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Clytemnestra was eventually killed by Orestes, her son by Agamemnon. The infant Helen was also killed. Aletes and Erigone grow up at Mycenae, but when Aletes comes of age, Orestes returns from Sparta, kills his half-brother, and takes the throne.
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.
Klitajmestra (także Klytajmestra, Klitajmnestra, gr. Κλυταιμήστρα Klytaimḗstra, „Słynna-Oblubienica” [1]) – w mitologii greckiej królewna spartańska i królowa mykeńska, pochodząca od Tyndareosa i Ledy.
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.
Clytemnestra, in Greek legend, a daughter of Leda and Tyndareus and wife of Agamemnon, commander of the Greek forces in the Trojan War. She took Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnon was away at war. Upon his return, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon.
In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (/ ɒˈrɛstiːz /; Greek: Ὀρέστης [oréstɛːs]) was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra.
The son of Clytemnestra, Orestes, had to be smuggled out of the country, to avoid possible trouble with Aegisthus, although Electra and Chrysothemis would remain in Mycenae. Clytemnestra would give birth to a further two children, by Aegisthus, Aletes and Erigone.
