" In the Oresteia of Aeschylus poor Orestes is driven mad...by a conflict of obligations. As a son, he had an obligation to avenge the murder of his father. But his father was murdered by his mother, Clytemnestra, to whom he also had a filial obligation. Which was more holy? In Aeschylus, Clytemnestra takes out her breast and puts the question in a terrifying gesture: How could her child plunge his knife into the breast that had suckled him?"
Above quote taken from The Trail of Socrates by I. F. Stone
Without menses-malice.
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