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Number: 100 The Agamemnon Notebook
ca 1922 NYPL Woolf's extraordinary hand-made "edition" of the Greek text of Aeschylus's Agamemnon, with an annotated transcription of the Verrall translation.

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Read Christina Testa's chapter The Annotations on the Greek verses.
This large notebook is presented in two parts.

Remarks

Images 3 -13 blank. Image 17 - Greek technical term in Greek backgammon - I will score it to my account or I will play according to my throw. Image 30/31 - typed and folded paper tucked into book fold. Image 79 - typed and folded paper tucked into book fold, printed Argamemnon. Image 101 - VW writes change by me Clyt: Did you vow to the gods, in come fear to do this? Image 104 - [It is to the eye of the Queen as tho' he had already walked in blood...no commentary can exhaust the significance of this... scene with spectacular writing...has probably never been rivalled Verrall] Verrall translation. Image 111 - typed and folded paper tucked into book fold. Image 124 - passage describes how Argamemnon's father, Atreus, kills his brothers children then cooks them and feeds his brother with them. Image 134 - Agamemnon calls out from backstage that he has been mortally struck. Image 136 - Clytemnestra's confession to murder. Image 143 - typed and folded paper tucked into book fold. Image 153 - VW writes in Greek. Image 166 to end blank, however, images 175,177 &178 have typed and folded paper tucked into book fold. Image 191 - Harrill 10/22/67. Image 193 - 78pp in VW's head.

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