Bed-mate to Blood-mate: Agamemmnon Slaughtered by Wife Clytemnestra

Beloved war hero Agamemnon was found dead beside his mistress Cassandra, murdered by his wife Clytemnesta. Clytemnestra was revealed standing over the bodies of Agamemnon and the prophetess. Said Clytemnestra of her guilt, "this is the bloodgrudge, the grudge's frution, something I have brooded on quite a long time. I've done what I meant to. I wouldn't deny it."

Agamemnon was the father to children Electra and Orestes, and also Iphigenia, who he sacrificed to Artemis to obtain favorable wind for the Greek fleet before the war.

The Chorus found that this was the motive for Clytemnestra's murderous ways. She reffered to her dead husband as "this murderer here", and proclaimed "...he butchered his she-child, the she-child I labored to launch on her lifelot... You should have banished him."

Clytemnestra acted with a partner, her lover and cousin to Agamemnon, Aegisthus, who himself held a grudge against the deceased. Agamemnon's father, Atreus, fed Thystes, Aegisthus' father, Thystes' own children as "the daintiest tidbits...childstew." Both acted out of revenge.

The couple recieved threats from the Chorus that Clytemnestra and Agamemnon's only son, Orestes, would come to "kill this couple, our bloodgrudge-fulfiller."

Clytemnestra and Aegisthus were last seen entering the house of Atreus.

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