A replica of the Agamemnon Death Mask hangs in the Pettengill Hall office of Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies Lisa Maurizio. “When I look at the mask,” she says, “I think of the ...

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Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy “Agamemnon,” the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture funded by an ...

A busy scene on Elm Street in downtown Dallas. Contributor Patrick B. Whalen says our hustle culture could learn a thing or two from Homer's ancient anti-hero Agamemnon. Staff / The Dallas Morning ...