Fact Check: Clytemnestra kills Agamemnon in Aeschylus

It argues that Clytemnestra's actions can be justified, particularly emphasizing Agamemnon's morally reprehensible sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis, likening his act to other historical sacrifices depicted in literature. The paper concludes that Agamemnon's actions contribute significantly to the justification for Clytemnestra's drastic response. ... Using Aristotle's Ethical and Political Works to Understand the Characters and Plot of Aeschylus' Agamemnon

Agamemnon is the first play in Aeschylus' trilogy about the chain of murders which took place in the family of Agamemnon after the conclusion of the Trojan War. In Agamemnon, Clytemnestra kills her husband, the title character. In the second play of the trilogy, The Libation-Bearers, their ...

In order to arrive at the war site, Agamemnon had to let his daughter be slaughtered or face scrutiny as a king who had failed to get his men to battle. For this action, Clytemnestra kills him in turn, as well as Cassandra, a Trojan princess ...

In Greek mythology, Clytemnestra is the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. With Agamemnon, she is the mother of Iphigenia, Orestes, Electra, and Chrysothemis. She appears as a character in multiple ancient Greek works, including the Homeric epics and plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. She is infamous for murdering ...

In The Libation Bearers (Χοηφόροι, Choēphóroi)—the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy—many years after the murder of Agamemnon, his son Orestes returns to Argos with his cousin Pylades to exact vengeance on Clytemnestra, as an order from Apollo, for killing Agamemnon.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (/æɡəˈmɛmnɒn/ ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War. He was the son (or grandson) of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and ...

Florence Mary Bennett Anderson, The Character of Clytemnestra in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus, Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 60, 1929

In Greek mythology Clytemnestra was the unfaithful wife of Agamemnon, the commander of the Greek army that fought in the Trojan War. In his absence Clytemnestra became the lover of Aegisthus, and the pair murdered Agamemnon on his return to Greece.

Agamemnon tells him about his murder and warns him not to trust women too easily. He also praises Penelope, whose loyalty is the opposite of Clytemnestra’s betrayal. Agamemnon’s judgment is shaped by his own violent death. The wider myth, however, gives Clytemnestra motives that his bitter account does not fully consider, especially the sacrifice of Iphigenia.