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... few years after the Trojan war, it is based around the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon....

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...Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her achieve her ends. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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...engeful destinies. At the beginning of the first part, the Trojan War has ended and the Greek general, Agamemnon, is returning victorious to his wife Clytemnestra. Yet she finds it difficult to forgive his sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, who was killed to ensure the Greek fleet fair winds in their voyage to Troy. Her desire for vengeance, and its dire consequences,...

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...ymene (clim ́-e-ne)...............................................................................................................................92 Clytemnestra (clit-em-nes ́-trah)..............................................................................................................93 Clytie (cli ́-ti-e)..............................................................

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...e beginning of the first book, Homer makes a comparison between Aegisthus, Clytemnestra’s lover, and Ulysses. He says that Aegisthus was crazy. Herme... ...s own madness and not the wise council sent to him by the god, first stole Clytemnestra from her legitimate husband, and then killed Agamemnon upon ... ...oy. Orestes vindicates his father by killing both Aegisthus and his mother Clytemnestra. The poem closes with the massacre of the Suitors, those who... ...ile to Mantinea, as other versions of the myth recount. He didn’t act like Clytemnestra did with Agamemnon, when he returned home from Troy. After h...

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...cate his father Agamemnon, killed by Aegisthus, conspiring with his mother Clytemnestra. But Orestes cannot decide. About twenty years go by and fi... ...around her as being wise and faithful. The only difference between her and Clytemnestra lies in the fact that the latter manages to actually kill he... ... the Achaeans must face so much loss and then ends up running blindly into Clytemnestra’s revenge and betrayal. Ajax dies a crazy man because they t... ...gamemnon in Hades and learn from him what had happened when he returned to Clytemnestra with all the arrogance of a king returning victoriously afte... ...p until this point there really is not much difference between Agamemnon’s Clytemnestra and Ulysses’ Penelope. One of them is consciously plotting he... ...nd he wants to usurp Agamemnon’s place as king. He therefore first seduces Clytemnestra and then they end up killing Agamemnon and together they rul... ... son Telemachus to the Suitors , without getting her own hands dirty, like Clytemnestra had done when she had Agamemnon killed? Once he had seen wit... ...enelope isn’t plotting to have him killed as soon as he gets to Ithaca, as Clytemnestra did? He must have had some major doubts, since when he lande...

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... by E. D. A. Morshead Dramatis Personae A WATCHMAN CHORUS OF ARGIVE ELDERS CLYTEMNESTRA, wife of AGAMEMNON A HERALD AGAMEMNON, King of Argos CASSANDRA... ...HORUS OF ARGIVE ELDERS enters, each leaning on a staff. During their song CLYTEMNESTRA appears in the background, kindling the altars. CHORUS singin... ... the garish day! But thou, O child of Tyndareus, Queen Clytemnestra, speak! and say What messenger of joy to day ... ...So prays the loyal, solitary band That guards the Apian land. They turn to CLYTEMNESTRA, who leaves the altars and comes forward. LEADER OF THE ... ...ine to shrine, I, fain to hear, yet grudge not if thou hide. Agamemnon 12 CLYTEMNESTRA As saith the adage, From the womb of Night Spring forth, with ... ...city ta’en! LEADER What say’st thou? doubtful heart makes treach’rous ear. CLYTEMNESTRA Hear then again, and plainly Troy is ours! LEADER Thrills thro... ...plainly Troy is ours! LEADER Thrills thro’ heart such joy as wakens tears. CLYTEMNESTRA Ay, thro’ those tears thine eye looks loyalty. LEADER But hast... ...ine eye looks loyalty. LEADER But hast thou proof, to make assurance sure? CLYTEMNESTRA Go to; I have unless the god has lied. LEADER Hath some night ... ...unless the god has lied. LEADER Hath some night vision won thee to belief? CLYTEMNESTRA Out on all presage of a slumb’rous soul! Aeschylus 13 LEADER ...

