I actually think that line says more about Agamemnon than people realize.
History remembers him as a ruthless king—the man who sacrificed his own daughter for favorable winds. And because of that, it's easy to assume he was incapable of loving anyone.
But then he speaks of Clytemnestra as his "beautiful wife."
Not "the woman who betrayed me." Not "my murderer." Just... his beautiful wife.
To me, that doesn't erase the terrible things he did. Sacrificing Iphigenia was unforgivable. But it does suggest that, despite everything, a part of him still loved Clytemnestra. Even after she took his life, that was the first way he chose to remember her.
Maybe Agamemnon wasn't a good husband.
Or maybe their marriage was far more complicated than the simple "hero vs. villain" story we've been told.
That's what makes Greek mythology so fascinating. The characters are rarely just one thing. They're messy, contradictory, and painfully human.
This is like the mcdonald’s hot coffee saga again where the victim’s claim was trivialised and treated like a joke when the coffee was so hot she suffered third degree burns and needed skin grafts
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Standard histories completely ignore the role of the USSR in the gains we achieved during the civil rights movement.
One reason why elites were motivated to address Jim Crow was that the Soviets were getting easy propaganda layups because America was so overtly racist.
À cet âge ils pensent battre le monde entier. Mon neveu me défie régulièrement à la bagarre, et je le laisse souvent gagner, surtout devant les gens, car je ne suis pas un pathétique individu frustré et émotionnellement retardé au point de me sentir en compétition avec des gosses