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She (Clytemnestra) describes her murder of Agamemnon in terms that invert the usual assumptions about gender roles. She was the hunter, he was the prey; she caught him in a robe as fishermen catch fish. He was in his bath and, therefore, presumably naked and supine; she stood over him, armed, as a warrior. These inversions of gender roles are shocking enough, but then she uses sexual imagery, recasting herself as female, that is more shocking still. She says that she enjoyed his blood splattering on her as flowers enjoy the rain of Zeus.Rain fertilizing plants is a commonplace metaphor for sexual intercourse. Thus, Clytaemestra seems to be saying that she derived sexual enjoyment from killing Agamemnon.

— Elizabeth vandiver, Greek tragedy lecture on Agamemnon by Aeschylus

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