... the death of their father was justified because he had killed their sister. I wonder why they would rather be against their mother "I despise her she deserves it" says Electra as Orestes her brother claims that their father was a great hero. All the while I"m reading their conversation I wonder if it occurred to them that just as Iphigeneia was killed they could have ... it seems as if they never thought about it because they plan to avenge their father's murder. They plan and follow through the murder of Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Orestes unlike Clytaemnestra, he takes time...

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... then tells the stories of the return home of various heroes, including Agamemnon and Menelaus. Agamemnon was murdered on his return home by Aegisthus, his wife's lover, and Nestor praises Orestes, Agamemnon's son, who avenges his father's murder by killing Aegisthus. Telemachus wishes to have similar strength so that he might take revenge on his mother's suitors. Nestor suggests that Telemachus ... ...

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... . Great Nestor told me a story of Agamemnon, and how he came back from Troy only to find Aegisthus married to his wife, Clytemnestra, and then Aegisthus killed him. Agamemnon's son, Orestes, who had been in exile in Athens, came back to Mycenae and took revenge for his father's and killed Aegisthus and his mother, Clytemnestra. With his advice, and maybe some ... ...

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