Clytemnestra

Clytemnestra in Wikipedia

Clytemnestra or Clytaemnestra (Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα, English pronunciation [klaɪtəm'nɛstɹə]), in ancient Greek legend, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. In the Oresteia by Aeschylus, she was a femme fatale who murdered her husband, Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and the ...

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Clytaemnestra in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（*Klutaimnh/stra ), a daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, and sister of Castor, Timandra, and Philonoe, and half-sister of Polydeuces and Helena. She was married to Agamemnon. (Apollod. 3.10.6, &c.) For the particulars of the stories about her see AGAMEMNON, AEGISTHUS, ORESTES. - A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, William...

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