Kostas Karras credited as playing...
Menelaos
- Menelaos: Power is a weapon to help not ourselves, but the others, those that have given it to us. Otherwise, it is in unworthy hands.
- Agamemnonas: Guilt! It is the mother of impudence.
- Menelaos: And the disorganized mind is the mother of treason.
- Menelaos: This is how politics is. Few are those that reach the top and don't stumble. The big responsibilities need brains and strong shoulders!
- Menelaos: I cry for Greece. When all her youth rise to fight for her honor, you - bring her to her knees. When are we going to learn that a commander's value is what really counts - and not his ancestry.
- Menelaos: Odysseus does not dare to go against us.
- Agamemnonas: He dares and he can and he will do it. He has been fighting for such a chance all this time. He won't lose it. Or, do you think he will take pity on us? He will proclaim loudly to the army that I betrayed both Greece and them. And if he rattles the beast, heads will roll.
- Agamemnonas: You won.
- Menelaos: No. I don't want you to kill for me - and rebuild my life upon your own laments. Besides, your child is also my blood. When the knife falls - how can I stand in front out there, a spectator? Me, who is responsible. It is not your child's fault for my own marriage, for my own insult. Listen to me. You will dissolve the army. Now I ask you this as a favor. For both of us.
- Agamemnonas: The hatred between the brothers is an open wound. Poison! Your words have healed it. But now there are no more bridges behind us. There is no turning back.
- Menelaos: Who can force you to kill your child?
- Agamemnonas: The army. The thousand-headed monster that I govern.
- Menelaos: Where are you going?
- Agamemnonas: Somewhere, somewhere to wait. Somewhere far away so that they don't see me - and I don't see them.