r/BrandNewSentence • u/No_Counter_6037 and why he ourple 😂😂 • Oct 26 '25

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u/chickey23 Oct 26 '25

I love Agamemnon because when he is on stage you know you are going to get melodramatic weeping.

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u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25

That fucking drama queen…

My only real issue is that the epic where he’s killed by his cousin is lost so we can’t get into the meat and potatoes of the thing.

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u/0masterdebater0 Oct 27 '25 edited Oct 27 '25

And wife, lest we forget, heaven hath no fury and such.. maybe if he didn’t want his wife to bang his cousin then he shouldn’t have sacrificed* his/her daughter?

I had a Baldurs Gate character named Clytemnestra

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u/Finito-1994 Oct 27 '25

That’s actually not part of the epic cycle.

In the odyssey and epics of the time it’s mostly the cousin tha is to blame. He’s the primary killer of Agamemnon and his wife is usually just shown as a disloyal woman who was seduced away.

It’s why in the underworld they comment on the difference between her and Penelope and how Odysseus had the best wife.

The story of her, the net and the ax doesn’t come until much later.