Greek Civilization Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Instructor Date Greek Civilization “Charge answers charge, and who can weigh them, sift right from wrong? The ravager is ravaged the slayer slain. But it abides, while Zeus on his throne abides, that he who does will suffer. That is the law. Who will cast out the seed of curses from the house? The race is grafted to ruin.” The text is part of a chorus for a poem recited by Clytemnestra, the wife to King Agamemnon. The poem is about an event in which Clytemnestra kills the husband as a form of vengeance for a similar killing that the king had perpetrated before (Aeschylus). Agamemnon had brutally killed Clytemnestra’s daughter, something that
