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Betrayal
Yeah, there's no getting around the fact that this myth is chock full of some pretty serious betrayals. First, there's Agamemnon who betrays his daughter, Iphigenia, by offering her up as a sacrifice to Artemis so that he can go off and fight the Trojan War. Not only is this a betrayal of Iphigenia, it's also a major stab in the back to his wife, Clytemnestra. We can't think of many worse things one parent could do to another than kill a child they created together.
Clytemnestra answers Agamemnon's betrayal with some of her own. While the king is off at war, she starts sleeping with his cousin, Aegisthus. (Ouch. Also, ew.) When he gets back, she seals the deal by stabbing her hubby to death. (Ouch again!) No doubt about it, these people do some serious backstabbing. Well, in Clytemnestra's case, she does some heart-stabbing, some chest-stabbing, some face-stabbing and whatever other creative kind of stabbing you can think of.
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