Excerpt from The Klytaimestra of the Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Meanwhile, after Iphigeneia had been offered up, the Greeks obtained a favorable breeze, Agamemnon moved now against Trov as the commander of the expedition, but his queen, Klytaimestra, who remained at home in Argos, committed adultery with Aigisthus, another son of Thyestes, and together with him laid plans that she should slay her husband, upon his liomeireturn from Troy. She gave orders that a look-out should be kept upon the palace-roof since that was agreed upon previously that when Troy had been sacked, a fire should be lighted and passed on from island to island across the Aegean Sea, so that the glad tidings should as speedily as possible be brought to Argos. The drama - Agamemnon begins, then, with the warder upon the palace-roof keeping watch, indulging in a fine, and edifying soliloquy. He is weary of continuously observing the heavens and the stars. may there come now, a welcome surcease from my pains, and may the fire of the night which brings the glad tidings.

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