person
Clytemnestra
also: Κλυταιμνήστρη
Agamemnon's wife, at first resistant to Aegisthus's seduction but eventually won over; complicit in Agamemnon's murder, the poem's dark counter-example to faithful Penelope.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §3.255 noble Clytemnestra
Agamemnon's wife, who at first refused Aegisthus's advances before finally yielding; her complicity in Agamemnon's murder makes her the poem's warning example against Penelope.