Agamemnon

I liked reading the Greek tragedies that I read in high school, I read Oedipus and Antigone. Agamemnon is hard to get through because the chorus talks for longs periods of time. Even a live performance of this play would be difficult to keep paying attention to because there would be no action happening on stage, basically just the chorus lecturing the audience on past events. I'm not sure how I feel about Clytemnestra. She is a strong character, and is continually compared to a man, which is seems in Greek history and social society would be a positive thing, however, she is head strong and selfish and will do anything to get what she, regardless of whether or not it is good for the country. It is crazy to think though that Agamemnon, he husband, was gone for 10 years! Most people would have moved on, but i guess during ancient wars it was more common for men to be gone long periods of time.