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Agamemnon
By Aeschylus - Stage play
Roles
- Clytemnestra - Adult (36-50), Female
About this piece
Clytemnestra justifies her actions
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 Clytmenestra with the help of her lover Aegisthus. In this scene Clytemnestra has just killed Agamemnon and has dumped his body next to the alter. The Chorus criticizes her actions and in this monologue she describes the murder tries to justify it.
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