410 THE GREEK SAGAS: GREEK LOCAL LEGENDS
The Death of Agamemnon. Attic red-figure krater, possibly by the Dokimasia painter, ca.
470 B.c., height 20V2 m- Aegisthus holds Agamemnon by his hair, having already thrust
his sword into him. Agamemnon, enmeshed in a net, slips to the ground as Clytemnes-
tra (holding an axe) runs in from the left and a woman (perhaps Electra) tries to protect
Agamemnon. Cassandra tries to escape to the right. On the other side of this vase, the
death of Aegisthus is painted. (William Francis Warden Fund, Courtesy, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston.)Agamemnon's murder to the banquet of Thyestes, which she describes as if it
were before her eyes (Agamemnon 1095-1125):¥
Yes, I am persuaded by the evidence I see, as I weep for these children mur-
dered, for the cooked flesh eaten by their father.... What now is this new sor-
row? Great is the evil being plotted in this palace, intolerable to its friends, hard