Greek mythology
Clytemnestra
Queen of Mycenae who killed her husband in vengeance
- Mythology
- Greek mythology
- Parents
- Leda
- Group
- Mortal · Ruler
- Appears in
- Orestes · Leda and the Swan · House of Atreus
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Clytemnestra is the queen of Mycenae and wife of Agamemnon, who never forgives him for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia. While he wages war at Troy she rules with her lover Aegisthus, and on his triumphant return she snares him in a robe and strikes him dead in his bath. Her vengeance binds the house of Atreus tighter in blood, until her son Orestes turns the knife on her.
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- Who is Clytemnestra?
- Clytemnestra is the queen of Mycenae and wife of Agamemnon, who never forgives him for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia. While he wages war at Troy she rules with her lover Aegisthus, and on his triumphant return she snares him in a robe and strikes him dead in his bath.
- Which mythology does Clytemnestra belong to?
- Clytemnestra belongs to Greek mythology.
- Which stories does Clytemnestra appear in?
- Clytemnestra appears in Orestes, Leda and the Swan, House of Atreus, told as chaptered audio dramas in MythologyNow.
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