Mycenaean Rhapsody

Genre/Style: Queen

Touchstones: Queen, “My Fairy King,” “March of the Black Queen,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Prophet’s Song,” “You Take My Breath Away,” “The Millionaire Waltz”

Themes:

Myth: The Oresteia

Work: Aeschylus’ Oresteia (458 BCE)

Read the plays in Ancient Greek
Read Lattimore's 1953 English translation at Archive.org
Read the dual language version (ed. Smyth, English trans. Johnston, edition eds. Hayes and Nimis