... her husband Agamemnon. Deviously, she lures her prey to the trap with the red robes upon which he is made to walk, and when he is in the water taking a bath, she traps him and takes her axe upon him. If this sounds like an animal being hunted with the use of a net, it is by no means an accident on ... the victory is directly related to his argument. He explains how his "black hearted mother cut him [Agamemnon] down, enveloped him in her handsome net [for] his murder in the bath," (Eum. 474). It also helped Orestes" case that the god Apollo was arguing for his side, and that his argument...

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... 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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... would avenge her daughter's death and get him back for staying away for so long, leaving her to rule their city. While Agamemnon was bathing, Clytemnestra trapped him in his bath robes and killed him with an axe. When she was caught of her crime, the chorus demanded she be exiled and shunned of all men because of her crime. She ... ...

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... . Xenia demands that a woman should show hospitality to strangers in her house. Conflict arises Clytemnestra violates Xenia by not showing hospitality to her own husband and decides to use the bath to kill him. Her adultery also falls within the circumstances determining the xenia (Knox 17). Foley (19) argues that women are expected to take the role of proper wives. Clytemnestra ... ...

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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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