#banishes

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08 - Clytemnestra

From: Agamemnon, by Aeschylus

Genre: Drama

Topic: Banish, anger, blame

Character: Female

                                          So now                                 you’d sentence me to banishment, send me from the city a thing accursed? Back then you made no accusation against this man lying here. He sacrificed his own child, that dear girl I bore in pain, to charm the winds from Thrace—and didn’t care. To him she was a beast for slaughter. He had flocks of them—his farms were full. Shouldn’t you have banished him from Argos in punishment for that polluting crime?                         You’re strict enough when you pass judgment on what I’ve done. So let me caution you— I’m prepared to fight you head to head. If you win, well then, you can govern me. But if god lets me prevail, you old men will learn, old as you are, to behave yourselves.

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Wuhan neighbourhood banishes memory of lockdown death

Wuhan neighbourhood banishes memory of lockdown death

Body of a man lying for hours on a sidewalk became a symbol of the chaos enveloping coronavirus-hit Wuhan last year. It was the image that became a symbol of the chaos enveloping coronavirus-hit Wuhan: the body of a man lying for hours on the pavement. The grim scene, captured a year ago by AFP news agency, was around the corner from a hospital in the Chinese metropolis – now known as the…

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