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| Anna Riwkin Portrait of writer Dagmar Lange ca. 1955 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of Eleanor Gonzaga, later Holy Roman Empress ca. 1600-1601 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ulf Sjöstedt Untitled (Jacob) ca. 1965 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Joseph Karl Stieler Portrait of Augusta Amélie of Bavaria, Duchess of Leuchtenberg ca. 1820 oil on canvas Château de Malmaison |
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| Jan Terwey Self Portrait 1915 drawing Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| Carle Vanloo Portrait of Cristina Somis ca. 1750 pastel on paper Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Jan Veth Portrait of Klazina Christina Boxman Winkler 1906 oil on panel Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands |
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| Gustave Colin Seated Young Woman ca. 1880 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Eugène Devéria Self Portrait 1838 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau |
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| Uno Falkengren Portrait of actor Gösta Ekman, Stockholm 1916 gelatin silver print Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Henry Fuseli Study for Shakespeare's Macbeth ca. 1770-80 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Åke Göransson The Strongest Man in Göteborg ca. 1926-28 oil on canvas Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden |
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| Ancient Greek Culture Head of Philosopher 240 BC bronze (recovered from the Aegean) National Archaeological Museum, Athens |
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| Adriaen Thomasz Key Portrait of a Man in Spanish Dress 1568 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Michiel van Miereveld Portrait of a Young Woman ca. 1620 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
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| Grant Wood Midnight Alarm 1939 lithograph Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
Chorus: We are amazed at your language – the arrogance of it – uttering boastful words like these over your husband!
Clytemnestra: You are making trial of me as if I were a stupid woman. But I say to you, with undaunted heart, what you know to be true – and I am indifferent to whether you choose to praise or condemn me: this is Agamemnon, my husband, a corpse, the work of this right hand of mine, an artificer of justice. That's how it is.
Chorus:
What evil thing have you tasted, woman –
what food or what drink, whether growing from the earth
or having its origin in the flowing seas –
to make you bring on your head this slaughter and loud public curses?
You have cast them aside, you have cut them* off; you shall be banished from the city,
mightily hated by the community.
– Aeschylus, from Agamemnon (458 BC), translated by Alan H. Sommerstein (2008)
*The object of these verbs is not expressed in the Greek, but probably what Clytemnestra has "cast aside" and "cut off" is the public and their opinions, for which she has just shown the utmost contempt.