Should he kill his daughter and continue on to Troy, or should he let his daughter live and put the honor of Menelaus and Argos aside? He realizes that it is a lose-lose situation: "What of these things goes without disaster?" (Agamemnon, 211). Agamemnon needed to examine his predicament more thoroughly, but it is easy to see why he made his decision so hastily. The situation: there are 1000 ships armed with Greek soldiers that are ready to fight and win honor back for their city. How is Agamemnon going to tell all of his soldiers, "Well, sorry guys, I don't want to kill my daughter, so it looks like th

When it comes down to making the actual decision, Agamemnon decides to act as a king instead of as a father:

Agamemnon should have realized that there would eventually be some form of retribution for killing his daughter. He must have known that the act of killing his own blood would not go unpunished, especially when there are beings devoted to avenging such murders (The Furies). There is no mention in the text of the Furies being instrumental in Clytaemestra's decision to kill Agamemnon, but it seems as though they should have been. If their duty is to extract blood for blood when one family kills another, they should want Agamemnon to pay dearly for the killing of Iphigeneia. Either way, Agamemnon is punished for his choice.

But when necessity's yoke was put on him

It is a very big decision for Agamemnon to kill his daughter. How can it not be hard to kill your own flesh and blood? Clytaemestra doesn't believe that he has any remorse over Iphigeneia's death: "With no thought more than if a beast had died, When his ranged pastures swarmed with the deep fleece of flocks, He slaughtered like a victim his own child, my pain Grown into love, to charm away the winds of Thrace" (Aeschylus, 1415). Clytaemestra vents her anger toward Agamemnon for killing her daughter. She believes that Agamemnon deserves to die as penance for Iphigeneia's death. Her wrath is something that Agamemnon should have been prepared for by killing Iphigeneia.

To warp a will now to be stopped at nothing.

Reckless in fresh cruelty brings daring (Aeschylus, 217-223

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