The chain response of violence is already a important subject matter within the Agamemnon and is imageized in a famous speech by Clytaemnestra. She tells the Chorus how the device of beacon fires relayed the message of Troy’s fall from Mount Ida to Argos, bringing her the information before the arrival of the military. One fire ends in the
kindling of another in a elegant yet sinister succession of symptoms, a path of fire this is first ignited with the burning of the metropolis of Troy itself. It is no twist of fate that the complete trilogy begins with the stirring scene of the watch-
man sitting on the roof, waiting for a sign of his grasp’s go back, after which rejoicing (inappropriately, as it turns out) whilst the beacon sign seems.
Clytaemnestra, for her element, is proud of he
