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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Clytemnestra

Something you don’t want to hear after getting married: “Now that’s a coincidence. My birth mother’s name was Clytemnestra de Nunkyhaven, too!”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022

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

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

Clytemnestra was another iconic Greek woman whose story inspired artists down the centuries.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2018

The wife of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, has all the foreground to herself.

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