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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1093617, member: 19463&quot;]It was badge of the city like the turtle was to Aegina and the owl to Athens.&nbsp; I do not know why they picked it.&nbsp; I did find this.&nbsp; Google is our friend.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&quot;In Aesychlus&#039; <i>Agamemnon</i>, the protagonists Agamemnon and Menelaus are described as two predatory eagles that &quot;kill the pregnant hare&quot; (10). The line: &quot;The white bird and the black, Menelaus and Agamemnon&quot; shows the connection between these two brothers and predatory animals (Aesychlus 11). Carne-Ross writes in the <i>Kenyon Review</i> of this violent act as &quot;an omen, a favorable one&quot;(22). Not only is the death of the hare a favourable omen for Agamemnon, the hare represents &quot;the destruction of Troy&quot; (Carne-Ross 22). The hare is also a metaphor for Agamemnon&#039;s daughter, Iphigenia, who is sacrificed to Artemis to help the Achaeans destroy Troy, as Artemis is &quot;on the Trojan side&quot; (Carne-Ross 22). Agamemnon sacrifices Iphigenia while under direct pressure from Zeus: &quot;[fate] drags him, as at the heels of horses&quot; (Aesychlus 16). By appeasing Artemis, Agamemnon, under Zeus&#039; direction, has shown himself to be an aggressive and predatory animal in both family and politics. Although a protagonist, Agamemnon acts as a violent animal.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2398424/two_eagles_and_two_snakes_in_the_house.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2398424/two_eagles_and_two_snakes_in_the_house.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2398424/two_eagles_and_two_snakes_in_the_house.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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