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

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

Helen and Clytemnestra are princesses of Sparta, both married off by their father as pawns in service of stronger alliances.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 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

Ms. Rigg returned to television, largely in more serious roles than before, among them Clytemnestra, Hedda Gabler, Regan in “King Lear” and Lady Dedlock in “Bleak House.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2020

It would be joyful news to Clytemnestra and Aegisthus who had always feared what he might do, and they would certainly want to see the messengers.

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