Electra
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Is she a villain or a hero? Is he a king or a coward? Is it a curse from the gods or a parent-child tragedy? --Another masterpiece adapted from Greek mythology after "Circe". When the Spartan princess Clytemnestra first saw the exiled Mycenaean prince Agamemnon in the palace hall, she was immediately moved by this forbearing, silent and ambitious young man. She would not have thought that many years later, this young man who had fought back to Mycenae and seized the throne with the help of his father's army, this man with whom she had been so close to each other - her husband - would cold-bloodedly sacrifice her own flesh and blood - their eldest daughter Iphigenia - in order to obtain the east wind that allowed the fleet of thousands of sails to sail on the eve of commanding the Greek army to sail. On that bloody evening, Clytemnestra swore a poisonous oath: She would make this man pay the same price with her own hands...
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