Orestes kills Clytemnestra, bronze plaque

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Bronze plaque depicting Orestes killing his mother Clytemnestra in a scene from the The Oresteia, a play by Aeschylus. Earlier, Clytemnestra murdered her husband Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, in revenge for him sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis, allowing her husband's fleet to sail to Troy.

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Photo credit: © DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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