Clytaemnestra
Clytemnestra

He was followed by Marianne, who only needed a bloodstained axe to make her look like Clytaemnestra.

Tantalus II was killed by Agamemnon, who married his wife, Clytaemnestra.

O, Clytaemnestra!

Orestes explains that he has avenged Agamemnon's death by killing Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus.

Iphigenia enters and, although the two do not recognize each other, Orestes sees an astonishing likeness between her and the slain Clytaemnestra seen in his dream.

The god Apollo takes part in the trial as the advocate for the defendant Orestes, and the Furies as prosecutors for the slain Clytaemnestra.

The suitor who won was Menelaus (Tyndareus, not to displease the powerful Agamemnon offered him another of his daughters, Clytaemnestra).

Schoeneus, a man who reared Orestes, from whose home Orestes directed to Argos to avenge the death of his father on Clytaemnestra.

When Agamemnon left Mycenae for the Trojan War, Aegisthus seduced his wife, Clytaemnestra, and the couple plotted to kill her husband upon his return.

Hertmans wrote a second theatre play For the Brussels Kaaitheater, about the obsessive power of women in Greek tragedies (Antigone, Clytaemnestra, Medea).

In the Iliad, Iphianassa is an obscure and controversial daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, sister to Laodice and Chrysothemis, sometimes considered identical to Iphigeneia.

In Euripides' play Orestes Glaucus appeared in front of Menelaus on the latter's voyage home, announcing to him the death of his brother Agamemnon by the hand of Clytaemnestra.

While her husband fought at Troy, she had a love affair with Leucus (like Clytaemnestra and Aegiale, she became unfaithful to her husband at the instigation of Nauplius).

Although the storm dies down, Iphigenia remains troubled by a dream she has had, in which she envisioned her mother Clytaemnestra murdering her father, then her brother Orestes killing her mother, and finally her own hand stabbing her brother.

After the war, having escaped the massacre organized by Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus of Agamemnon and his retinue, he travelled to Italy and founded the city of Falerii (now Civita Castellana), which received its name after him.

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.

In the 1980's, he was known for works like "The Cry of Clytaemnestra" (performed at the San Francisco Opera) or "The Tempest" (Santa Fe); since 1993 his operas have been crafted for his own chamber troupe, the Pocket Opera Players.

His most famous opera is The Cry of Clytaemnestra (1980), a re-telling of some of the events surrounding the Trojan War from the perspective of Agamemnon's wife Clytaemnestra, which has been hailed as the first feminist opera.