Clytemnestra

or Cly·taem·nes·ra

[ klahy-tuhm-nes-truh ]

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.

Clytemnestra

/ ˌklaɪtɪmˈnɛstrə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

She has been called, after his words, the moral Clytemnestra of her husband.

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Agamemnon, at his return from the Trojan wars, was slain by Ægysthus, the adulterer of Clytemnestra.

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Here he announced himself to Clytemnestra as a messenger from Strophius, bringing news of the death of her son Orestes.

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The Chorus are past military age, and are come to learn from Clytemnestra why there is sacrifice throughout all Argos.

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Few dramatic personages have used this device so effectively as Clytemnestra, certainly none with a more fiendish intent.

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