By Christos Tsagkaris
He must have stayed up there for years waiting for the arrival of the ships. When he saw them, he ran all the way down to inform everybody; the first to run to the port in order to welcome the king. His master’s joy was his own. But everything went wrong and the king died that very night, murdered by his own wife.
Years and years passed and the only one who was left was the guard. I could see him every night digging the darkness, seeking for a chance to warn the king to stay away from that perilous place.
Great imagery in the phrase “…digging the darkness…”
Thank you!
Great angle, but I don’t get what the guard’s doing after the murder. Can’t be anything to do with the avenging kids because it’s still about Agamemnon. Hades doesn’t make sense because you don’t dig to get there. Flummoxed, and wish it was that little bit clearer because it’s memorable otherwise.
I love the different POV on an old myth. I thought it was Clytemnestra’s lover who murdered Agamemnon and it turns out there’s a few versions and I just found one of my old Greek mythology books, so thanks for that too. There’s just the right hint of sadness in there, too.