“I’m used to the smell of death.” This is how Clytemnestra begins her story about her life after her husband, Agamemnon, left her and set off to conquer Troy. The immortal ancient Greek myth about the Trojan hero Agamemnon, about his unfaithful wife Clytemnestra, about their children, whose fate was determined by the irreversible actions of their parents, was captured more than two thousand years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and throughout subsequent history, humanity retold and rethought these destinies and plots . In the novel “House of Names,” Colm Toibin managed to discover a completely new sound of the ancient tragedy about Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia, Electra and Orestes, and fill the gaps in the classical biographies of these heroes, and give their unsolvable moral dilemmas modern shades and depth, and write an exciting and a creepy detective story set in ancient Greek settings. Tóibín leads through the insidious labyrinths of memory, sometimes false, sometimes frighteningly honest, along the paths of words that can be interpreted in five different ways - and someone’s life will depend on the choice of interpretation every time - and in the wake of always fateful decisions. This is a story about how one betrayal leads to another, how one murder turns into a chain of murders, how conviction and acquittal go hand in hand.