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grbs-15145	Chesi, Giulia Maria	The Bond of Consanguinity between Mother and Daughter: Agamemnon 1417–1418 and 1525	2014	10	.pdf	application/pdf	3652	127	59	In 1417–1418, Clytemnestra describes Agamemnon as the sacrificer of his own child, refers to Iphigeneia as the child to whom she has given life, and depicts Iphigeneia’s death as the necessary condition to win favorable winds for sailing to Troy and waging war:1 ἔθυσεν αὑτοῦ παῖδα, φιλτάτην ἐµοὶ ὠδῖν’, ἐπῳδὸν Θρῃκίων ἀηµάτων he sacrificed his own child, the she-child I laboured to launch on her life-lot, to charm the winds of Thrace As has been observed, the word ὠδίς expresses the biological 1 Translations are, with a few variations, from H. Lloyd-Jones, Aeschylus. Accordingly, (a) Clytemnestra’s claim to the autonomy of the maternal body in reproduction, and (b) her defence of the biological bond of philia between mother and daughter are the crucial elements of her explanation of the murder of Agamemnon as retaliation for the father’s violence.	cache/grbs-15145.pdf	txt/grbs-15145.txt