... 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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... 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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