Not to be confused with Clytie or Clytia, names used for several other figures in Greek mythology.
Fictional character
Clytemnestra
Greek mythology character
Clytemnestra, John Collier, 1882
In-universe information
Family
Tyndareus (father) Leda (mother) Helen of Troy (twin half-sister) Castor and Pollux (full-brother and half-brother respectively)
Spouse
Tantalus, Agamemnon
Children
Iphigenia, Electra, Orestes, Iphianassa, Chrysothemis, Aletes, Erigone, Helen
Clytemnestra (/ˌklaɪtəmˈnɛstrə/,[1]UK also /klaɪtəmˈniːstrə/;[2] Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα, Klytaimnḗstrā, [klytai̯mnɛ̌ːstraː]), in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom Agamemnon had taken as a war prize following the sack of Troy; however, in Homer's Odyssey, her role in Agamemnon's death is unclear and her character is significantly more subdued.
^"Definition of CLYTEMNESTRA". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
^Wells, John C. (2008). Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.). Longman. ISBN 978-1-4058-8118-0.
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