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of the story, Clytemnestra is portrayed as a conniving, bloodthirsty woman whose desires were encouraged by Aegisthus, wanting to avenge his father. In the play, Clytemnestra welcomes her husband home and helps him down from his chariot before escorting him inside the palace. Cassandra remains outside in the chariot, where she receives a premonition and prophesizes that Clytemnestra will murder Agamemnon; a crowd watches and listens, but is unable to comprehend what she says. In this version of the story, Clytemnestra

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