The deceptive Clytemnestra of the Electra by Euripides Agamemnon returns from Troy, a victorious general, bringing home spoils, riches and fame. He is murdered the same day he returns. Clytemnestra, the adulterous wife, awaited her husband's return and killed him while he was bathing after the long journey. During Agamemnon, much of the queen's words justify her action, which is very much about sacrificing Iphigenia to the gods, in order for the fleet to sail to Troy. Aegisthus, Queen Clytemnestra's new husband and accomplice in the conspiracy to kill the war hero, had reasons that stemmed from the dispute between the houses of Atreus and Thyestes. Was murder a justified punishment for the callous and impartial killing of an innocent girl, as well as the fate demanded by the family curse? Or was Agamemnon's death an unjust action on the part of the traitorous Clytemnestra and her lover carried out with aspirations of wealth and power? If we take the first of the arguments as correct, then we must consider the sacrifice of Iphigenia. For this reason, the only sources we have are those of the Chorus' songs and the highly biased accounts of Clytemnestra, who was left to brood over her hatred for over ten years. The Chorus' story is full of pathos and pity: "the sweet curved lips...gag her hard...his gaze...wounding every murderer" (235-239). They remember with pain, a flashback of her innocent life, and tell how she once "sang to save Zeus - paralyzed with joy" 245. The emphasis is very much on the girl's purity and how she did not deserve to die. However, the Chorus makes no reference to the fact that it was Agamemnon's... the medium of paper... would have been a sponge. It's ironic, I suppose that Agamemnon, lord of men, was brought down by the one thing neither son of Atreus could control: Women.Works CitedAdkins, AWH, Merit and Responsibility. A Study in Greek Values, London: Oxford University Press, 1960. Euripides. Electra. Trans. Philip Vellacott. Medea and other comedies. Baltimore: Penguin Classics, 1963. 105-152, 201-204. Nietzsche, Friedrich. The birth of tragedy. Trans. Clifton Fadimann. New York: Dover Publications, 1995.Perseus Encyclopedia. Revised 1999. Tufts University. .Powell, Anton, ed. Euripides, Women and sexuality. New York: Routledge, 1990. March, Jennifer. Euripides the misogynist? Euripides, Women and sexuality. Ed. Anton Powell. New York: Routledge, 1990.