Agamemnon

Agamemnon appears both in Iliad and Agamemnon. The Iliad deals with his quarrel with Achilles during the Trojan War where as Agamemnon tells the tragedy that goes around Agamamnon upon his return from Troy. This poem deals with the tragic backgrounds that was set up by adultry, revenge and death. And these events eventually leads to the pathetic death of Agamemnon. Agamemnon sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in exchange for favourable wids in front of Greek Army. When his wife, Clytemnesrta, knew what Agamemnon had done, she seeks to avenge her daughter's death. Meanwhile, Aegisthus looks for a chance to punish Agamemnon for the crimes of Agamemnon's father Atreus against his own father Thyestes. When Agamemnon was away to the war, he seduced Clytemnestra and planned with her to murder Agamemnon when he returns. While Agamemnon was in Troy, he took a concubine named Cassandra who is the captive daughter of King Priam. Eventually, Clytemnestra ends up killing Cassadra as well as Agamemnon, describing them as lovers. Her murder was justificed as a mother who lost her daughter and seeks for revenge or a wife to punished her husband who took a mistress. She wasn't aware of her own fault of having adulterous relationship with Aegisthus...