Agamemnon

Roles

• Clytmenestra - Adult (36-50), Female

About this piece

Clytemnestra welcomes Agamemnon home

Summary

The story of the play focuses on the revenge by Clytemnestra on her husband Agamemnon. Agamemnon is the King of Argos and one of the generals in the Trojan war against Troy. Clytemnestra awaits for the return of her husband from the war so that she can kill him for having sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia during the war. When Agamemnon and his concubine Cassandra come back from the war they are eventually killed by Clytemnestra with the help of her lover Aegisthus. In this scene King Agamemnon has just arrived to Argos on his chariot with his mistress Cassandra. After the Chorus praises him for winning the war, Clytmemnestra greets him and welcomes him home. In this monologue she declares her love for him and describes the pain that she suffered for the last ten years while she was waiting for her husband to come back from the war and had to hear countless horrible rumors about him getting wounded or killed.

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