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 Fairy Book". In C. S. Lewis's retelling of Cupid and Psyche, "Till We Have Faces", the narrator is Psyche's sister. Roberta Gellis's "Shimmering Splendor" is a retelling of Cupid and Psyche. The Italian poet Dante Alighieri used characters from the legend of Troy in his Divine Comedy, placing the Greek heroes in hell to show his contempt for their actions. Poets of the Renaissance began to widely write about Greek mythology, and "elicited as much praise for borrowing or reworking" such material as they did for truly original work. The poet John Milton used figures from classical mythology to "further