The Chorus also tells us that in order to persuade the goddess Artemis to allow his fleet to pass, Agamemnon sacrificed his and Clytemnestra’s daughter, Iphigenia.Ĭlytemnestra enters and the Chorus asks why fires of sacrifice are being lit around the palace. Paris stole Menelaus’ wife Helen, and as a result Menelaus and Agamemnon led a fleet to Troy to avenge the insult. Menelaus is the brother of Agamemnon, who is Clytemnestra’s husband and the king of Argos. The Chorus, a group of elderly men too old to have fought in the war, come out and explain that the Trojan War began out of a feud between Paris, the Trojan prince, and Menelaus, the Greek king. He sees the fire light and rushes out to tell queen Clytemnestra the good news. A Watchman, stationed on top of the palace, waits for a signal fire indicating that the ten-year Trojan War (between the Greeks and the Trojans) has come to an end. The play is set sometime in the 12th or 13th centuries BCE, and begins in Argos, Greece.
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