Aeschylus Agamemnon 1040-1
Clytemnestra’s address to Cassandra at Aesch. Ag. 1035 ff. is shown to use much the same technique and ironic effect as Antilochus’ to Odysseus at Od. 21.293 ff. Both paradigms pa¬tronise the apparently helpless addressee, who is actually in a morally stronger position than the speaker.
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Firenze University Press
2016
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