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Clytemnestra is one of several narrators of A Thousand Ships (2019) by Natalie Haynes, which retells the Trojan War from the perspective of the women involved. Clytemnestra is the protagonist of the eponymous novel Clytemnestra (2023) by Costanza Casati. An asteroid 179 Klytaemnestra is named after Clytemnestra.
The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
Clitennestra (Clytemnestra), the Queen, Agamennone’s wife Soprano: Clara Petrella: Cassandra, Trojan's prophetess, Agamennone's concubine Soprano Luisa Malagrida Agamennone , the King, Trojan war hero Bass: Mario Petri: Egisto , Clitennestra’s lover Bass Raffaele Arié: Elettra , daughter of Agamennone and Clitennestra
Articles relating to Clytemnestra, the legends about her, and her depictions.She was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy.In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom Agamemnon had taken as a war prize following the sack of Troy.
Clytemnestra arrives at Aulis with Iphigenia and the infant Orestes. Agamemnon tries to convince Clytemnestra to go back to Argos, but Clytemnestra insists on staying for the wedding. When she sees Achilles, Clytemnestra mentions the marriage; Achilles, however, appears to be unaware of it, and she and Iphigenia gradually learn the truth.
In Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, Cassandra warned the Trojans about the Greeks hiding inside the Trojan Horse, Agamemnon's death, her own demise at the hands of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, her mother Hecuba's fate, Odysseus's ten-year wanderings before returning to his home, and the murder of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra by the latter's ...
House of Names is a 2017 novel by Colm Tóibín, retelling the legend of the Oresteia, with divine elements largely removed and including a lengthy account of Orestes' absence after the death of Agamemnon. There are three narrators: Clytemnestra, Orestes, and Electra. The novel received mixed to positive reviews. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. XII: 30–34, XIII: 185 [124] Iphis (Cretan) Daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus. She was raised as a boy and fell in love with the girl Ianthe. Iphis prayed that the women could be married so the Egyptian goddess Isis metamorphosed Iphis into a man. IX: 668-797 [125] Iphis (Cyprian) Young man in Cyprus.