Clytemnestra

American  

[klahy-tuhm-nes-truh] / ˌklaɪ təmˈnɛs trə /

Or Clytaemnesra

noun

Classical Mythology.

1. the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the wife of Agamemnon, and the mother of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia. She killed Agamemnon and was herself killed, along with her lover, Aegisthus, by Orestes.

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Clytemnestra British  

/ ˌklaɪtɪmˈnɛstrə /

noun

1. Greek myth the wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed on his return from the Trojan War

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Example Sentences

In Icke’s “Oresteia,” mirroring the violence is never the intention; we encounter the war only through the perspective of the family, more precisely through Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2022

Such was the woeful case of a certain Princess Iphigenia, the beautiful daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2021

Before “Moonstruck,” Dukakis subsisted as a stage actress, playing classical and modern tragic parts from Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra to Eugene O’Neill’s Mary Tyrone.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2021

She starred as Clytemnestra in a BBC miniseries adaptation of Sophocles' "Oresteia" in 1979, and she starred in an adaptation of "Hedda Gabler" for English television in 1981.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2020

So she brooded through the bitter days of the long years that followed, while Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled the land.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton