Agamemnon

Comment on cassandra's silence in Agamemenon.

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Cassandra's silence seems to be induced by a trance and broken by Clytemnestra's greeting. The girl is a prophetess, captured at Troy and taken as a slave. She is not submissive, and her warnings are not heeded.

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