https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/02/leading-powerful-wealthy-famous-just-rewards-origin-red-carpet-treatment/
Anons all this talk about red shoes and walking in blood got me thinking about symbolism. So I looked up the background on rolling out the red carpet.
"A few years before his death, Aeschylus wrote Agamemnon, in which, after a ten-plus year absence from his kingdom of Mycenae, King Agamemnon returned home to his wife, Clytemnestra, triumphant from the Trojan War and dragging along his new concubine, Cassandra.
Clytemnestra was happy to see Agamemnon, but only because now she could seek her vengeance – not only for his new lady friend, but more particularly for his role in the death of their daughter, Iphigenia, a decade previous.
Just before the Greek fleet had sailed off to fight the Trojan War, Agamemnon killed one of the goddess Artemis’ deer, which enraged her, leading to Artemis’ interfering with the Greek fleet leaving. To appease her, Agamemnon was forced to sacrifice his oldest daughter, obviously without Clytemnestra’s consent.
So, by the time he arrived back in Mycenae, Clytemnestra was more than pleased to greet him; and, determined to make a show of it, she rolled (or more accurately spread) out a literal red carpet, marking the first known mention of such a thing. Ordering her ladies to make a path for Agamemnon to walk from his chariot to the palace doors, she stated:
You women . . . Spread out those tapestries, here on the ground, directly in his path [which shall] be covered all in red so Justice can lead him back into his home . . . .
Having already paid once for earlier hubris, Agamemnon was afraid of further angering the gods by taking on such airs:
Don’t invite envy to cross my path . . . That’s how we honor gods . . . For a mortal man to place his foot like this on rich embroidery is . . . not without some risk.
Eventually, however, he relented to Clytemnestra’s pestering, albeit after first removing his sandals, and walked barefoot on the red carpet that led him into his palace . . . and eventual doom (shortly after this, Clytemnestra stabbed him to death in the bathtub)."
Is it related? Dunno. Found it interesting though.