Agamemnon and his return

... (915-18). Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon continue their argument and in the end Clytaemnestra has the best of him. “O give way! The power is yours if you surrender, all of your own free will, to me!.” Agamemnon (938-39). Agamemnon then gives way, removes his boots and strides across the crimson tapestries. This shows how the Greeks attitude towards woman are of one where they are tricksters and not able to be trusted, “And where’s the woman in all this lust for glory?”; Agamemnon (935). In this scene we see this in how Clytaemnestra convinces him that he must look strong to the people and is able to sway his belief that the right to walk on a path of crimson is reserved for the gods. This scene also shows how Greeks view men. ...

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