The play Agamemnon, a Greek playwright written by Aeschylus, starts out after the fall of Troy at the palace of King Agamemnon. A watchman watching for a flare in the distance spots a light in the distance, signaling that the end of the war has finally come after many years. After the King comes home, the chorus (high authorities I think?) talks about the war and about the fact that it was fought over a woman. Around this time, the chorus is doubting whether or not the signal flare was true or not, but soon a messenger comes along and confirms the word. This is when Agamemnon comes back to his palace on a chariotand his wife, Clytaemestra, comes out to greet him and pledge her love to him after supposedly missing him for so long. In fact, shes so glad to see him that she rolls out a carpet in front of their home as if to treat him like a god. He refuses, stating that hes only a man, not a god. After begging him repeatedly, he follows her into their home where she kills him along with the Trojan princess Cassandra that he brought back with him. She shows no sign of remorse and the chorus is appalled by her degree of brutality.It is evident now that Clytaemestra had been hiding her anger towards Agamemnon for sacrificing their daughter years before at the start of the war as a sacrifice to the gods. Clytaemestra tries to justify her action as righteous and ok by the gods. The chorus refuses to hear any of it and they wonder how to mourn their dead king. At this point, she declares that the death of Agamemnon shall not be mourned at all. The chorus now wonders if Cytaemestras actions indeed were justified, or what she did was motivated by a human desire for revenge. In the end and having no other choice, the chorus agrees with Clyaemestra. Soon Aegisthus, Clyaemestras secret lover, bursts onto the scene admitting that he had devised the plot to murder Agamemnon in revenge for his father. He also admits at this point to slee...