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...was but the vehicle, the soil in which the paternal seed was planted. When Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon, it was as if a common individual murdered ... ... it means that, ac- cording to the Greek conviction, Orestes was right and Clytemnestra entirely wrong. But for all that, the infallible King, the inf... ...ing, the infallible male Self, is dead in Orestes, killed by the furies of Clytemnestra. He gains his peace of mind after the revulsion from his own p... ...ike Agamemnon, he is blameless with regard to Gertrude. Yet Gertrude, like Clytemnestra, is the poten- tial murderer of her husband, as Lady Macbeth i...

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...n thing you ever saw?” she asked Ridley. “It seemed to me I’d known twenty Clytemnestras. Old Lady Ditchling for one. I don’t know a word of Greek, bu...

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...chest as if for the blow. He cannot strike the noble slumbering chieftain. Clytemnestra glides swiftly into the room like an apparition—her arms are b... ...mers were called by the whole house, which sounded with cries of “Manager! Clytemnestra!” Agamemnon could not be got to show in his classical tunic, b... ...of the performers of the little play. Mr. Bedwin Sands led on Zuleikah and Clytemnestra. A great personage insisted on being pre- sented to the charmi... ...temnestra. A great personage insisted on being pre- sented to the charming Clytemnestra. “Heigh ha? Run him through the body. Marry somebody else, hay...

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...was taking his ease quietly in the heart of Argos, cajoled Agamemnon’s wife Clytemnestra with incessant flattery. “At first she would have nothing to... ... ground reeking with our blood. I heard Priam’s daughter Cassandra scream as Clytemnestra killed her close beside me. I lay dying upon the earth with ... ...’s counsels. See how many of us fell for Helen’s sake, and now it seems that Clytemnestra hatched mischief against too during your absence.’ “‘Be sure...

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...chest as if for the blow. He cannot strike the noble slumbering chieftain. Clytemnestra glides swiftly into the room like an apparition—her arms are b... ...mers were called by the whole house, which sounded with cries of “Manager! Clytemnestra!” Agamemnon could not be got to show in his classical tunic, b... ...of the performers of the little play. Mr. Bedwin Sands led on Zuleikah and Clytemnestra. A great personage insisted on being pre- sented to the charmi... ...temnestra. A great personage insisted on being pre- sented to the charming Clytemnestra. “Heigh ha? Run him through the body. Marry somebody else, hay...

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... brooding chin: Glad along the joyous din Smiles the grand majestic ghost: Clytemnestra leads him in. 151 XIII Lo, their smoky limbs aloof, Shadowing...

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... on keeping her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in form and feature, in un derstan...

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...a cursed taste for war, And was not the best wife, unless we call Such Clytemnestra, though perhaps ‘t is better That one should die, than two...

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...ex, and blacken all the race; And should posterity one virtuous find, Name Clytemnestra, they will curse the kind.’ “Oh injured shade (I cried) what m...

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... at his return was barbarously murdered by Ægysthus, at the instigation of Clytemnestra his wife, who in his absence had dishonoured his bed with Ægys...

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...estroy the framework of the received legends— the fact, for instance, that Clytemnestra was slain by Orestes and Eriphyle by Alcmaeon but he ought to ...

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...y in her. It is at this point that this history begins. The youngest girl, Clytemnestra—called Clytie for short— was eleven; her sister, Gwendolen—cal... ...ny months Adelbert and Hosannah had been showing interest in Gwendolen and Clytemnestra Foster, and the parents of the girls had noticed this with pri...

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... ters, not as mere varieties or echoes of masculine characters, a Medea or Clytemnestra, or a vindictive Hecuba, the mere tigress of the tragic tiger,...

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...nd set on fire; How cursed Eriphyle her lord betray’d, And the dire ambush Clytemnestra laid; But what most pleased him was the Cretan dame And husban...

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...Diana,” said Ethel, “and bore the victim away.” “Pray, was Daisy a willing Clytemnestra?” asked Meta. “Oh, yes, she liked it,” said Aubrey, while Meta...