Clytaemnestra

Clytemnestra, Klutaimnestra, Klytaimestra

Wife of Agamemnon.

Genealogy

Leda

Tyndareus

Leda (mother)

Castor, Helen, Phylonoe, Pollux, Timandra

Agamemnon, Tantalus

Chrysothemis, Electra, Erigone, Iphigenia, Orestes

Places
  1. Greece
  2. Mycenae
  3. Unknown
Events
  1. Agammemnon marries Clytaemnestra
  2. Clytaemnestra sends Iphigenia to Troy at Agamemnon’s request
  3. Nauplius contrives that the wives of the Greeks play their husbands false
  4. Agamemnon is murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra
  5. Cassandra is murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra
  6. Orestes kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
  7. Leda bears Pollux and Helen to Zeus and Castor and Clytaemnestra to Tyndareus
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 10.6
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 10.7
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 2.15
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 2.16
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.22
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.9
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.23
  8. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.25
  9. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 110
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 16.7
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 18.2
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 22.3
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 22.6
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 19.6
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 34.4
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