would welcome Agamemnon home, for he believes the kingdom is not being ruled as it should be. The Chorus of elders also yearns for the return of the king and would have followed him into battle had they not been too old. They also express the idea that certain events are inevitable, and though they do not say so here, this applies to the inevitability of the revenge Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus bring to the house of Atreus. The story of this house is well known, so the elders will not be surprised when the past does catch up to Agamemnon. At this point, however, they speak to Clytaemnestra as does the Watchman, as if she will be filled with joy that her husband is returning, and she in turn speaks in much the same way early in the play Agamemnon:
But now, how best to speed my preparation to
receive my honored lord come home again--what else
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