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Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra, also spelled Clytaemnestra (pronounced ; (ギリシア語:Κλυταιμνήστρα), (:klytai̯mnɛ̌ːstra)), in ancient Greek legend, was the wife of Agamemnon, ruler of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. In the ''Oresteia'' by Aeschylus, she murdered Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom he had taken as war prize following the sack of Troy; however, in Homer's ''Odyssey'', her role in Agamemnon's death is unclear and her character is significantly more subdued.
The name form (''Klytaimnēstra'') is commonly glossed as "famed for her suitors". However, this form is a later misreading motivated by an erroneous etymological connection to the verb , 'woo, court'. The original name form is believed to have been (''Klytaimēstra''), without the ''-mn-'', and the modern form with ''-mn-'' does not occur before the middle Byzantine period.〔"Oresteia", Loeb edition by Alan Sommerstein, intro, p.x, 2008.〕 Aeschylus, in certain wordplays on her name, appears to assume an etymological link with the verb , 'scheme, contrive'.
==Background==
Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, seducing and impregnating her. Leda produced four offspring from two eggs: Castor and Clytemnestra from one egg, and Helen and Polydeuces (Pollux) from the other. Therefore, Castor and Clytemnestra were fathered by Tyndareus, whereas Helen and Polydeuces were fathered by Zeus.
Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus were in exile at the home of Tyndareus and in due time married his wife Leda's two daughters: Agamemnon married Clytemnestra who was her daughter by Tyndareus, Menelaus married Helen who was her daughter by Zeus. In a late variation, Euripides's ''Iphigenia at Aulis'', Clytemnestra's first husband was Tantalus, King of Pisa; Agamemnon kills him and his infant son, then made Clytemnestra his wife. In another version, her first husband was King of Lydia, which was known to the Greeks for its shrine of the labrys, the double-bladed ax that some say Clytemnestra used to kill Agamemnon.
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