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[409] Αἴγισθος. The Homeric version makes Aegisthus the murderer, and the scene of the murder a banquet. Aeschylus and Euripides represent Agamemnon as slain by Clytaemnestra in the bath. But at any rate, even here Clytaemnestra is the accomplice, as “σὺν οὐλομένῃ ἀλόχῳ” shows.

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