clytemnestra in English

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wife of Agamemnon. She conspired with her lover Aegisthus to murder Agamemnon on his return from the Trojan War and was murdered in retribution by her son Orestes and her daughter Electra.

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1. Aegisthus helps Clytemnestra in order to rule the kingdom of Mycenae alongside with Clytemnestra

2. Upon his return, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered …

3. After Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon… read analysis of Aegisthus

4. Aegisthus in Greek mythology, the lover of his cousin's wife Clytemnestra, who killed her husband Agamemnon; Aegisthus and Clytemnestra were in turn killed by her son Orestes

5. 23 The wife of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, has all the foreground to herself.

6. …Agamemnon landed in Argolis, where Aegisthus had, in the interval, seduced Clytemnestra

7. As Aegisthus is uncovering the corpse, he orders Orestes to call for Clytemnestra, and then, as the corpse is revealed, he sees that it belongs to Clytemnestra herself.

8. Smiling wryly, he fetched the lead and yanked Clytemnestra from the best armchair.

9. Aegisthus (Greek mythology) The murderer of Agamemnon and lover of his wife Clytemnestra

10. As Agamemnon lay siege to Troy, his queen Clytemnestra took Aegisthus as a lover

11. Aegisthus definition is - a lover of Clytemnestra slain with her by her son Orestes.

12. Aegisthus definition: a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon , whose wife Clytemnestra he had seduced

13. In Greek mythology, Aegisthus was the lover of Clytemnestra, and son of Thyestes and Pelopia

14. Tyndareus had two ill-starred daughters, Helen and Clytemnestra, whom Menelaus and Agamemnon married, respectively.

15. After Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon, Aegisthus justifies his involvement by saying that the murder of Agamemnon also avenges Atreus’s crime against Aegisthus’s family.

16. Aegisthus is Clytemnestra ’s second husband and the king of Mycenae in Electra.After Agamemnon sacrificed his and Clytemnestra’s daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis, Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon as revenge on Clytemnestra’s behalf.Clytemnestra and Aegisthus were already having an affair while Agamemnon was away fighting the Trojan War, and Electra implies that Clytemnestra and

17. Later, Agamemnon, married to Spartan princess Clytemnestra, returned to Mycenae, defeated Aegisthus, and became king.1 As Agamemnon sailed to war on Troy, after

18. Agamemnon was a son of Atreus, the husband of Clytemnestra (a daughter of Tyndareus), and the brother of Menelaus, who was the husband of Helen of Troy (Clytemnestra's sister).

19. Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.

20. Aegisthus - (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

21. In Greek mythology, Erigone (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ ɡ ə n i /; Ancient Greek: Ἠριγόνη) was the daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, rulers of Mycenae.Some accounts said that by her half-brother, Orestes, Erigone was the mother of Penthilus and Tisamenus

22. Aeschylus is best known for his trilogy the Oresteia (458 BC, consisting of the tragedies Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides), which tells the story of Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra and the vengeance of their son Orestes.

23. Aegisthus CHORUS OF WOMEN OF MYCENAE MUTE PERSONS PYLADES, son of Strophius, King of Phocis, and friend of Orestes A HANDMAID OF CLYTEMNESTRA TWO ATTENDANTS OF ORESTES: As background to the play, King Agamemnon of Mycenae (or Argos in some versions of the myth) had returned from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra.

24. (Aegisthus was the son of Agamemnon's uncle, Thyestes, and Thyestes's daughter, Pelopia.) Clytemnestra had installed herself up as the supreme queen while Agamemnon was away, but her bitterness increased when he returned from the war not repentant, but in the company of another woman, a concubine—a concubine, the Trojan prophetess-princess