Clytemnestra Clytemnestra Clytemnestra (; , "Klytaimnḗstra", ) was the wife of Agamemnon and queen of Mycenae (or sometimes Argos) in ancient Greek legend. In the "Oresteia" by Aeschylus, she murdered Agamemnon – said by Euripides to be her second husband – and the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom he had taken as war prize following the sack of Troy; however, in Homer's "Odyssey", her role in Agamemnon's death is unclear and her character is significantly more subdued. Her Greek name "Klytaimnḗstra" is also sometimes Latinized as Clytaemnestra. It is commonly glossed as "famed for her suitors". However, this form is a later
Greek mythology in popular culture to name its equipment such as the Nike missile project and the Navy having over a dozen ships named from Greek mythology. Greek mythology has been the source for names for a number of ships in the British navy as well as the Australian Royal Navy which has also named a training facility in Victoria called HMAS Cerebus. The Canadair CP-107 Argus of the Royal Canadian Air Force is named in honor of both the hundred eyed Argus Panoptes the "all seeing" and Odysseus' dog Argus who was the only one who identified Odysseus upon his return home. Many celestial