ARTICLE
TITLE

The Bond of Consanguinity between Mother and Daughter: Agamemnon 1417–1418 and 1525

SUMMARY

Clytemnestra’s claim of the unique force of the mother-daughter bond is meant to justify her murder of Agamemnon, but it simultaneously reveals the contradictoriness of her position as wife as well as mother.

PAGES
pp. 342 - 351
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History

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