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當阿迦曼農因得罪阿提密斯女神，女神刻意在海上興風作浪，讓船隻無法渡海，阿迦曼農為贏得特洛伊戰爭，不惜以要將長女許配給希臘最偉大的英雄阿基里斯為由，將自己的女兒伊菲格涅雅騙到特洛伊，其實是把自己的親生骨肉獻祭，伊菲格涅雅悲慘地面對命運。但當阿迦曼農結束長征回到家鄉邁錫尼王國，面對的卻是孩子被殺，憤怒母親的復仇。
他的妻子克呂泰涅斯特拉和情夫設計害死，進一步想統治整個邁錫尼，但她的二女兒伊萊克查則一心想為父親報仇，當她發現母親準備將毒手伸向親生兒子歐瑞斯特斯，已獲得永久的統治權，她和歐瑞斯特斯必須想方設法逃出母親的魔掌，讓一切回到正軌...
'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'
On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.
His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.
Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.
House of Names is a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers.
