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Clytemnestra

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1. Clytemnestra - Noun

2. Clytemnestra - Proper noun

Meaning

(Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon who had him murdered when he returned from the Trojan War

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All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills. Martha Graham

Aeschylus (1986), Choephori; introduction by A. F. Garvie, Oxford U. P., p. x In some later versions Clytemnestra herself does the killing, or they act together as accomplices, killing Agamemnon in his own home. Source: Internet

Aeschylus Aeschylus wrote in The Eumenides that Hermes helped Orestes kill Clytemnestra under a false identity and other stratagems, and also said that he was the god of searches, and those who seek things lost or stolen. Source: Internet

Agamemnon extended his dominion by conquest and became the most powerful prince in Greece.sfn However, when Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter Iphigenia to appease the gods before the war with Troy, Clytemnestra turned against him. Source: Internet

Apollo had encouraged Orestes to kill Clytemnestra, and so bears some of the guilt for the murder. Source: Internet

In culture Pierre-Narcisse Guérin 's Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, in which Aegisthus appears as a shadowy figure pushing Clytemnestra forward Homer gives no information about Aegisthus' back-story. Source: Internet

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