So the Blessed Ones have granted to our prince to capture Priam’s town; and, divinely-honored, he returns to his home. Yet if he now must pay the penalty for the blood shed by others before him, and by dying for the deadhe is to bring to pass retribution of other deathsIf Agamemnon is now to pay the price for his father’s killing of Thyestes’ children, and by his own death is to atone for his slaying of Iphigenia, and is thus to bring about requital consisting in yet other deaths (Clytaemestra and Aegisthus)., what mortal man, on hearing this, can boast that he was born with scatheless destiny? A shriek is heard from within Agamemnon Alas! I am struck deep with a mortal blow!