clytaemnestra

Updated: May 13, 2025

"Talking about Lemnos Island," he went on, "did you notice the series of peaks which run across it in a line?" "Yes." "Well, it was on those promontories that Agamemnon, King of Mycenx, lit a chain of fire-beacons to announce the taking of Troy to his Queen, Clytaemnestra, at Argos " Here the little priest, as pleased as a school-boy, scratched a rough sketch map in the sand

John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.

There is no pleasure, for instance, in seeing six hundred mules at once in "Clytaemnestra," or a whole army of gaily-dressed horse and foot engaged in a theatrical battle. These spectacular effects delight the crowd, but not you. If you were listening to your reader Protogenes, you had greater pleasure than fell to any of us.

- The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters

"We are both agreed that Agamemnon was slain by Clytaemnestra" For in saying this each speaker has laid down that proposition which was suitable, and nevertheless has consulted the advantage of his own side. In the next place, what the matter in dispute is must be explained, when we come to mention the examination into the excuses which are alleged. And how that is managed has been already stated.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4

So at last, after thinking over the matter for long, Tyndarus gave fair Helen to Menelaus, the rich King of Lacedaemon; and her twin sister Clytaemnestra, who was also very beautiful, was given to King Agamemnon, the chief over all the princes. They all lived very happily together at first, but not for long.

Andrew Lang - Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities

The full Moon was specially connected with marriage ceremonies. Agamemnon together with Cassandra, and in part because he brought Cassandra, was murdered felled with an axe on his return home by his wife Clytaemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Their bodies were cast into a pit among the rocks. Of course in the present passage there is no direct reference to these wild sailor-stories.

Euripides - The Trojan women of Euripides

The return of the Grecian leaders from Troy forms another series of poetical legends. Several meet with tragical ends. Agamemnon is murdered on his arrival at Mycenae, by his wife Clytaemnestra and her paramour AEgisthus. But of these wanderings the most celebrated and interesting are those of Ulysses, which form the subject of the Odyssey.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest

Whenever the tragic deed, however, is done within the family when murder or the like is done or meditated by brother on brother, by son on father, by mother on son, or son on mother these are the situations the poet should seek after. The traditional stories, accordingly, must be kept as they are, e.g. the murder of Clytaemnestra by Orestes and of Eriphyle by Alcmeon.

Aristotle - Aristotle on the art of poetry