"Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned" Is this more apt a description of Medea or of Clytemnestra?

... "Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned" Is this more apt a description of Medea or of Clytemnestra? In the two plays The Agamemnon and The Medea, we are introduced to two very different women with very different problems. We become familiar with a different side of women when we realise the thought processes and actions of both Medea and Clytemnestra. Both women are strong, intelligent women with a great deal of power for revenge against their husbands and their husbands' lovers. Throughout these two works the focus is on the amount of power that both Clytemnestra and Medea possess and their limited ability to use it. Due to the fact of similarities between authors writing in the same place and time, we often make the mistake of presuming their viewpoints are identical on the given subject. It would be a mistake to expect Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Euripides' Medea to express

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