bath, and be murdered. Some would suggest that Agamemnon would probably never have been murdered at all had he not set about murdering his daughter Iphigenia before leaving for Troy--even if, philandering prince and conquering hero that he is, he had brought back Cassandra as his prize, and even if, as Homer explains in the Iliad, he had delayed decisive battle with the Trojans by quarrelling with Achilles over a camp follower. The fact that Cassandra did not want to be carried off by Agamemnon by no means alters Clytemnestra's murderous, remorseless contempt for her. In any case, according to Kitto (50), Cassandra is doomed not so much by Clytemnestra as by Apollo, who is using Clytemnestra as his instrument for completing his revenge. Cassandra had spurned Apollo's amorous advances; having given her the gif
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