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* MoralMyopia: Clytemnestra is happy to cheat on her husband with Aegisthus, but is so outraged when he does the same with his SexSlave Cassandra that she murders her.
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The ancient Greek play ''Agamemnon'' is the first of a series of [[{{Tragedy}} tragedies]] in the trilogy ''Theatre/TheOresteia'' by Creator/{{Aeschylus}}.
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The ancient Greek play ''Agamemnon'' is the first of a series of [[{{Tragedy}} tragedies]] in the trilogy ''Theatre/TheOresteia'' by Creator/{{Aeschylus}}.
Creator/{{Aeschylus}}. The story is based on the aftermath of the Trojan War from [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]].
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: The story is based on the aftermath of the Trojan War from Greek mythology.
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* BystanderSyndrome: Agamemnon cries for help from inside the palace (i.e. offstage). The Chorus reacts thus.
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* BystanderSyndrome: Agamemnon cries for help from inside the palace (i.e. offstage). The Chorus reacts thus.stands around arguing about whether they should do something and if there's anything they can do until it's too late to do anything.
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* {{Doublespeak}}: Many of Clytemnestra's speeches have double meanings.
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* {{Doublespeak}}: Many of Clytemnestra's speeches have double meanings.meanings, including a speech about how happy she is that Agamemnon is returning alive which foreshadows her intention to murder him, and references to her absent child which are ostensibly about her living son Orestes, who is being fostered in another city, but also apply equally to the dead Iphigenia.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Despite being the character of the title, Agamemnon isn't given much action (aside from his murder) and the true protagonists is Clytemnestra.
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* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Despite being the character of the title, Agamemnon isn't given much action (aside from his murder) and the true protagonists protagonist is Clytemnestra.
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I Ate What clean up. The trope is when a character eats something, unaware of what they are consuming, and then reacts in disgust after they find out what it is. Misuse will be deleted or moved to another trope when applicable. Administrivia.Zero Context Examples will be removed or commented out depending on the amount of context within the entry.
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* RoyallyScrewedUp: The Atreides were the poster guys of this trope in Myth/ClassicalMythology. All the madness started with Tantalus [[OffingTheOffspring serving his own son]] [[IAteWhat to the gods]] to prove they're not omniscient, continued with the feud between brothers [[CainAndAbel Atreus and Thyestes]], and know the feud continues with their respective sons Agamemnon and Aegisthus.
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* RoyallyScrewedUp: The Atreides were the poster guys of this trope in Myth/ClassicalMythology. All the madness started with Tantalus [[OffingTheOffspring serving his own son]] [[IAteWhat to the gods]] gods to prove they're not omniscient, continued with the feud between brothers [[CainAndAbel Atreus and Thyestes]], and know the feud continues with their respective sons Agamemnon and Aegisthus.
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* BystanderSyndrome: Agamemnon cries for help from inside the palace (i.e. off-screen). The Chorus reacts thus.
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* BystanderSyndrome: Agamemnon cries for help from inside the palace (i.e. off-screen).offstage). The Chorus reacts thus.
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* DyingCurse: The chorus describes how Iphegenia tried to desperately curse her family before she was killed, but had a bit forced in her mouth so as to stop her from polluting her own sacrifice.
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* DyingCurse: The chorus describes how Iphegenia Iphigenia tried to desperately curse her family before she was killed, but had a bit forced in her mouth so as to stop her from polluting her own sacrifice.
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* GetItOverWith: Not directly to the person who kills her (due to her death being offscreen), but Cassandra, knowing she is going to die, addresses the underworld to pray that she is killed quickly and easily.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The chorus talks a lot about the Trojan war as a backdrop for the story, but it of course doesn't appear on-screen (not that there wasn't other media at the time that did portray it on-screen).
* GreatOffscreenWar: The chorus talks a lot about the Trojan war as a backdrop for the story, but it of course doesn't appear on-screen (not that there wasn't other media at the time that did portray it on-screen).
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* GetItOverWith: Not directly to the person who kills her (due to her death being offscreen), offstage), but Cassandra, knowing she is going to die, addresses the underworld to pray that she is killed quickly and easily.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The chorus talks a lot about the Trojanwar War as a backdrop for the story, but it of course doesn't appear on-screen onstage (not that there wasn't other media at the time that did portray it on-screen).onstage).
* GreatOffscreenWar: The chorus talks a lot about the Trojan
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* HistoricalFantasy: Archaeologists have found there was a real Agamemnon. Whether he was killed by his cousin and avenged by his children (as well as whether Atreus was as evil as depicted in Myth/ClassicalMythology or subjected to a HistoricalVillainUpgrade) cannot be known.
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* HistoricalFantasy: Archaeologists have found circumstantial evidence that there was a real Agamemnon. Whether he was killed by his cousin and avenged by his children (as well as whether Atreus was as evil as depicted in Myth/ClassicalMythology or subjected to a HistoricalVillainUpgrade) cannot be known.
