“AT THE speed of light, Hephaestus’s sacred fire/ Blazed from beacon tower to beacon tower.” Thus, according to Aeschylus, spake Clytemnestra, an ancient queen of Mycenae, explaining how she received tidings that her husband Agamemnon was on his way home from the Trojan war. Perhaps Agamemnon would have done better to have turned up unannounced. The news left the queen and her lover just enough time to plot the cuckold’s assassination.
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