She also kills Cassandra, who has foreseen her death but is resigned to it. She slaughters him when he is most vulnerable, after he has bathed and has no weapon, no armor. When Agamemnon appears outside the royal house of Argos, he has brought with him the Trojan priestess, Cassandra, as a slave-so we know his attitude to the gods is blasphemous at best.Ĭlytemnestra tricks Agamemnon into entering their palace walking across priceless tapestries, again the behavior of a man who believes himself equal to the gods. She has spent ten years planning her revenge for Agamemnon’s murder of their daughter Iphigenia, whom he sacrificed to the goddess Artemis to obtain her favor and fair winds to sail to Troy. It begins with Clytemnestra awaiting her husband’s victorious return from the Trojan war. Aeschylus presents the most compelling version of Clytemnestra in his play, Agamemnon.
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