Themes in Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Iphigenia
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Betrayal
Yeah, there's no getting around the fact that this myth is chock full of some pretty serious betrayals. First, there's Agamemnon who betrays his daughter, Iphigenia, by offering her up as a sacrifi...
Revenge
When Clytemnestra stabs Agamemnon to death for sacrificing Iphigenia she wreaks a pretty awful revenge. What makes the myth interesting (to us anyway) is that to her, it isn't really revenge at all...