According to Euripides's Andromache, he slew Achilles's son Neoptolemus over the latter's wife, Hermione. Throughout the Odyssey, he is held up as an example for Telemachos to follow, but in a namesake play, he is criticized by Tyndareus for his most famous action. Despite t
According to Euripides's Andromache, he slew Achilles's son Neoptolemus over the latter's wife, Hermione. Throughout the Odyssey, he is held up as an example for Telemachos to follow, but in a namesake play, he is criticized by Tyndareus for his most famous action. Despite the efforts of his friend Pylades, that action eventually leads him to be driven mad and to be pursued by the Furies all the way to Athens. For ten points, name this son of Agamemnon, who avenges his father's death by murdering Aegisthus and his lover, this man's mother.
According to Euripides's Andromache, he slew Achilles's son Neoptolemus over the latter's wife, Hermione.
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