It also suggests that this event leads to the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra ( the latter being the daughter of Leda ).

In Greek mythology, Helen of Troy ( in Greek,, Helénē ), also known as Helen of Sparta, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda ( or Nemesis ), step-daughter of King Tyndareus, wife of Menelaus and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra.

A similar pair of twin sisters are Helen ( of Troy ) and Clytemnestra ( who are also sisters of Castor and Polydeuces ).

Aegisthus and Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra, Agamemnon's war prize, a prophet-priestess of Troy.

She was the mother of Helen ( Ἑλένη ) of Troy, Clytemnestra ( Κλυταιμνήστρα ), and Castor and Pollux ( Κάστωρ καὶ Πολυδεύκης, also spelled Kastor and Polydeuces ).

Their consummation, on the same night as Leda lay with her husband Tyndareus, resulted in two eggs from which hatched Helen ( later known as the beautiful " Helen of Troy "), Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux ( also known as the Dioscuri ( Διόσκουροι ).

The most obvious is of course, during the course of his vociferous assaults on Clodia Metelli, Cicero often compares her to Medea and also Clytemnestra.

According to some scholars, Deianeira's character in Women of Trachis is intended as a commentary on Aeschylus ' treatment of Clytemnestra, and if this is the case this play was most likely produced reasonably soon after Oresteia, although it is also possible that such commentary was triggered by a later revival of Aeschylus ' trilogy.

He killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus and succeeded to his father's throne.

In Euripides ’ other story about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, the play takes place after the sacrifice and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

Pylades and Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ( in some accounts with Electra helping ).

While Orestes was away, Clytemnestra killed her husband, Orestes ' father Agamemnon.

Seven or eight years after the death of Agamemnon, Agamemnon's son Orestes returned to Mycenae and, with the help of his cousin Pylades and his sister Electra, killed both their mother, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus.

She later kills Agamemnon ( Brian Cox ) during the Sack of Troy ; in classical mythology Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

When they were young, their parents were killed by Orestes, who was their half-brother and the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon ( this was in revenge for Clytemnestra killing Agamemnon, which she did in revenge for Agamemnon killing their daughter Iphigenia ).

Erigone was the daughter of Clytemnestra and Aigisthos ( both of whom Orestes killed ), while Orestes was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.

After Aegisthus and Clytemnestra are killed on stage, Orestes is denied the crown and banished.

Meanwhile, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge his father Agamemnon with assistance from his friend Pylades.

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In earlier known versions of this story, Deianeira is a rather masculine character, similar to that of Clytemnestra in Oresteia who purposely killed her husband Agamemnon, but in Women of Trachis Deianeira's character is much softer and more feminine and she is only inadvertently responsible for the death of her husband.

The play recounts the story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.

In the mistaken belief that her husband Agamemnon had murdered their daughter Iphigenia, Clytemnestra then killed Agamemnon.

In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands.

In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.

Orestes was absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, in retribution for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds during the Greek voyage to Troy.

In the play, Clytemnestra compares the dead Cassandra to a swan who has " sung her last final lament ".

When King Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra, his wife Clytemnestra ( who has taken Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus as a lover ) kills them.

Cassandra, who has been driven partially mad due to a curse by which she can see the future but will never be believed when she warns others, is morbidly delighted by this news: she sees that when they arrive in Argos, her new master's embittered wife Clytemnestra will kill both her and her new master.

Apollo gives an order through the Oracle at Delphi that Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, her lover.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

In some later versions Clytemnestra herself does the killing, or they do it together, in his own home.

There they respectively married Tyndareus ' daughters Clytemnestra and Helen.

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis.

Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, had taken Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, as a lover.

When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

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.

While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.

Unbeknownst to Agamemnon, while he was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra, had begun an affair with Aegisthus.

In Aeschylus's Oresteia, the story is begun with Agamemnon's return home, to find that his wife, Clytemnestra, had married her lover, Aegisthus.

However, he pretended to be a messenger bringing the news of his death and slew Clytemnestra.

Agamemnon initially rejects the hubris of walking on the fine purple tapestry, an act suggested by Clytemnestra, in hopes of bringing his ruin.

Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States, where she had earlier appeared in 1931, performing Clytemnestra in a modern Greek version of Electra.

According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta.

Incidentally, Telemachus learns the fate of Menelaus ’ brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks at Troy: he was murdered on his return home by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Many of the Greek wives were persuaded to betray their husbands, most significantly Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, who was seduced by Aegisthus, son of Thyestes.

His wife Clytemnestra ( Helen's sister ) was having an affair with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, Agamemnon's cousin who had conquered Argos before Agamemnon himself retook it.

Possibly out of vengeance for the death of Iphigenia, Clytemnestra plotted with her lover to kill Agamemnon.