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

The following year, she was Clytemnestra in a Circle in the Square production of “Iphigenia in Aulis.”

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2022

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

From Washington Post • May 1, 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

It had waited ever since the Queen, Clytemnestra, had come back from Aulis, where she had seen her daughter die.

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