A theme that is prevalent in the Oresteia is revenge. Agamemnon kills his daughter, so his wife kills him, only to be killed by their son, Orestes. If everyone lived that way; avenging every wrongful death by committing murder, the world would be a terrible place. Maybe Agamemnon shouldn't have sacrificed their daughter, but Clytaemnestra was still not justified in killing him. Although Apollo told Orestes to kill his mother, murder is still wrong. Without a standard of justice, society would be chaos, and chaos is never a good thing.
P.s. I commented on Alana's post.
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