Clytemnestra In old versions of the story, on returning from Troy, Agamemnon is murdered by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. In some later versions Clytemnestra helps him or does the killing herself in his own home. The best-known version is that of Aeschylus: Agamemnon, having arrived at his palace with his concubine, the Trojan princess Cassandra, in tow and being greeted by his wife, entered the palace for a banquet while Cassandra remained in the chariot. Clytemnestra waited until he was in the bath, and then entangled him in a cloth net and stabbed him. Trapped in the web,
Ganymede (mythology) teeth. And only then, only after I had felt that first rush of improbable carnal lust, did it occur to me that this angel was a man. Ganymede is named by various ancient Greek and Roman authors: Ganymede (mythology) In Greek mythology, Ganymede or Ganymedes (; ; Ancient Greek: Γανυμήδης "Ganymēdēs") is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. Homer describes Ganymede as the most beautiful of mortals, and in one version of the myth Zeus falls in love with his beauty and abducts him in the form of an eagle to serve as cup-bearer in Olympus. The myth was