... stands up against her husband in the most ghastly manner. ( Ghastly' of course from the perspective of male chauvinists!) The fact that she launches an intense protest against her husband Agamemnon's cruel decision to sacrifice their daughter Iphigenia holds no ground to the Greek audience and the other characters of the play. Her own son Orestes later kills her. To him ... -important and the hideous crime of matricide is only secondary! So much so that Athene , the daughter of Zeus, successfully persuades the Furies to pardon Orestes. It is as if Agamemnon's life holds greater worth tha...

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