person
Clytemnestra
also: Klitaimnesztra
Queen of Mycenae in Greek myth who murdered her husband Agamemnon; in Aeschylus's Oresteia the paradigm of female revenge. Madách cites her as a character whose psychology cannot be imagined as male.
Reading notes
- On Women and Their Vocation §1 Clytemnestra
Clytemnestra, queen of Mycenae in Greek myth, who murdered her husband Agamemnon; one of Madách's examples of a specifically female train of thought that cannot be imagined in a man.
- Studies and Articles §1.1.1 Electra
In Sophocles's Electra, the title heroine and her brother Orestes avenge their father Agamemnon's murder at the hands of Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Madách treats Clytemnestra's claim — that Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia — as a legally strong but morally overridden 'title of right.'