On the physiological theory, as such, the poet passes no judgement, but the inference which depreciates the relationship of mother and child he cannot accept without undermining one of the bases of tragic emotion in his trilogy. 
Not only does the dramatic tension of the Choephori <tag "515648">derive</> from this relationship, but in the Agamemnon also interest is focused upon the relationship of Clytemnestra to her daughter Iphigeneia and upon the violation of a mother's rights.   

