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In an emotional speech, this character laments, “No mother did that for you. No nurse. No slave. I.” while cradling a funeral urn. This woman’s cries of “OIMOI MOI” are left untranslated in Anne Carson’s version of a play in which this woman often argues with her sister Chrysothemis. This woman asks a chorus of slave-women if it is right to ask the gods for “one who will take life for life” before pouring wine onto a grave. Euripides parodied a scene in which a lock of hair and a footprint lead this character to recognize a man who has secretly returned to Argos. (-5[1])This woman assists her brother in a plot to kill the king Aegisthus and his wife. For 10 points, (10[1])name this woman who helps Orestes take revenge (10[1])on their mother Clytemnestra in The Libation Bearers from Aeschylus’s Oresteia. ■END■

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