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In Greek poetry, the story of Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War is dramatized by Aeschylus in the Oresteia. Agamemnon has gone to war to fight for the return of Helen, who was taken by Paris, the Prince of Troy. All of the Greeks leave to wage war on Troy, and Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, is left at home to await the return of her husband. In his triumphant return to the city, there is a …

…where you can see the bad guy behind the door and you want to yell "look out" to the characters on the screen, you could see this coming and could only wait to see how Agamemnon would respond to Clytemnestra's hints. Yet in this, I almost feel as though Agamemnon deserved it for the murder of his own daughter. Agamemnon should have paid more attention to the warnings about the fury of a woman scorned.