In the altar, The House of Atreus, the author characterizes Clytemnestra through the Watchman and the Chorus as being heartbroken. Clytemnestra is heartbroken because her husband, Agamemnon killed their daughter Iphigenia, “He is given the choice the ships rot and the men starve or Iphigenia, his daughter, dies on the altar stone” (110). She is really devoted to murdering her husband as revenge for sacrificing their daughter. The Watchman explains that Clytemnestra is unhappy about losing Iphigenia, “The cry of war that rose from the throats of the Greeks was like the eagles’ scream when their nest is found empty, their young taken away” (33-35). The Chorus describes that Clytemnestra is ruling Argos while Agamemnon is gone at war against
