23. Agamemnon-The Return, Oil on Canvas, $2.267
After Agamemnon heads off to Troy, his wife Clytemnestra, spurred on by her resentment of Agamemnon for sacrificing his daughter to Artemis in exchange for favorable winds for his ships, initiates an affair with Aegisthus, Agamemnon’s cousin. Together they plot to Kill Agamemnon after his return from war at Troy.
On his return from Troy Clytemnestra devises a plan to murder Agamemnon. She sews the ends of the sleeves and collar of Agamemnon’s night shirt and while he is getting ready for bed, she stabs him to death, thus avenging the death of her daughter at the hands of her husband’s ambition.
