Agamemnon
Odysseus.
Odysseus
How are you here? We won the war; you headed for home.
Agamemnon
Odysseus, the most brilliant of all my generals. You would never be snared as I was.
Odysseus
Were you cast adrift, like us?
Agamemnon
No. My misfortune was to make it home. Be welcomed by my beautiful wife. Bathed, anointed, made soft. To learn the hardest lesson. That I left a poison in her heart years before. A good part of her heart had gone to another. She and her lover had plotted my murder for years. Odysseus.
Odysseus
Yes.
Agamemnon
My son Orestes, did he avenge me?
Odysseus
My lord, how could I know? I'm still trying to get home.
Agamemnon
Don't make my mistake. Don't walk in the front door expecting garlands and praise. Come in disguise. Take your time. Assess.
