Clytemnestra

or Cly·taem·nes·ra

[ klahy-tuh m-nes-truh ]

/ ˌklaɪ təmˈnɛs trə /

noun Classical Mythology.

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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Examples from the Web for clytemnestra

The Chorus are past military age, and are come to learn from Clytemnestra why there is sacrifice throughout all Argos.
Authors of Greece|T. W. Lumb
She had also two daughters, named Helen and Clytemnestra, and Helen was growing into the most beautiful woman in the world.
Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History|Charlotte M. Yonge
In the Agamemnon the elders of Mycenæ assume an attitude directly hostile to Ægisthus and Clytemnestra.
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2)|John Addington Symonds
No reader could possibly think that this Ghost was meant to be an hallucination; yet Clytemnestra cannot see it.
Shakespearean Tragedy|A. C. Bradley

Clytemnestra has greeted the king with a set oration, admirable for its rhetoric, covering by dark innuendoes her foul thought.
Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol I of 2)|John Addington Symonds

British Dictionary definitions for clytemnestra

Clytemnestra

Clytaemnestra

/ (ˌklaɪtɪmˈnɛstrə) /

noun

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

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