Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.

  1. by a weapon of double edge wielded by the hand of your own wife!
Clytaemestra
  1. Do you affirm this deed is mine? Do not imagine that I am Agamemnon’s spouse.
  2. A phantom resembling that corpse’s wife, the ancient bitter evil spirit of Atreus, that grim banqueter, has offered him in payment, sacrificing a full-grown victim in vengeance for those slain babes.