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Ród Pelopsa. Klitajmestra wyszła za mąż za Tantala [7] (Kubiak używa też imienia Talos [15]). Mąż jej wywodził się z rodu Pelopsa, a ojcem jego był Tyestes [8] [16], śmiertelny wróg swego brata Atreusa, z którym przegrał rywalizację o tron mykeński. Niekiedy też za ojca jego podaje się syna Tyestesa imieniem Ajgistos [17] czy też Broteasa [18].
Aegisthus and Clytemnestra took the rule of Mycenae for seven years, until Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, returned and killed his mother and her lover as revenge for his father's death.
25 wrz 2024 · Clytemnestra’s son, Orestes, exiled after the murder of his father, returned to avenge Agamemnon. In a tragic conclusion, Orestes killed his mother to fulfil his duty of vengeance, continuing the pattern of retribution that defined the House of Atreus.
18 sie 2023 · Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, was the wife of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae. She and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon when he returned home from the Trojan War, but were later killed in turn by Orestes, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son.
In this case, Clytemnestra was married to a man called Tantalus, son of Broteas, and therefore grandson of the more famous Tantalus; and Clytemnestra had born her husband a son. Agamemnon decided that he wanted Clytemnestra to be his wife, and so he killed Tantalus and Clytemnestra’s son.
Clytemnestra trying to awake the Erinyes while her son is being purified by Apollo, Apulian red-figure krater, 480–470 BC, Louvre (Cp 710) Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta, making her a Spartan Princess. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, seducing and ...
Upon his return, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon. Clytemnestra was then killed by her son, Orestes , with the help of his sister Electra , in revenge for his father’s murder.
