Great Books Ep 61. Aeschylus - Agamemnon, Part 1. Sacrifice and Suffering: The Cost of Victory

It is heartbreaking to have to sacrifice something deeply personal for the sake of duty to a group. The personal cost of extraordinary voyages and victory is sometimes hidden and unknown.

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“What choice is here, where all is ill?” he cried; “Am I to leave the vessels to their fate? Am I to lose the friends with me allied? Lo, now a sacrifice which shall abate Storm-winds with blood of victim virginal Law sanctions; they press hard; then God mend all!”

~ ‘Agamemnon’ by Aeschylus (G. M. Cookson translatio…