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Agamemnon (1460-1485)

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because of blood not to be washed away. Truly in those days strife, an affliction that has subdued its lord, dwelt in the house.
1462
Clytaemestra
Do not burden yourself with thoughts such as these, nor invoke upon yourself the fate of death. Nor yet turn your wrath upon Helen,
and deem her a slayer of men, as if she alone had destroyed many a Danaan life and had wrought anguish past all cure.
1468
1
Chorus
O Fiend who falls upon this house and Tantalus’ two descendants,[*]
you who by the hands of women exert a rule matching their temper, a rule bitter to my soul! Perched over his body like a hateful raven, in hoarse notes she chants her song of triumph.
1475
Clytaemestra
Now you have corrected the judgment of your lips in that you name the thrice-gorged Fiend of this race. For by him the lust for lapping blood is fostered in the mouth; so before
the ancient wound is healed, fresh blood is spilled.
1481
2
Chorus
Truly you speak of a mighty Fiend, haunting the house, and heavy in his wrath (alas, alas!)—an evil tale of catastrophic fate insatiate;
woe, woe, done by will of Zeus, author of all, worker of all! For what is brought to pass for mortal men save by will of Zeus? What herein is not wrought of god?

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