Clytaemnestra
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
miserable woman · mother · murderess · the pitiless woman
in the texts
On Fate
Mythological figure, daughter of Tyndareus and wife of Agamemnon, cited in the causal-antecedent example.
nor was the fact that I went down to the Campus the cause of my playing at ball, nor was Hecuba the cause of the Trojans’ destruction because she bore Alexander, nor Tyndareus the cause to Agamemnon because he begot Clytaemnestra.
Pythian
The wife of Agamemnon who murders him and Cassandra upon his return from Troy, her motives debated by the poet (revenge for Iphigeneia, or infidelity), and from whom the infant Orestes is rescued.
Cassandra, together with the soul of Agamemnon, to the shadowy bank of Acheron with her gray blade of bronze, the pitiless woman.
Come, children of Harmonia, where even now he calls the native host of heroines to assemble, so that you may loudly sing of holy Themis and Pytho and the just navel of the earth, at the edge of evening, in honor of seven-gated Thebes and the contest at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by flinging over it a third wreath as a victor in the rich fields of Pyla …