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Bookmark or Share- Helen of Troy - MythopediaIn some traditions, Helen was of childbearing age when Theseus abducted her and actually bore him a daughter named Iphigenia. When Helen returned to Sparta, she gave Iphigenia to her sister Clytemnestra to raise. Later, Iphigenia was sacrificed by Clytemnestra’s husband Agamemnon so that the Greeks could appease the gods and sail to Troy.
- Iphigenia in Aulis - MythopediaMost notably, Clytemnestra places her responsibility to her children above all else, including her duty to Greece or her husband. The Iphigenia in Aulis also explores the meaning and nature of war, particularly as it relates to Panhellenism (that is, the idea of a unified Greek or “Hellenic” identity and ideology).
- Cassandra - MythopediaAgamemnon later claimed her as his concubine and brought her back to Mycenae, where his wife Clytemnestra murdered them both. Cassandra was popular in ancient literature and art. Today as in antiquity she remains the archetypal prophet of doom whose warnings go tragically ignored.
- Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) - MythopediaLeda became pregnant by both of her lovers and gave birth to quadruplets: Castor and Clytemnestra, whose father was Tyndareus, and Pollux and Helen, whose father was Zeus. Leda and the Swan by Cesare de Sesto after Leonardo da Vinci (ca. 1505–1510). Wilton House, Salisbury, UK. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain
- Agamemnon – MythopediaIn other versions, it was Clytemnestra (either alone or with Aegisthus’ help) who did the killing after trapping Agamemnon in a net or a robe while he was in his bath. Clytemnestra then killed Cassandra too. Clytemnestra Hesitates before Killing the Sleeping Agamemnon by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1817). Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
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