Fowler deduces that masculine power is threatened by the murder of the King, Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra. ... She argues that Agamemnon, Cassandra, Aegisthus, and she are the better couples. ... Zeitlin on his part perceives that placing Agamemnon together with Cassandra is a method of weakening him. According to him, Agamemnon, through his association with Cassandra is feminized (Zeitlin 92) In both the Agamemnon and the Choephori, Clytemnestra is portrayed as something different from a wife and a mother. ... The Erinyes will come from Agamemnon if Orestes fails to avenge him. ...

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