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Clytaemnestra (Accius)
Clytaemnestra
Lost Roman tragedy by Lucius Accius, on the murder of Agamemnon; revived at Pompey's games of 55 BC, with six hundred mules in the procession.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 7.1 §2 six hundred mules in Clytaemnestra
Accius's lost tragedy, revived at the games with a triumphal procession of six hundred mules and three thousand mixing-bowls — the kind of stage-overload Cicero deplored.