[grey_whiskers]

A. You keep misspelling “Clytemnestra.”

I wish I could say it was just a grey moment, but really it's more like selective dyslexia.

I read it that way as a child and remembered it that way: and even when I Googled her name to double check on what her husband's name was, while working on this piece, I stored the name in my mind without the "t".

Kind of like the time in college I misread a traffic sign as "Hideous Entrance."

Thanks for the gentle reminder.

B. Agamemnon asked for it.

For her having a counter-affair, or for his death...?

(Think of Bill Clinton, or for that matter Newt Gingrich.)

Cheers!

[Tax-chick]

For her having a counter-affair, or for his death...?

I think her relationship with his cousin was simply an assertion of power, but the murder was payback for Agamemnon's sacrificing their daughter, at least according to some versions of the story. In the play, he simply walks in with his concubine in tow and finds it unremarkable, expected, that his wife would meet him with open arms. Talk about overconfidence ...