1. Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta, making her a Spartan Princess.
14 Facts About Clytemnestra
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Therefore, Castor and Clytemnestra were fathered by Tyndareus, whereas Helen and Polydeuces were fathered by Zeus.
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Agamemnon persuaded Clytemnestra to send Iphigenia to him, telling her he was going to marry her to Achilles.
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Whether Clytemnestra was seduced into the affair or entered into it independently differs according to the version of the myth.
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In some later versions Clytemnestra helps him or does the killing herself in his own home.
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Clytemnestra waited until he was in the bath, and then entangled him in a cloth net and stabbed him.
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Clytemnestra realized she was fated to die, and resolutely walked into the palace to receive her death.
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Some interpretations posit that despite the grudge Clytemnestra held against Agamemnon for sacrificing Iphigenia, she still harbored deep feelings for the Mycanaen King.
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The Homeric template suggests that Clytemnestra only followed her suitor Aegithus home, rather than Aeschylus' interpretation that she took him as a lover.
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In Sophocles' writing Clytemnestra is a jealous lover, and Cassandra is an unwilling point of conflict.
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In other interpretations Clytemnestra felt that her love for Agamemnon was not requited.
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Clytemnestra was eventually killed by Orestes, her son by Agamemnon.
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Clytemnestra appears in numerous works from ancient to modern times, sometimes as a villain and sometimes as a sympathetic antihero.
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Author and classicist Madeline Miller wrote "[a]fter Medea, Queen Clytemnestra is probably the most notorious woman in Greek mythology".