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

It also features Robert Pattinson as one of Penelope's suitors, Antinous, and Lupita Nyong'o as both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

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

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

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