... to the Olympians, then to the Chthonians, and finally to Zeus, the Savior (Lebek 1-7). Clytaemestra corrupts the ritual sacrifice on several accounts. She offers blood rather than wine, sacrifices a king rather than an animal, and confuses the steps of ... consuming. Here Agamemnon drinks what he deserves: death. In lines 1435-37, Clytaemestra mentions that Aegisthus makes the fire burn on her hearth; again, while this is a simple metaphor for a household, it also brings to mind the fire that roasted ... the domestic sphere and the state. These spheres, which are closely linked to feminin...

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