... her husband and betraying him was a crime punishable by death as the gods would not accept such a horrible act. She ignores them and after the festivities are complete, she prepares a bath for Agamemnon while Orestes is seen talking to his father about the war and the many battles he fought. The chorus are again talking about how this is surely the ... seen concealing a small knife behind her back as she walks him in. As the night dawns, Orestes is approached by a messenger that his father has been found murdered. He runs bath and sees his father's dead body. He immediately searches for...

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... oblivious to the hate of his wife and her lover. He is brutally murdered while bathing in his own tub. Clytemnestra describes the bloody homicide. "Helpless and naked in his bath, I cast the rich robes about him, netted him, held him fast, and I pushed a blade of iron through the silk." (p.42) The great king of Argos and victor of the Trojan ... ...

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