Putin and Agamemnon Putin reminds me a bit of Agamemnon in the play of Aeschylus: Agamemnon returns victorious to his home city Argos from the despoliation of Troy, bearing with him in his boat the daughter of the king & queen of Troy, the prophetess Cassandra to serve as his concubine. Agamemnon is puffed up More

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