| 单词 | Clytemnestra |
| 例句 | When the Greek soldiers at Aulis came to get Iphigenia where she was waiting for the summons to death, her mother beside her, she forbade Clytemnestra to go with her to the altar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw Clytemnestra and gasped, “Orestes—alive—here.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z All of his immediate family, his wife Clytemnestra, his children, Iphigenia, Orestes and Electra, were as well known as he was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It had waited ever since the Queen, Clytemnestra, had come back from Aulis, where she had seen her daughter die. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So she brooded through the bitter days of the long years that followed, while Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled the land. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “No more blood for you and me,” Clytemnestra said to Aegisthus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Let Clytemnestra see to her and treat her well. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be joyful news to Clytemnestra and Aegisthus who had always feared what he might do, and they would certainly want to see the messengers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Clytemnestra would fade beside her if there had been a Norse Aeschylus to write her story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Or: “They admit that Agamemnon was killed by Clytemnestra; yet despite this they say that I ought not to have avenged my father.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The central theme of Aeschylus’s Eumenides is the trial of Orestes, the prince of Argos, for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The wife of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, has all the foreground to herself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time that a red carpet was rolled out may have been in “The Oresteia” when Clytemnestra orders her handmaidens to lay down crimson tapestries for the return of her long-absent husband, Agamemnon. Toronto Film Festival: Separating Contenders From Pretenders 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Nothing tops a scene of incredible violence in which her mother, Clytemnestra, kills Agamemnon to avenge her death. Review | Natalie Haynes’s ‘A Thousand Ships’ brilliantly reframes the Trojan War 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z This reflects Tóibín’s own loss of faith, but it’s particularly interesting because “House of Names” maintains the fierce tension between Clytemnestra’s atheism and Electra’s piety as they pursue their competing futures. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The City Center season will include “Clytemnestra” and Graham’s “Appalachian Spring” and “The Rite of Spring.” Martha Graham Dance Company Recovers 2014-03-07T17:35:44Z Mr. El-Dabh’s most famous composition is almost certainly the score for “Clytemnestra,” one of four ballets for which Ms. Graham commissioned him. Halim El-Dabh, Composer of Martha Graham Ballets, Dies at 96 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z He endows Clytemnestra with a hybrid voice that sounds both strangely modern and ancient. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Marquez’s Clytemnestra arrives in a cart with her infant son, Orestes, bundled in her arms and her virgin daughter Iphigenia by her side. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z While Electra clings to her faith that the gods will bring justice, Clytemnestra says, “I live alone in the shivering, solitary knowledge that the time of the gods has passed.” Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z But the opera, which focuses on father-adoring Electra’s plot to murder her mother, doesn’t include this explanation for Clytemnestra’s original act. A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The color evokes the blood that was spilled at Troy and signals the blood that will pour from Agamemnon when he’s killed by Clytemnestra, who holds him responsible the death of their daughter, Iphigenia. Toronto Film Festival: Separating Contenders From Pretenders 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The liberties the playwright and director take with the trilogy — completed in about 2½ hours, with one intermission — include eliminating some characters, such as Aegisthus, Clytemnestra’s lover, who is implicated in Agamemnon’s death. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z With the exceptions of Marquez, who plays Clytemnestra like a gathering storm, and Jim Ortlieb, who turns the old servant into an alarmed busybody, the company isn’t up to the challenge. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The novel’s action picks up here when Clytemnestra is teetering atop a precarious kingdom. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z As recounted in plays by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles, Electra’s mother, Clytemnestra, murders her husband as revenge for him killing another of their daughters many years earlier. A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Chieko Naito's Clytemnestra towers in her wheelchair, constantly attended by a nurse, as if her attempts to justify her murder of her husband, Agamemnon, are in danger of bringing on a seizure. Waiting for Orestes: Electra – Edinburgh review 2012-08-13T11:52:13Z Tóibín’s reverence for the ancient texts is perfectly married to his modern sensibility — a union even Clytemnestra could celebrate. Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z There is, Mr. Warlikowski said, no moment “when Clytemnestra would say to Electra: ‘Yes, I did kill your father — because he killed my daughter, and your sister.’” A Director Brings Cerebral, Sexy Style to Opera Classics 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Graham often used mythology as inspiration for dances, including for “Night Journey” and “Clytemnestra.” Lucinda Childs Gets Off the Floor in New Work for the Graham Company 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Before Clytemnestra does away with Agamemnon, her lover has his own thirst for blood. ‘Balkan Bordello’ Review: A Tragic Tale Reborn for a Time of War 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z When Elektra and Clytemnestra wrestle each other over a loaf of bread, you fear for them. Review: ‘Elektra’ Runs Wild, With Ann Liv Young 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Charlotte Hellekant, though occasionally a bit strident in the upper register, establishes Clytemnestra as another powerful ally of Iphigenia. Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z Such was the woeful case of a certain Princess Iphigenia, the beautiful daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The following year, she was Clytemnestra in a Circle in the Square production of “Iphigenia in Aulis.” Irene Papas, Actress in ‘Zorba the Greek’ and Greek Tragedies, Dies at 96 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The most entertaining sequence, though, is the murder of Agamemnon in his bath by his wife, Clytemnestra. Swan Lake; Love and War 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z The central character in each opera is Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the subject of each opera is human sacrifice. Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z Cross that woman with Greek mythology, and you get something like Clytemnestra, the furious matriarch who dominates Tóibín’s new novel, “House of Names.” Colm Tóibín’s ‘House of Names’ gives voice to a furious mother 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The theater has been shocking audiences since Clytemnestra hacked Agamemnon to death in Aeschylus' tragedy. 