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* KilledOffscreen: Agamemnon and Cassandra, due to the nature of Greek staging not allowing for on-screen murders.
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* KilledOffscreen: Agamemnon and Cassandra, due to the nature of Greek staging not allowing for on-screen onstage murders.
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* SoundOnlyDeath: Agamemnon dies offscreen, and we only hear him saying he has been hit. Cassandra doesn't even say anything.
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* SoundOnlyDeath: Agamemnon dies offscreen, offstage, and we only hear him saying he has been hit. Cassandra doesn't even say anything.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Clytemnestra cheats on Agamemnon with his cousin Aegisthus, while Agamemnon himself has taken Cassandra as his concubine, [[DoubleStandard but guess which adulterer is treated less sympathetically]]. Clytemnestra also points out how Agamemnon has been taking plenty of concubines, like Chryseis, while he was at Troy.
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* NobleBirdOfPrey: Bird symbolism is used throughout the play.
* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon and convinces him to step on a carpet to celebrate his victory in Troy despite Agamemnon's misgivings, symbolizing her later offstage murder of Agamemnon.
* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon and convinces him to step on a carpet to celebrate his victory in Troy despite Agamemnon's misgivings, symbolizing her later offstage murder of Agamemnon.
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* TheOphelia: Subverted. The Elders ''think'' Cassandra is one of these and treat her as a madwoman at first, but then
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* NobleBirdOfPrey: Bird symbolism is used throughout the play.
* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon and convinces him to step on a carpet to celebrate his victory in Troy despite Agamemnon's misgivings, symbolizing her later offstage murder of Agamemnon.
she starts talking about the RoyallyScrewedUp story of Argos as if she had been there...
* NobleBirdOfPrey: Bird symbolism is used throughout the play.
* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon and convinces him to step on a carpet to celebrate his victory in Troy despite Agamemnon's misgivings, symbolizing her later offstage murder of Agamemnon.
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* TheOphelia: Subverted. The Elders ''think'' Cassandra is one of these and treat her as a madwoman at first, but then
then she starts talking about the RoyallyScrewedUp story of Argos as if she had been there...
* NobleBirdOfPrey: Bird symbolism is used throughout the play.
* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon and convinces him to step on a carpet to celebrate his victory in Troy despite Agamemnon's misgivings, symbolizing her later offstage murder of Agamemnon.there...
* NobleBirdOfPrey: Bird symbolism is used throughout the play.
* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon and convinces him to step on a carpet to celebrate his victory in Troy despite Agamemnon's misgivings, symbolizing her later offstage murder of Agamemnon.
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* TheOphelia: Subverted. The Elders ''think'' Cassandra is one of these and treat her as a madwoman at first, but then she starts talking about the RoyallyScrewedUp story of Argos as if she had been there...
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* TheOphelia: Subverted. The Elders ''think'' Cassandra is one of these and treat her as a madwoman at first, but then then
she starts talking about the RoyallyScrewedUp story of Argos as if she had been there...
she starts talking about the RoyallyScrewedUp story of Argos as if she had been there...
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* NonViolentInitialConfrontation: Clytemnestra confronts Agamemnon and convinces him to step on a carpet to celebrate his victory in Troy despite Agamemnon's misgivings, symbolizing her later offstage murder of Agamemnon.
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* CassandraTruth: The original one, since it comes from the TropeNamer.
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* CassandraTruth: The original one, since it comes from the TropeNamer. She tells the chorus exactly what's going to happen, but they of course don't believe her.
* ElectiveMute: Cassandra just straight-up refuses to talk the entire time she and Clytemnestra are on stage together.
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* KilledOffscreen: Agamemnon and Cassandra, due to the naturee of Greek staging not allowing for on-screen murders.
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* KilledOffscreen: Agamemnon and Cassandra, due to the naturee nature of Greek staging not allowing for on-screen murders.
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* MeaningfulName: The chorus says that Helen has one, because it is close to the Greek word for "destruction" and that's what she brought everyone through the Trojan war.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathHaveBeenGreatlyExaggerated: Clytemnestra tells Agamemnon that she has heard many false reports of his death during the war.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathHaveBeenGreatlyExaggerated: ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Clytemnestra tells Agamemnon that she has heard many false reports of his death during the war.
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* TillMurderDoUsPart: Clytemnestra kills her husband, Agamemnon.
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* TillMurderDoUsPart: TilMurderDoUsPart: Clytemnestra kills her husband, Agamemnon.
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* HumanSacrifice: Agamemnon sacrifices Iphegenia to end the storms and allow the Greeks to cross to Troy.
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* TillMurderDoUsPart: Clytemnestra kills her husband, Agamemnon.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Both Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have affairs during the former's absence during the Trojan war.
