Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra.

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

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

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.

Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes, killed Atreus and restored Thyestes to the throne.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus and restored the kingdom to Thyestes.

He was killed treacherously by Aegisthus, but his wife escaped to Reggio and bore a son ( Polidoro ), from whom the epic hero Ruggiero is descended ( III, v, 18-27 ).

She saved his life by sending him to Strophius after the murder of Agamemnon, whereas Aegisthus killed her own son, taking him for Orestes.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

They escort Aegisthus off set to be killed at the hearth, the same location Agamemnon was slain.

* Aletes ( son of Aegisthus ), who was killed by Orestes

Electra has been treated as a servant girl since her mother and Aegisthus killed her father.

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