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Clytemnestra (noun) - In Greek mythology, Clytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae. She is known for her role in his murder, as well as for being the mother of Orestes
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- wife of Agamemnon, whom she killed after the Trojan War, whereupon was killed herself by their son Orestes
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Clytemnestra then stabbed him to death.
It is six days after the murder of Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra then enters the room.
The trial for the murder of Clytemnestra begins.
Clytemnestra moves slowly.
They will both be murdered by his wife Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes.
This sinister black veil could be hiding the face of Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra tries to awake the sleeping Furies.
Orestes then heads to the palace door where he is unexpectedly greeted by Clytemnestra.
He was married to Clytemnestra with whom he had three daughters.
A famous example is their pursuit of Orestes after he killed his mother Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra in the hands of Varnay is frightful.
Now our story begins with a young Greek woman by the name of Clytemnestra.
Achilles and Clytemnestra rush to save the girl from being sacrificed.
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The archaic and heroic rules of vendetta both enjoin and forbid Orestes to kill Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus were buried at some little distance from the wall.
In later versions of the story Clytemnestra killed her husband in the bath with a knife.
But Clytemnestra tells him he well deserves to enter the palace like a god.
He returned as an adult to slay Clytemnestra and Aegistheus.
Clytemnestra hates her daughter Electra and does not attempt to protect her from Aegistheus.
He accused Orestes of the murder of his cousin Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra was another iconic Greek woman whose story inspired artists down the centuries.
Filing into the tomb of Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra orders death for Cassandra.
Agamemnon will return to Clytemnestra.
Go to Clytemnestra and tell her.
Electra the daughter of Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra killed her husband Agamemnon with her lover Aegisthus.
She was generally considered the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
He helped Clytemnestra kill her husband upon his return from Troy.
Orestes and Pylades enter the house and slay Clytemnestra.
Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the brother of Electra.
They begin to plot how they will murder both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra.
And that is why Agamemnon will be killed on his return by Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
Chrysothemis was a daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.
Clytemnestra after the Murder.
The central action of the play is the agon between Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.
Clytemnestra arrives at Aulis with Iphigenia and the infant Orestes.
He and Electra get together then and decide to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus then murdered both Agamemnon and Cassandra.
This Tantalus was the first husband of Clytemnestra.
Murder of Clytemnestra.
Their twin sisters were Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.
She is no Clytemnestra.
They were also the brothers of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.
Cynthia ver Clytemnestra.
The most imposing are the Treasury of Atreus and the Tomb of Clytemnestra.
But Homer does not tell us why Clytemnestra hated Agamemnon.