* BadBoss: Aegisthus, who refuses to listen to the elders and threatened to starve them or put them in chains to punish them for disobeying.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Clytemnestra is covered in Agamemnon's blood after killing him.
* DeadlyBath: Agamemnon is killed in the bath.
* DownerEnding: It ends with both Agamemnon and Cassandra dead.
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* DownerEnding: It ends with both Agamemnon and Cassandra dead.
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* DownerEnding: It ends with both DoubleTap: Clytemnestra strikes Agamemnon twice and Cassandra dead.then, though he seems dead, a third time as a thanks to Hades.
* DyingCurse: The chorus describes how Iphegenia tried to desperately curse her family before she was killed, but had a bit forced in her mouth so as to stop her from polluting her own sacrifice.
* DyingCurse: The chorus describes how Iphegenia tried to desperately curse her family before she was killed, but had a bit forced in her mouth so as to stop her from polluting her own sacrifice.
* GenreSavvy: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Agamemnon initially refuses to step on the carpet because it seems to him an obvious case of hubris and thinking one is better than the gods, which will lead to his demise. Clytemnestra, however, soon convinces him otherwise.
* GetItOverWith: Not directly to the person who kills her (due to her death being offscreen), but Cassandra, knowing she is going to die, addresses the underworld to pray that she is killed quickly and easily.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The chorus talks a lot about the Trojan war as a backdrop for the story, but it of course doesn't appear on-screen (not that there wasn't other media at the time that did portray it on-screen).
* GetItOverWith: Not directly to the person who kills her (due to her death being offscreen), but Cassandra, knowing she is going to die, addresses the underworld to pray that she is killed quickly and easily.
* GreatOffscreenWar: The chorus talks a lot about the Trojan war as a backdrop for the story, but it of course doesn't appear on-screen (not that there wasn't other media at the time that did portray it on-screen).
* HumanSacrifice: Agamemnon sacrifices Iphegenia to end the storms and allow the Greeks to cross to Troy.
* HystericalWoman: The chorus thinks Clytemnestra is this when she says that the Greeks are returning, even though she saw real evidence (the beacon). She calls them out for this.
* HystericalWoman: The chorus thinks Clytemnestra is this when she says that the Greeks are returning, even though she saw real evidence (the beacon). She calls them out for this.
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* {{Misblamed}}: A footnote in one translation notes that the Chorus does this to Helen, claiming that she was ultimately responsible for the war.
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* KilledOffscreen: Agamemnon and Cassandra, due to the naturee of Greek staging not allowing for on-screen murders.
* {{Misblamed}}: A footnote in one translation notes that the Chorus does this to Helen, claiming that she was ultimately responsible for the war. Clytemnestra also accuses the chorus of putting too much of the blame solely on Helen.
* MadeASlave: Cassandra, after Troy is captured.
* {{Misblamed}}: A footnote in one translation notes that the Chorus does this to Helen, claiming that she was ultimately responsible for the war. Clytemnestra also accuses the chorus of putting too much of the blame solely on Helen.
* MadeASlave: Cassandra, after Troy is captured.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Clytemnestra gets Agamemnon to step on a purple carpet, representing power and luxury. Agamemnon initially refuses on the grounds that it would be hubris to walk on such an exaggerated display of power.
* RapePillageAndBurn: Agamemnon and the rest of the Greek army when they sack Troy. The chorus even [[WhatTheHellHero calls Agamemnon out on it when he returns.]]
* ReportsOfMyDeathHaveBeenGreatlyExaggerated: Clytemnestra tells Agamemnon that she has heard many false reports of his death during the war.
* RapePillageAndBurn: Agamemnon and the rest of the Greek army when they sack Troy. The chorus even [[WhatTheHellHero calls Agamemnon out on it when he returns.]]
* ReportsOfMyDeathHaveBeenGreatlyExaggerated: Clytemnestra tells Agamemnon that she has heard many false reports of his death during the war.
* SadisticChoice: Agamemnon had to choose between killing his own daughter and abandoning the war expedition, letting down his people and Artemis.
* SoundOnlyDeath: Agamemnon dies offscreen, and we only hear him saying he has been hit. Cassandra doesn't even say anything.
* WhatTheHellHero: For a given definition of hero. The chorus respects Agamemnon but they are disgusted by his [[RapePillageAndBurn actions in Troy]], and aren't afraid to say so.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Clytemnestra cheats on Agamemnon with his cousin Aegisthus, while Agamemnon himself has taken Cassandra as his concubine, [[DoubleStandard but guess which adulterer is treated less sympathetically]].
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* YourCheatingHeart: Clytemnestra cheats on Agamemnon with his cousin Aegisthus, while Agamemnon himself has taken Cassandra as his concubine, [[DoubleStandard but guess which adulterer is treated less sympathetically]]. Clytemnestra also points out how Agamemnon has been taking plenty of concubines, like Chryseis, while he was at Troy.
