How To Use Clytemnestra In A Sentence
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Her mother, Clytemnestra, has been driven mad by dreams of her own death at the hands of her son, Orestes, who accomplishes that matricide as revenge for his mother's murder of his father, Agamemnon.
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Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind
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Clytemnestra, hateful child of Tyndareus, bare; hapless Electra is the name my countrymen call me.
Electra
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Clytemnestra persuades Agamemnon to expend public wealth by treading upon delicate, invaluable fabrics, thereby destroying them, as a token of his triumph.
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I'll never forget the power of certain moments: in Mitchell's production of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Clytemnestra is secured inside a building, distraught at her daughter's kidnap; then it starts raining through a hole in the roof, with helicopters blasting through from outside.
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Clytemnestra's tomb a mingled cup of honey, milk, and frothing wine; then stand upon the heaped-up grave, and proclaim therefrom, "Helen, thy sister, sends thee these libations as her gift, fearing herself to approach thy tomb from terror of the Argive mob"; and bid her harbour kindly thoughts towards me and thee and my husband; towards these two wretched sufferers, too, whom Heaven hath afflicted.
Orestes
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Joining her was mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel, with a delightfully oleaginous rendering of Clytemnestra that brought the bloodletting adulteress to new heights of malevolence.
'Elektra' Electrifies in Madrid
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Clytemnestra, like Eve, is a fallen woman who must be defeated and killed in order to allow for the regeneration of the male order.
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Bluebottle may possibly symbolize Lord and Lady Holland; and Miss Lilac is, certainly, Miss Milbanke, the "Annabella" of Byron's courtship, not the "moral Clytemnestra" of his marriage and separation.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
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In Agamemnon, there can be but little doubt that the protagonist impersonated only Clytemnestra, leaving the deuteragonist the briefer parts of the Herald, Cassandra, and Ægisthus, and to the tritagonist the Watchman and Agamemnon.
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In Agamemnon, there can be but little doubt that the protagonist impersonated only Clytemnestra, leaving the deuteragonist the briefer parts of the Herald, Cassandra, and Ægisthus, and to the tritagonist the Watchman and Agamemnon.
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With Clytemnestra the assassinator of Agamemnon, king of men; with Ravaillac, who slew the best king that France ever knew; with "him who fired Ephesian's dome;" with the murderers of our
The Uniter and Liberator of America
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Clytemnestra led Miri to a place at the head of the triclinium removed from Germanicus and Agrippina, but she noted, several heads above some very important people from the city.
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Clytemnestra thinks her murder of Agamemnon justified because he had sacrificed Iphigenia, their daughter, whom he had lured to Aulis by the false promise that she was to marry Achilles.
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