'Taste' and 'Backyard' revel in gore and lack style 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z The company is offering shorter versions of the second act of “Clytemnestra” and “Dark Meadow Suite.” Early Martha Graham: Deep Movement, Eternal Mysteries 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z She is a peroxided Clytemnestra of a character – trashy, American and emphatically nothing like the cut-glass-accented aristocrats she is most famous for playing. Nicolas Winding Refn says he made Only God Forgives 'like a pornographer' 2013-05-22T12:18:43Z But there is a chaos to the production that has nothing to do with the disorder of the little world it depicts, inside Clytemnestra’s Balkan Express Motel, where she and Agamemnon raised their children. ‘Balkan Bordello’ Review: A Tragic Tale Reborn for a Time of War 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Gray, an elegant and affecting presence in “An Octoroon” and Ms. Chavkin’s production of “Natasha, Pierre,” here lacks the regal fury to convince as Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra, and his self-serving brother, Menelaus. Review: A Modern Makeover for ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z But Ms. Hinkson’s heart belonged to the Graham repertoire, which increasingly provided her with great roles and success in works like “Cave of the Heart,” “Seraphic Dialogue” and “Clytemnestra.” Mary Hinkson, a Star for Martha Graham, Dies at 89 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Although Clytemnestra has lived in fear of her son’s return, when she hears that he has died, relief for her own safety is movingly mixed with a paroxysm of maternal grief. ‘Electra’ Stars Kristin Scott Thomas at the Old Vic Theater 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Only the scene where Clytemnestra counsels her daughter to grit her teeth and bear it is persuasive and sobering. At Salzburg Festival, Directing Slow and Fast 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Pereira’s stirring Electra, keeping watch over her father’s grave like a bird protecting a nest, proves to be her mother’s daughter, nursing a lust for revenge as ungovernable as Clytemnestra’s. Review | Michael Kahn turns to a timeless play from ancient Greece to send off his career 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z In Icke’s “Oresteia,” mirroring the violence is never the intention; we encounter the war only through the perspective of the family, more precisely through Orestes, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. The Theater at War 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z A recent visit revealed Anna-Alisa Belous, a dressmaker with the troupe, putting the final touches on a cape from “Clytemnestra,” with its bright green, pink and red appliqués of flames and wild animals. Martha Graham Dance Company Recovers 2014-03-07T17:35:44Z Scholars have generally ranked “Tauride” somewhat above “Aulide,” perhaps because the characters’ dreams, and Orestes’ guilt pangs over the slaying of Clytemnestra, seem to prefigure Freud. Review: Iphigenia Travels From Aulis to Tauris (and Back Again) on Brussels Stage 2009-12-16T07:25:00Z At City Center, the company will perform a one-act version of “Clytemnestra,” originally conceived to fill an evening. Martha Graham Dance Company Recovers 2014-03-07T17:35:44Z Certainly there’s little beauty in the treatment of the text here, although, as Clytemnestra, Ms. Quick bears herself with a silken dignity becoming a queen, and gives an admirable and effective performance. ‘Electra’ Stars Kristin Scott Thomas at the Old Vic Theater 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Aftermath, wrote Long last March, "is crammed with mad, flowery metaphors and hifalutin creative-writing experiments", including "hectic passages on Greek tragedy" in which she compares herself with Clytemnestra and Oedipus. Hatchet Job of the Year goes to assault on Rachel Cusk 2013-02-12T20:30:01Z That engagement will feature the second act of Graham’s “Clytemnestra,” with Noguchi’s spears, throne, bier and other props; also on the program are Graham’s “Maple Leaf Rag” and two works by other choreographers. The painful truth about those Noguchi stage designs 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “Actually Callas and Clytemnestra have a lot in common, aside from being Greek and really, really disappointed by their men,” said Mr. Wadsworth, who brings an extensive opera background to the project. A Tough Mama Tries to Find Her Inner Diva 2011-06-23T23:07:53Z Something you don’t want to hear after getting married: “Now that’s a coincidence. My birth mother’s name was Clytemnestra de Nunkyhaven, too!” Style Invitational Week 1518: The Style Expirational 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Helen and Clytemnestra are princesses of Sparta, both married off by their father as pawns in service of stronger alliances. 10 novels making fresh fiction out of ancient myths 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Before “Moonstruck,” Ms. Dukakis subsisted as a stage actress, playing classical and modern tragic parts from Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra to Eugene O’Neill’s Mary Tyrone. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Before “Moonstruck,” Dukakis subsisted as a stage actress, playing classical and modern tragic parts from Aeschylus’ Clytemnestra to Eugene O’Neill’s Mary Tyrone. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z The crime was thought particularly heinous as the killer was the victim’s wife, Clytemnestra. From Clytemnestra to Villanelle: why are we fascinated by women who kill? 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z The bones are the same: Agamemnon returns triumphant from the Trojan War, where his wife, Clytemnestra, exacts vengeance on him for sacrificing their favorite daughter to the gods. Opinion | What the theater has taught me about Washington 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Both the chorus and Clytemnestra compare Cassandra’s lament to birdsong. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Clytemnestra was another iconic Greek woman whose story inspired artists down the centuries. Erotic fresco unearthed in Pompeii 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z Four women from Greek mythology — Clytemnestra, Medea, Antigone and Cassandra — have been reincarnated through time, doomed to repeat bloody acts of revenge, until reaching 1960 Orange, N.J. The week ahead in SoCal theater, Nov. 18-25: 'Cost of Living,' 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern' and more 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “I thought, I’m going to have to make Orestes’ murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, psychologically possible rather than just spring it on the reader,” says Tóibín. ‘There is a certain amount of glee at the sheer, sheer foolishness of Brexit’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z His wife, Clytemnestra, believed his ruse and led their young daughter to what turned out to be her death in a blood sacrifice on the eve of the Trojan War. Review: ‘House of Names’ is family drama on a mythic stage 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Irish novelist continues in the ancient storytelling tradition by reinterpreting the stories of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and Orestes. Colm Tóibín builds new stories onto a mythic ‘House of Names’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Clytemnestra was the leader, the one who set the agenda. In the modern world she would announce there was no such thing as society, or issue savage memos from the corner office. Colm Tóibín: how I rewrote a Greek tragedy 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z In Aeschylus’ play “Agamemnon,” the titular king’s homecoming from the Trojan War is marked by his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who offers him a red carpet on which to walk. The red carpet isn't actually red, and other secrets underfoot at the Oscars 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z On the program: the second act of Graham’s “Clytemnestra,” a taut, feminist view of the backstory to the Greek queen’s murder of her husband. The museum, classical music, dance and theater events you shouldn’t miss in 2017 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z From Eve to Clytemnestra to Lady Macbeth, powerful female figures stir up deep-seated and irrational fears of women’s proximity to power. It wasn’t just “fake news” presenting a fake Hillary Clinton: She was held to impossible standards 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Living “alone in the shivering solitary knowledge that the time of the gods has passed,” Clytemnestra commands the first 70 pages with her hypnotic words, drawing us on with dreadful inevitability from slaughter to slaughter. Colm Tóibín builds new stories onto a mythic ‘House of Names’ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z The novel also uses the story of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and their children as part of its source. Colm Tóibín: how I rewrote a Greek tragedy 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Clytemnestra hacks up her husband Agamemnon with an axe. The Vocabularist: 'Tragedy' originally meant 'goat-song' - BBC News 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z This leads to two sets of twins hatching from eggs: Helen and Clytemnestra, and Pollux and Castor. Orphan Black's third season complicates its pulpy joys 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Clytemnestra and her paramour slay Agamemnon, and go free. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z At the sides are reliefs representing the story of Clytemnestra and �gisthus,—the Theban brothers,—the sacrifice of Clytemnestra,—and Pyrrhus slaying the infant Astyanax. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z When I began to study closely a late play by Euripides called Iphigenia in Aulis, however, I began to see Clytemnestra as more complex, her wounded voice as more needy and uncertain. Colm Tóibín: how I rewrote a Greek tragedy 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z "We women," says Clytemnestra in Eschylus, when meditating the murder of her husband, and in reply to an attendant who was praising the gentleness of the sex, "We women are—what we are." Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z After seeing Ms. Graham’s “Clytemnestra” on television at age 20, she moved to Manhattan and spent five years auditioning for the company, while partying all night and working as a waitress, she said. Character Study: Denise Vale, the Quirky Despot of Dance 2012-03-17T21:22:54Z There are also a number of songs, Egisthus and Clytemnestra having just finished a love song when the messenger announces the avenger's approach. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z She's a trifle too much of a tragedy queen for my taste: a Lady Macbeth, or a Beatrice Cenci, or a Clytemnestra. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z Agamemnon, Cassandra, Clytemnestra,—this trio of ghosts will serve to fill up for us the ancient gateway. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z He was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Ah, Clytemnestra, 'tis the owl—the blithe and tuneful owl! The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z And if pictures like his "Phryne," his "Clytemnestra," his "Electra," and even his wholly charming "Bath of Psyche," are considered from this point of view, their resemblance to beautifully tinted sculpture is apparent enough. Leighton 2011-08-02T02:00:21.573Z Clytemnestra has murdered Agamemnon, her husband and king. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The tragic poets, however, make Clytemnestra throw a net over her husband while he was in his bath, and kill him with the assistance of Ægisthus, in revenge for the sacrifice of her daughter Iphigenia. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z This act, however justified by the guilt of Clytemnestra, and the express command of the gods, was abhorrent to nature, and could not pass unavenged. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Clytemnestra—wife, embrace me ... we both have much to forgive!' The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z "Clytemnestra from the battlements of Argos watches for the beacon fires which are to announce the return of Agamemnon" is, in every sense, a contrast to the "Antique Juggling Girl." The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z And though she fell—by Clytemnestra slain— She smiled on Death who eased her misery. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z The character of Clytemnestra is finely marked—a high-spirited, artful, close, determined, dangerous woman. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Here he announced himself to Clytemnestra as a messenger from Strophius, bringing news of the death of her son Orestes. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z But Clytemnestra suddenly, with a kitten-like girlishness that sat but ill upon her, pounced playfully upon the weapon. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z There is the grandeur of Greek tragedy in Mr. Leighton's 'Clytemnestra watching for the signal of her husband's return from Troy.' The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Here lies Clytemnestra, a model of the wifely virtues, whom an inconsolable spouse deplores. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z The murder of Clytemnestra by her son is described in the second play of the Trilogy, called the Choëphoræ or the Libation Pourers. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Clytemnestra, the queen of Agamemnon, believing, and perhaps hoping, that her husband would not return, had given a promise of marriage to Ægisthus, who already considered himself king of Mycenæ. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z It was expected that Clytemnestra would have let him come down for good when she was informed of Agamemnon's death on such excellent authority, but she would not hear of such a thing. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Hodgson, A.R.A., praises are bestowed on this picture and the "Moorish Garden" at the expense of "Clytemnestra" and the "Antique Juggling Girl." The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z And she had handed over her daughter to Gaunt as calmly as Clytemnestra handed over Electra to the swine-herd. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z He married Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndarus, king of Sparta, by whom he had three daughters Chrysothemis, Iphigenia and Electra, and one son Orestes. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Agamemnon was assassinated immediately on his arrival at Mycenæ; according to the tragic poets, it was Clytemnestra who dealt the fatal blow. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z Clytemnestra and �gisthus, who had happened to come out while all this excitement was at its height, found themselves absolutely ignored. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z The women and that dear little girl in the courtyard of your Jew's house will outlive all the "Clytemnestras," &c.; they live with blood in their veins, the others are but galvanised corpses. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z The plot runs thus.—It is night in the Greek camp at Aulis; Agamemnon calls an Old Slave outside his tent and gives him secretly a letter to carry to Clytemnestra. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z By the advice and artifice of Ulysses, Menelaus became her husband, Agamemnon marrying Clytemnestra; and Tyndarus, their father, monarch of Sparta, assisted in recovering for them their father's kingdom. Heathen Mythology Returning home after the fall of Troy, he was treacherously assassinated by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her paramour, �gisthus, Agamemnon's cousin. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Clytemnestra's sinister smiles always made �gisthus feel exactly as if something was disagreeing with him—so he stayed. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Agamemnon returns to Argos after the capture of Troy, his wife Clytemnestra expressing deep joy at his return. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes He tries to persuade Clytemnestra to go home and leave the child with him; she is perplexed and flatly refuses to go. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Clytemnestra gladly gave her consent; but when they came to Aulis, Iphigenia saw the bloody preparation for her sacrifice. Heathen Mythology Or whether Clytemnestra, when she was on the point of stabbing her son, exclaimed "Au Reste?" Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Clytemnestra bowed coldly, and said she was sure it would be vastly amusing. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z He has brought with him as a captive Cassandra the seer who, suddenly swooning, sees in prophetic frenzy Agamemnon's death and her own at the hand of Clytemnestra and her paramour, Aegistheus. Readings from Latin Verse With Notes Clytemnestra had with the help of her lover Aegisthus murdered her husband Agamemnon; her son Orestes slays her in obedience to Apollo's command, and his sister Electra aids him. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z After the fall of Troy the beautiful Cassandra came to the share of Agamemnon, and she foretold that his wife Clytemnestra would put him to death. Heathen Mythology His Clytemnestra is a ruling queen exercising all the functions of royalty, but her powerful nature has been debased by grief and sin. Greek Women Clytemnestra hoped she might be able to induce her to stay longer, a week was such a very short time. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Penelope and Clytemnestra were left in charge of the realms of their husbands during their absence in Troy; the beautiful Chloris ruled as queen in Pylos. The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy The next scene is between the mother, father and daughter; Clytemnestra, full of questions about the marriage, Iphigenîa full of excitement and shy tenderness, which expresses itself in special affectionateness towards her father. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The Clytemnestra of Euripides is so interesting, that the divine vengeance, which is the main subject of the drama, seems almost unjust. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century Clytemnestra was violently condemned, less because she yielded to the seductions of �gisthus than because her crime led to the murder of her husband. Greek Women Agamemnon, the king of men, was apparently in difficulties, and it was only too probable that this was Clytemnestra's fell work. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Orestes, prince of Argos, you must remember, has avenged on his mother Clytemnestra the murder of his father, king Agamemnon, on his return from Troy. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 At the door of the tent he meets Clytemnestra, who greets him with effusive pleasure and speaks of "the marriage that is about to unite them." Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Achilles, Prometheus, Clytemnestra, Dido—what modern poem presents personages as interesting, even to us moderns, as these personages of an ‘exhausted past’? English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century She must have been beautiful and clever, for Agamemnon prized her far above Clytemnestra. Greek Women He made himself known, and she admitted him into the house, where he fulfilled his stern charge, and killed both Clytemnestra and Ægisthus, then celebrated their funeral rites with all due solemnity. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History Upon Agamemnon's return to Mycene, after an absence of many years, he is murdered by Aegysthos with the connivance of Clytemnestra. Woman under socialism He is interrupted by a Messenger who announces that Iphigenîa has come and her mother, Clytemnestra, is with her. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z In the Academy of 1874 appeared four pictures, the most important being the heroic painting,—Clytemnestra from the Battlements of Argos watches for the Beacon-fires which are to announce the Return of Agamemnon. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work Helen and Penelope, Clytemnestra and Andromache, and the other celebrated dames of heroic times, stand in the foreground of the picture, and are noted for their beauty, their virtues, their crimes, or their sufferings. Greek Women By Proteus’ advice, Menelaus returned to Egypt, and made the sacrifices to the gods he had forgotten before, after which he safely reached Sparta, on the day of Clytemnestra’s obsequies. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, avenges the murder of his father, at the instigation of Apollo and Athene, by slaying his mother and Aegysthos. Woman under socialism Clytemnestra, who has watched like a drowning woman to see which way the youth's fierce vanity would leap, throws herself at his feet in gratitude; "Shall her daughter, also, come and embrace his knees?" Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z In this picture, the figure of Clytemnestra is seen standing erect, with hands folded, supporting the drapery that clothes a majestic form. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work Agamemnon, king of men, has returned to his fatherland, but merely to find treason and death at the hands of �gisthus, the new lord of Clytemnestra, his wife. Greek Women His wife Clytemnestra had never forgiven him for the loss of Iphigenia, and had listened to his cousin Ægisthus, who wanted to marry her. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History The story is this: Agamemnon, King of Mycene, and husband of Clytemnestra, sacrifices his daughter, Iphigenia, upon the command of the oracle on his expedition against Troy. Woman under socialism Mr. Drew is spreading a highly idealised account of her and says that to see you together was to see Antigone in the clutches of Clytemnestra. Tante Athenæum:" "There is the grandeur of Greek tragedy in Mr. Leighton's Clytemnestra watching for the signal of her husband's return from Troy. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work He refused to be presented to the celebrated female autocrat, Catherine II., whom he stigmatizes as "a philosophical Clytemnestra." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 She had also two daughters, named Helen and Clytemnestra, and Helen was growing into the most beautiful woman in the world. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History Such heaps and heaps of things as I shall have to tell you, dear Clytemnestra, when I get home! Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly My Dearest Clytemnestra,—Do you miss me? and are you wondering why I do not write? Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Clytemnestra from the battlements of Argos watches for the beacon fires which are to announce the return of Agamemnon. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work Six hundred mules on the stage in the acting of Clytemnestra, or three thousand golden goblets in The Trojan Horse—what delight could they give you? The Life of Cicero Volume II. These children, in the fable, had been hatched from two huge swans’ eggs; Castor and Clytemnestra were in one egg, and Pollux and Helen in the other. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History In the Electra of the same author, during the strophes of one chorus, Orestes and Electra effect the death of the husband of Clytemnestra; during another, murder their unhappy mother herself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Perhaps you don't know what the "Sfinks" is, but I will tell you some day, when I begin your education, my poor Clytemnestra. Harper's Young People, July 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly In April it was finished, and at his father's request Mark reluctantly sent it with his Clytemnestra to the annual exhibition. Moods Incidents from the Greek drama are of common occurrence, such as the death of Agamemnon, Orestes and Pylades meeting Electra, the death of Clytemnestra, the Furies pursuing Orestes. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Argos came into the power of Agamemnon, who had married Clytemnestra, the sister of Castor and Pollux, while his brother Menelaus married the beautiful Helen. Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History In Euripides, Clytemnestra having asked Agamemnon when he intended to give Iphigenia in marriage to Achilles, he replies, "When the full moon comes forth with good luck." Moon Lore Clytemnestra & Iphigenia, though defective, are indeed better sustained than the rest, but the consequence of the Atridae hardly survives the first act, and Achilles never maintains any consequence at all. A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq. Two of these women, Helen and Penelope, are still alive and do not belong to the realm of Hades; the ghost of the third, Clytemnestra, does not appear. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary He was feeling deep sensations about Clytemnestra’s misfortunes—though he controlled his features in the most gentlemanly manner, and rose composedly at his station, letting a well-bred glance of pity fall upon the gum-chewers. The Job An American Novel Hearing her mother's step she entreats Elektra to go away, Clytemnestra having had evil dreams about her son's coming home and killing her. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Clytemnestra told Iphigenia to be reserved with Achilles if she could be so and win her point, but to win her point. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals For what is the pleasure of a train of six hundred mules in the "Clytemnestra," or three thousand bowls in the "Trojan Horse," or gay-coloured armour of infantry and cavalry in some battle? The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Note, then, the gradation of the three: Clytemnestra is the fallen unrestored; Helen is the fallen restored; Penelope is the unfallen, who keeps a home for her absent husband during twenty years. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Clytemnestra has every advantage, Penelope every difficulty: the trial of the former lasted only half as long as that of the latter. Short Studies on Great Subjects Clytemnestra dismisses her servants, who tries to warn her against her daughter. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Thus Orestes, having murdered his mother Clytemnestra, was haunted by the Furies. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) The classic picture and interpretation of this phase of family development is contained in the great drama of the Greeks, the trilogy of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Electra, Orestes, and the Erinnyes. The Family and it's Members We should not fail to cast a separate glance at the three typical women of the Trojan epoch—Helen, Clytemnestra, Penelope—in contrast with the three heroes already described. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary One design, at least, which Homer had before him was to vindicate the character of the virtuous matron against the stain which Clytemnestra had inflicted on it. Short Studies on Great Subjects Clytemnestra, vainly guessing at his name, is reminded of her son Orestes, whom the mother has made to disappear, while he was a child. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas The earlier story of Alboin's youth, if less valuable for emphatic tragedy, being without the baleful figure of a Rosamond or a Clytemnestra, is even more perfect as an example of tragic complication. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature Sir Richard and Lady 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 And that was all I ever knew of whatever obscure pressures had shaped Dallisa into an austere and tragic Clytemnestra, and Miellyn into a pixie runaway. The Door Through Space The feminine types, Helen and Penelope, or Clytemnestra and Antigone, are as distinct as the masculine types, Agamemnon and Ulysses, or OEdipus and Philoctetes. The Friendships of Women Clytemnestra's terror is appeased by the appearance of her attendants, one of whom whispers to her the welcome news of Orestes' death. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Aristotle knew that psychological analysis and moral rhetoric were not the authors of Clytemnestra or Oedipus. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature The same expression, "my moral Clytemnestra," is applied to his wife in a letter to Lord Blessington, dated April 6, 1823. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 Clytemnestra never plied the sword more ruthlessly than this jealous woman doomed to destruction the man who had spurned her love. The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow How much of Æschylean imagery, I reflected, is drawn from this old fisher's art—the toils of Clytemnestra and the tragedy of Psyttaleia rising to my mind. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Elektra, standing erect on the threshold, hears Clytemnestra's scream and exclaims: "Hit her once more!" The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Because she was no Alcestis need she be called a Medea or a Clytemnestra? Roads from Rome The shade of Clytemnestra in the Eumenides, however, does not prophesy. Greek and Roman Ghost Stories The Clytemnestra glance came into Miss Willoughby’s grey eyes for a moment, but she was not to be put out of humour. p. The Disentanglers Those screams bring on Clytemnestra's servants together with Chrysothemis, all trying to open the closed door. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Clytemnestra agreed to the proposal, happy at the thought of her daughter being married to so great a prince as Achilles. The Story of Troy Should he go to her as a suppliant and pay in reiterated torture for Clytemnestra's embrace and for Juno's regilded favours? Roads from Rome Clytemnestra stands by the shore with the Queen of Scots. Greek and Roman Ghost Stories No reader could possibly think that this Ghost was meant to be an hallucination; yet Clytemnestra cannot see it. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth Meanwhile he has just privately printed a drama called 'Clytemnestra,' too ambitious because after Æschylus, but full of promise indeed. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II As Clytemnestra had taken part in the murder of Agamemnon, Orestes slew her also. The Story of Troy In his castle there is no one to resist or criticise him—unless indeed his wife happen to be a lady, like Clytemnestra, of masculine resolution. Lost Leaders As a last resource Agamemnon now tells Clytemnestra that Achilles, the lover of her daughter, is false, hoping that this will drive her from the camp. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Fell the hero in his home, Though Clytemnestra's and Ægisthus' wiles? Iphigenia in Tauris Before the despairing soul on the trundle-bed could pierce the vulnerable heel of this, the door opened slowly to the broad shape of Clytemnestra. The Seeker He reached his kingdom and city of Mycenæ in safety, but he was there cruelly murdered by Æ-gisʹthus, a relative of his, whom his wife, Clytemnestra, had married during his absence. The Story of Troy Agamemnon, in his weakness, wrote a letter to Clytemnestra his queen, telling her to bring the maiden, Iphigenia, to Aulis, there to be wedded to the bravest of all the Greeks. Hero Tales Clytemnestra calls upon Iphigenia to thrust her betrayer from her bosom, and Iphigenia replies so heroically that it seems as though Agamemnon's plot to save his daughter's life might actually succeed. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Agamemnon had a cousin Aegisthos, who became the paramour of Clytemnestra. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Clytemnestra warmly rebuked him, first simulating the frown of the irritated. The Seeker I will, for thou advisest well; but thou, Call Clytemnestra, if she be within. The Seven Plays in English Verse And when he had written the letter, he sealed it, and sent it by a swift messenger to Clytemnestra at Mycenas. Hero Tales Clytemnestra passionately entreats Achilles to save her daughter, which he promises to do, though Iphigenia professes herself ready to obey her father. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had a son Orestes, who avenged his father's murder. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 As to Allan, who made abstracts of the winter's study, Clytemnestra and her transcendent relative agreed that he would one day be a power in the land. The Seeker The illusion intended is that the Elders have entered the Palace and discovered Clytemnestra. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes But Clytemnestra was not well pleased, neither could the king persuade her at all that she should return to Mycenae. Hero Tales He has hardly spoken the words when shouts of joy announce the arrival of Clytemnestra and Iphigenia. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Clytemnestra is not like Gertrude, but a much grander and more tragical figure. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Of course, Clytemnestra is a dear soul, and I truly, love her, but her advantages in an educational way have been meagre. The Seeker At the opening of the Agamemnon we find Clytemnestra alienated from her husband and secretly befriended with his ancestral enemy, Aigisthos. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes When Clytemnestra overheard these words, she hastened to the door, and offered the hero her hand. Hero Tales After another farewell scene with her mother Iphigenia is led off, while Clytemnestra, seeing in imagination her daughter under the knife of the priest, bursts forth into passionate blasphemy. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. In reality Artemis had saved Igphigenia; and though Clytemnestra did not know this, in assuming the position of her daughter's avenger she put herself under the karmic ban. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 But the alarm of Clytemnestra was not to be put down by this. The Seeker The greatest and most human character of the whole play is Clytemnestra. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Then Clytemnestra said, "Why, indeed, should you, who are about to marry my daughter, be ashamed to give me your hand?" Hero Tales You could imagine her, when she did not speak, as Semiramis, Medea, Clytemnestra! Esther Aeschylus has kept Electra and Clytemnestra apart; here we see them freely in the hard unloveliness of their daily wrangles. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Castor and Polydeuces were sons of Zeus and Leda, brothers of Helen, and half-brothers of Clytemnestra, whose father was the mortal Tyndareus. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse He admits, of course, no approach to a love-scene; he uses no sophisms; but he does make us see through Clytemnestra's eyes and feel through her passions. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Byron speaks, in ‘The Sketch,’ of her peculiar truthfulness; and even in the ‘Clytemnestra’ poem, when accusing her of lying, he speaks of her as departing from ‘The early truth that was her proper praise.’ Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Since his return, Nestor has been saddened by the death of Agamemnon, slain on his arrival at Mycenae by his faithless wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegistheus. The Book of the Epic Clytemnestra's speech to the Chorus, just before Agamemnon's return, is a perfect marvel in that way. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Clytemnestra, longing for peace, must rejoice in Electra's degradation. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse It is that Clytemnestra is conceived as being really "possessed" by the Daemon of the House when she commits her crime. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes The accusations of the ‘Blackwood,’ in 1869, were simply an intensified form of those first concocted by Lord Byron in his ‘Clytemnestra’ poem of 1816. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time What charm is there in having six hundred mules in the Clytemnestra or three thousand supernumeraries in the Trojan Horse, or cavalry and infantry in foreign equipment in some battle-piece. Roman life in the days of Cicero In it Clytemnestra comes out to greet the returning Agamemnon. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He induced Clytemnestra to send her to him, by the pretext that Achilles had asked for her in marriage. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse But Clytemnestra and the House should hear These tidings first, though I their health may share. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes ‘Lady Byron has been called “The moral Clytemnestra of her lord.” Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time The Furies reply to Clytemnestra's bleeding shade with inarticulate roars. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations It does not seem necessary for Jove to turn his attention to Clytemnestra, the partner of Ægisthus’s guilt. The Humour of Homer and Other Essays Somewhat surprisingly, Sophocles, although by his time Electra and Clytemnestra had become leading figures in the story and the mother-murder its essential climax, preserves a very similar atmosphere. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse There may well have been a tradition that Agamemnon, like the Great King of Persia, used a chain of beacons across the Aegean.—Note how vividly Clytemnestra's imagination is working in her excitement. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes According to the tragedy, Clytemnestra secretly hates her husband Agamemnon, whom she professes to love, and wishes to put him out of the way that she may marry her lover, Ægistheus. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Certainly Queen Clytemnestra eagerly awaited word of the fall of the city. Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty The ghost of Clytemnestra rises from the underworld, and calls upon the Chorus to pursue. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 ORESTES, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, now in banishment. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse Note that his first speech confirms all the worst fears suggested by Clytemnestra. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Electra was the daughter of Clytemnestra, in the Greek poem, who lived to condemn her wicked mother, and to call on her brother to avenge the father. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and the mother of Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes; killed her husband, and was killed by her son, Orestes, seven years after. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Delsarte--he sang certain airs written for women in Gluck's operas--had selected Clytemnestra's song: "A priest, encircled by a cruel throng, Shall on my daughter lay his guilty hand." Delsarte System of Oratory AEGISTHUS, usurping King of Argos and Mycenae, now husband of Clytemnestra. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse It seems to me that Aeschylus' imagination realized all the confused passions in Clytemnestra's mind, but that his art was not yet sufficiently developed to make them all clear and explicit. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes He did me the honour once to be a patron of mine, though a great friend of the other branch of the house of Atreus, and the Greek teacher, I believe, of my moral Clytemnestra. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who, with her brother Orestes, avenged the death of her father on his murderers. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Burgraves says that his collection of English sonnets is incomplete because it does not contain your 'Clytemnestra,' which he had not seen when his book went to press. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage Agamemnon's child, and the mother of me Clytemnestra, the evil Queen, Helen's sister. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse One motive, of course, is obvious: Clytemnestra is tempting Agamemnon to sin or "go too far." The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes She has been called, after his words, the moral Clytemnestra of her husband. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Fell the hero in his home, Through Clytemnestra's and Ægisthus' wiles? The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. So Clytemnestra might have stood, before she laid her hands to the axe. Taquisara He gives us a flash of light, as it were, upon Clytemnestra's mind and then upon Electra's. The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse I imagine her pale, staring in front of her, almost as if in a trance, until terror seizes her at Clytemnestra's greeting in l. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Orestes, Prince of Argos, you must remember, has avenged on his mother Clytemnestra the murder of his father, King Agamemnon, on his return from Troy. Literary and General Lectures and Essays Dares Clytemnestra reach her hand to thee Then may Orestes also draw near her, And say, Behold thy son!—My ancestors, Behold your son, and bid him welcome here. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. When the actress who played the part of Clytemnestra, sung the passage beginning— "I love to see these flattering honours paid." Wonderful Balloon Ascents A great personage insisted on being presented to the charming Clytemnestra. Vanity Fair Instead of which the door opens and there is Clytemnestra: what does she want? The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes The effect was overwhelming when, unable to escape death, Clytemnestra cries out her horrible imprecations. The Ways of Men Clytemnestra is one of the most powerfully presented characters of the Greek drama. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 But it means that, according to the Greek conviction, Orestes was right and Clytemnestra entirely wrong. Twilight in Italy There was a smile upon her lips, sister to that which Clytemnestra may have flaunted in welcome of that old Emperor Agamemnon, come in gory opulence from the sack of Troy Town. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages One victim is not enough.—In the next scene we must understand the cause of Clytemnestra's impatience. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes He had entrusted the cares of the state to his cousin Aegisthus, commending also to his protection Queen Clytemnestra with her two remaining children, Electra and Orestes. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew I then rushed to my mother, Clytemnestra … I stammered … and on leaving the stage I rushed up to my room and began to undress. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt But for all that, the infallible King, the infallible male Self, is dead in Orestes, killed by the furies of Clytemnestra. Twilight in Italy Thy words o'erbear my doubt: for news of good, The ear of age hath ever youth enow: But those within and Clytemnestra's self Would fain hear all; glad thou their ears and mine. The House of Atreus The ferocity of her exultation when Clytemnestra and Aegisthus upbraid each other is terrible, but the picture she draws for Orestes of their mother's life is touched with an exquisite filial pity. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions Now Clytemnestra was a sister of Helen of Troy, and a beautiful woman to see; but her heart was as evil as her face was fair. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Clytemnestra enters, the sternest woman figure in all literature. Authors of Greece When Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon, it was as if a common individual murdered God, to the Greek. Twilight in Italy Awake and hear—for mine own soul I cry— Awake, ye powers of hell! the wandering ghost That once was Clytemnestra calls—Arise! The House of Atreus At last Orestes shows the dagger Electra has given him, and offers it to Clytemnestra, that she may stab Aegisthus with the same weapon with which she killed Agamemnon: Whom then I would call mother. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions Queen Clytemnestra went out to greet him with every show of joy and triumph. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Few dramatic personages have used this device so effectively as Clytemnestra, certainly none with a more fiendish intent. Authors of Greece Yet Gertrude, like Clytemnestra, is the potential murderer of her husband, as Lady Macbeth is murderess, as the daughters of Lear. Twilight in Italy During their song Clytemnestra appears in the background, kindling the altars. The House of Atreus In the last scene, as Clytemnestra steals through the darkness to her husband's chamber, she soliloquizes, with the dagger in her hand: It is the hour; and sunk in slumber now Lies Agamemnon. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions Then and there Orestes killed Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, and appeared before the Argives as their rightful prince. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Aegisthus crosses the stage into the palace to meet a hasty end; seeing the deed, a servant rushes out to call Clytemnestra, while Orestes bursts out from the house and faces his mother. Authors of Greece And after gazing upon him Imperturbably as Clytemnestra looked Upon returning Agamemnon, With a light in her eyes which neither fathomed, She kissed him, And in a calm voice blessed them. Toward the Gulf If Clytemnestra were depicted not as rejoicing in the success of her crime, but repentant and softened by maternal love, then, it is true, her death would no longer be supportable. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature It leaves one very little to add, but I cannot help saying that I think the management of Clytemnestra especially admirable throughout. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions In slaying Clytemnestra, wicked as she was, he had murdered his own mother, a deed hateful to gods and men. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew He then displays the net which Clytemnestra threw around her husband's body and the robe in which she caught his feet; he holds up the garment through which Aegisthus' dagger ran. Authors of Greece And Widow La Rue With the eyes of Clytemnestra Stands at the window and watches him Running and tearing his hair. Toward the Gulf Clytemnestra rebukes her daughter, with whom, however, probably under the influence of the dream, she is milder than usual; she defends her murder of Agamemnon, Electra condemns her for it, but without violent altercation. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Agamemnon has returned from Troy to Argos with his captive Cassandra, and Aegisthus has persuaded Clytemnestra that her husband intends to raise Cassandra to the throne. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions She asked them many questions concerning the fate of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and the warriors against Troy, which they answered as best they could. Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Immediately after learning this story, Clytemnestra makes the first of a number of speeches charged with a dreadful double meaning. Authors of Greece Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon, has been living beneath the hated domination of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, the murderer and murderess of her father. Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles Upon this Clytemnestra, standing at the altar in front of the house, proffers a prayer to Apollo for health and long life, and a secret one for the death of her son. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Clytemnestra confesses that Aegisthus no longer loves her, but she loves him, and she shrinks from Electra's fierce counsel that she shall kill him. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions There is not even a struggle in Clytemnestra's mind. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Achilles meets Clytemnestra and is surprised to hear that he is to marry Iphigeneia, such being the bait which brought Clytemnestra to Aulis. Authors of Greece He went into Clytemnestra House—one of those big houses of business flats and offices—almost at the bottom. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation Clytemnestra comes out, and being informed by him of the death of Orestes, at which tidings Electra assumes a feigned grief, she invites him to enter and partake of their hospitality. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature He enters to find her in tears, and a violent scene between him and Electra follows, in which Clytemnestra interposes. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions There is no more struggle between Clytemnestra and Agamemnon than there is between the spider and the fly who walks into his net. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Giving orders that Cassandra is to be well treated, he passes over the purple carpets, led by Clytemnestra who avows that she would have given many purple carpets to get him home alive. Authors of Greece Then I went into the hall of Clytemnestra House, as if I was looking for somebody. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation At the suggestion of the old man, Orestes and Pylades accompany him with all speed into the house, in order to surprise Clytemnestra while she is still alone. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Yet I believe that Clytemnestra, through the terrible remorse she feels, the vile treatment which she receives from Aegisthus, and the awful perplexity in which she lives … will be considered sufficiently punished by the spectator. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions She is like the watchman who announces the coming of Agamemnon; Clytemnestra sharpens her ax at the news, and the fatal bath is prepared for the anax andron. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations Clytemnestra commands her servants within the house to welcome him and sends out her son's old nurse Cilissa to take the news to Aegisthus. Authors of Greece Need I relate what Paris did in obedience to the great deity? or Helen? or Clytemnestra? or Ægisthus? La Fiammetta From within the house is heard the shrieks of the affrighted Clytemnestra, her short prayer, her cry of agony under the death-blow. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Then Clytemnestra did not come in time To stay thine arm? Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions Agamemnon, on his return to Greece, was barbarously murdered by his unfaithful queen, Clytemnestra. Mosaics of Grecian History Immediately the ghost of Clytemnestra arises; waking the sleeping forms, she bids them fly after their victim. Authors of Greece Thus at Argos, Ægisthus had won the unholy love of Clytemnestra, wife and queen of Agamemnon, who on his return was murdered by the guilty couple. General History for Colleges and High Schools Clytemnestra, although visited for a moment with a mother's feelings, can scarce conceal her triumphant joy, and invites the messenger to partake of the hospitality of her house. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Clytemnestra comes out with the dagger in her hand: The dagger drips with blood; my hands, my robe, My face—they all are wet with blood. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions The queen, Clytemnestra, enters the inner room, terrible as Lady Macbeth. Mosaics of Grecian History He sent a messenger to Clytemnestra saying he wished to marry their child to Achilles. Authors of Greece Medea, in the Greek tragedy; Clytemnestra, who takes the life of her husband; Orestes, who kills his mother, fill our soul with horror and with pleasure. Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller A servant rushes out, and to warn Clytemnestra gives the alarm at the door of the women's apartment. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature When Agamemnon, in Landor's poem, red from Clytemnestra's axe, reaches the Shades, the Hours bring him their golden goblet. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography The master, on looking at it one day, fancied he saw a slight resemblance in its round red cheeks and mild blue eyes to Clytemnestra. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers The Chorus are past military age, and are come to learn from Clytemnestra why there is sacrifice throughout all Argos. Authors of Greece Orestes, it will be remembered, was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. The Greek View of Life Chrysothemis, Clytemnestra's younger, more submissive, and favourite daughter, approaches with an offering which she is to carry to the grave of her father. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Agamemnon at his return was barbarously murdered by Ægysthus, at the instigation of Clytemnestra his wife, who in his absence had dishonoured his bed with Ægysthus. The Iliad Perhaps it was that Clytemnestra's round curves and plump outlines afforded an extensive pinching surface. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers The quarrel was stopped by Clytemnestra, who had had enough of bloodshed and was content to leave things as they were, if the gods consented thereto. Authors of Greece Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, was murdered by Clytemnestra. The Greek View of Life Clytemnestra, from a dread of unpleasant remarks, has not accompanied him; and Electra undertakes to entice her mother to them by a false message of her being in child-bed. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature The medicine-man Calchas explained that Artemis demanded the sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia, who was then at home with her mother, Clytemnestra. The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides The reverend gentleman heaved a deep sigh, and cast a compassionate glance at the master, then at the children, and then rested his eye on Clytemnestra. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Believing that her daughter was dead, Clytemnestra returned to Argos to plot destruction for her husband, forming an illicit union with his foe Aegisthus, nursing her revenge during the ten years of the siege. Authors of Greece Clytemnestra devoted her life to revenge—she murdered her husband for that he had slain Iphigenia; Orestes sacrificed his life in avenging Agamemnon's death on Clytemnestra. Wisdom and Destiny The old tutor departs with Orestes to conduct him to Aegisthus, and to repair afterwards to Clytemnestra. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature ORESTES, her brother; pursued by Furies for killing his mother, Clytemnestra, who had murdered Agamemnon. The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides It was an amiable weakness of Mrs. Morpher to imagine that, of all her classical progeny, Clytemnestra was particularly the model for M'liss. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Apollo replies with a charge that they are prejudiced in favour of Clytemnestra, whom, though a murderess, they had never tormented. Authors of Greece Ah, you allude to Clytemnestra's faithless love-story, with which, truly, my exalted and virtuous mother cannot be associated. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends And in Voltaire's play neither Orestes nor Electra have anything beyond this in view: Clytemnestra is to be spared; no oracle consigns to her own son the execution of the punishment due to her guilt. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Daughter of Clytemnestra and her king, Give ear! The Iphigenia in Tauris of Euripides For I chose to possess her, Rather, at home: less favour hath Clytemnestra before me, Clytemnestra my wife: unto her Briseis is equal, Equal in form and in stature, in mind and in womanly wisdom. Verses and Translations Clytemnestra replies in a second speech of double significance. Authors of Greece "As Clytemnestra I believe you gratify that very natural wish." The Chronicles of Clovis The accidental and unintentional stabbing of Clytemnestra was borrowed from Crebillon. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, avenged the death of his father by killing his mother. Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier After visiting his father's tomb and sacrificing upon it, according to the rites of the ancients, he made himself known to his sister Electra, and soon after slew both AEgisthus and Clytemnestra. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable But it is the part played by Clytemnestra which fixes the dramatic interest. Authors of Greece The climax came when Clytemnestra annexed some highly complimentary lines, which were to have been addressed to the charioteer by a bevy of admiring Greek damsels, and put them into the mouth of her lover. The Chronicles of Clovis It has something of Hamlet, and something of Clytemnestra and Orestes; but nothing of any of them as it ought to be. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Again, he says in the Odyssey, about Clytemnestra, that “she would none of the foul deed;” that is of the love of Aegisthus, till “the doom of the Gods bound her to her ruin.” Helen of Troy In the poem of Atalanta in Calydon Mr. Swinburne thus describes the little Helen and Clytemnestra, the sisters of Castor and Pollux: Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable The Chorus tell how in consequence of a dream of Clytemnestra they have been sent to offer libations to the dead, to appease their anger and resentment against the murderers. Authors of Greece O wife, thy deeds disgrace The perjured sex, and blacken all the race; And should posterity one virtuous find, Name Clytemnestra, they will curse the kind.' The Odyssey The very speech of Clytemnestra betrays its symbolical import, as much as the attributes of the Furies, the serpents, and their sucking of blood. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature So far the same excuse is made for the murderous Clytemnestra as for the amiable Helen. Helen of Troy As he does in the case of of Clytemnestra. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Electra with a Chorus of Argive girls comes forward, the former describing the insolent conduct of Clytemnestra who holds high revelry on the anniversary of her husband's death and curses Electra for saving Orestes. Authors of Greece For what is the pleasure of a train of six hundred mules in the "Clytemnestra," or three thousand bowls in the "Trojan Horse," or gay-colored armour of infantry and cavalry in some battle? Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero Clytemnestra's ghost now ascends by the charonic stairs, and, passing through the orchestra, appears on the stage. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature The story is powerfully told, and has a legitimate tragic interest, so to speak,—deeper, because more natural, than Girodet's green "Deluge," for instance: or his livid "Orestes," or red-hot "Clytemnestra." The Paris Sketch Book And most pitiful of all that I heard was the voice of the daughter of Priam, of Cassandra, whom hard by me the crafty Clytemnestra slew. The Odyssey Done into English prose She advises her to use good counsel, then departs to pour on Agamemnon's tomb some libations which Clytemnestra offers in consequence of a dream. Authors of Greece I heard Priam's daughter Cassandra scream as Clytemnestra killed her close beside me. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original The memory of his father pleads his excuse; but however much Clytemnestra may have deserved her death, the voice of blood cries from within. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Clytemnestra is not brought on the stage to speak for herself. Essays in Little Verily at the first she would none of the foul deed, the fair Clytemnestra, for she had a good understanding. The Odyssey Done into English prose Torn by her emotions, Clytemnestra can be neither glad nor sorry. Authors of Greece See how many of us fell for Helen's sake, and now it seems that Clytemnestra hatched mischief against you too during your absence.' The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original In the murder of Clytemnestra, and her heart-rending appeals, the poet, without disguising her guilt, has gone to the very verge of what was allowable in awakening our sympathy with her sufferings. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature “Never was Clytemnestra’s kiss sweeter than on the night she slew me,” she quoted, but made the quotation to herself. The Toys of Peace, and other papers King of men! the blinded host Shout:- she lifts her brooding chin: Glad along the joyous din Smiles the grand majestic ghost: Clytemnestra leads him in. Poems — Volume 1 Sophocles' Clytemnestra is a woman, lost as soon as she begins to reason out her misdeeds. Authors of Greece Waiving the invitation of Mrs. Morpher to refreshment and rest, and shading his eyes with his hand to keep out the blue-eyed Clytemnestra's siren glances, he excused himself, and went home. Selected Stories of Bret Harte The subject of the first is the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, on his return from Troy. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Yet unlike her, she remains absolutely human throughout; her weak spot was her maternal affection which made her hesitate, while Clytemnestra was past feeling, "not a drop being left". Authors of Greece His uncle, a broken reed, is saved from committing himself by the entry of Tyndareus, father of Clytemnestra and Helen. Authors of Greece Pylades suggests that he and Orestes should plead their case before the Argive Assembly, which was to try them for murder of Clytemnestra. Authors of Greece The master on looking at it one day fancied he saw a slight resemblance in its round red cheeks and mild blue eyes to Clytemnestra. Selected Stories of Bret Harte In Agamemnon, Cassandra and the chorus, at the close, predict to the haughty Clytemnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus, the punishment which awaits them at the hands of Orestes. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature His Clytemnestra is a feeble creation even by the side of that of Sophocles. Authors of Greece Clytemnestra greets him with hypocritical joy and veneration; she orders her slaves to cover the ground with the most costly embroideries of purple, that it might not be touched by the foot of the conqueror. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Clytemnestra on her arrival querulously defends her past, alleging as her pretext not the death of Iphigeneia but the presence of a rival, Cassandra. Authors of Greece Clytemnestra returns to allure, by friendly speeches, Cassandra also to destruction. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature |
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