en-theos:
the nearly incestuous role cassandra plays in the agamemnon. she’s introduced in a way that suggests a role as agamemnon’s bride, arriving at her new home, but agamemnon’s actual wife is waiting for them in the traditional place of the mother of the groom, making her the mother-in-law of cassandra, who also bears a strong comparison to iphigeneia, clytaemnestra’s actual daughter, in terms of bridal/virginal/sacrificial imagery. the exact daughter that clytaemnestra aims to avenge since she was sacrificed instead of wedded. BUT instead she kills her husbandson AND his daughterwife to boot to show she’s beyond reason. killing both the transgressor and her reason for revenge. and then her son kills her. perversion and blurring of sexual and familial boundaries all around