... 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, avenging his father's murder is all-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 than Clytemnestra's. Secondly, Medea is not dependant on any other character for her dramatic significance. She appear...

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