An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides

by Anne Carson

KLYTAIMESTRA : Don’t squawk at me. I’m not some witless female. I am fearless and you know it. Whether you praise or blame me I don’t care. Here lies Agamemnon, my husband, a dead body, work of my righteous right hand. That’s how things stand.