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Clytemnestra's Revenge In Oresteia
Aeschylus’ trilogy, Oresteia, presents the audience with one of Clytemnestra’s reasons for murdering Agamemnon: as revenge for the sacrificial murder of her daughter, Iphigenia. Clytemnestra’s revenge is rooted in her motherly love for her children however, readers of the trilogy notice there is a strange confliction between her actions and intentions towards her children. For example, she vowed to avenge her daughter’s murder, but later goes on to put a curse on her son, Orestes. Likewise throughout the trilogy, especially in Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers, Clytemnestra is criticized for her masculinity by overstepping her womanly boundaries, by acting as a king, while Agamemnon was abroad. Clytemnestra’s actions towards her children along
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