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2023/018: Clytemnestra — Costanza Casati
Thursday, February 16th, 2023 08:12 am2023/018: Clytemnestra — Costanza Casati
... vengeance works best when it's aided by patience. And patience is like a child: it must be nursed so it can grow day after day, feeding on sorrow, until it's as angry as a bull and as lethal as a poisoned fang. [loc. 2492]
A retelling of the story of Clytemnestra, the wife who murdered Agamemnon on his return from the Trojan war. Casati bases her novel on Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis as well as the better-known Oresteia by Aeschylus: ( Read more... )
