Clytemnestra Clytaemnestra : half-sister of Helen. She married Agamemnon & bore him three children. But when Agamemnon was fighting in the Trojan War, she fell in love with Aegisthus; & when Agamemnon returned the lovers killed him.
... troops, however, revolted, and so Odysseus prepared a plan, according to which a message was sent to the Palace at Mycenae. The message was that Iphigenia should go over to Aulis with her mother, Clytemnestra (who was the sister of Helen), where Iphigenia could be married to Achilles. Tempted by this message, the mother and the daughter reached Aulis where everything was got ready for the sacrifice of... Asia, the Aegean and in Italy. Menelaus returned to Sparta along with Helen as his queen. When Agamemnon reached Mycenae he clasped his land and kissed it. But during his long absence, his wife, Clytaemnestra, had taken his cousin Aegisthus for king; and when Agamemnon entered the Palace, they killed him. The return of Odysseus to Ithaca was also very sad. Homer tells the entire story of the return... Greek legend was pursuing its course in the land of Agamemnon.Orestes, son of Agamemnon, grown to manhood and aroused by his bitter sister Electra, avenged their father by murdering their mother, Clytaemnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus.Later on, Orestes ascended the throne and still later added Sparta to his kingdom. But from his ascension started the decline. By the end of the age that had opened with ...
... eldest son of Atreus and brother of Menelaus, King of Mycenae and Argos, Agamemnon was the commander in chief of the Greek forces against Troy. On his return to Greece, he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus; his death was avenged by his children, Electra and Orestes. Agathon: Trojan, son of Priam. Argives: alternative name for the Achaeans or Greeks ...
... look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up - or Lady Macbeth providing a more weird and Romantically quivering analogue to the Classical Clytemnestra of Aeschy-lus: Come, come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood, ...
... already besieged Troy for nine years in vain; they are despondent, homesick, and decimated with disease. They had been delayed at Aulis by sickness and a windless sea; and Agamemnon had embittered Clytemnestra, and prepared his own fate, by sacrificing their daughter Iphegenia for a breeze. On the way up the coast, the Greeks had stopped here and there to replenish their supplies of food and concubines; ...
... Clanged, and he came like the Night. (K.D.S. - the first line from Sri Aurobindo) Then take those terrible yet beautiful words of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus after she has thrown an embroidered robe upon her husband in his bath and killed him. She lifts the blood-stained robe and says: Round him ...
... success only one or two unusual types known to him or in sympathy with his own temperament or those which are quite abnormal and therefore easily drawn; the latter are generally bad women, the Clytaemnestras, Vittoria Corombonas, Beatrice Joannas. The women of Vyasa & of Sophocles have all a family resemblance; all possess a quiet or commanding masculine strength of character which reveals their parentage ...
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