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Clytemnestra Hesitating Before Killing the Sleeping Agamemnon

Aegisthus

person

/ee-JISS-thus/

The man who murdered King Agamemnon when he came home from the war. The poem uses him as a warning.

埃癸斯托斯·趁阿伽门农战后归家时将其谋杀的人,诗中以他为反面警示。

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