Clytaemnestra

Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra are about to murder Agamemnon

Orestes was pursued by the Furies for committing matricide

Clytaemnestra in Greek mythology was daughter of Leda and Tyndareus, king of Sparta. She was unhappily married to the king of Mycenae, Agamemnon, and  eventually murdered him with the assistance of Aegisthus, his cousin. She  was the mother of Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes (the former being sacrificed by her father to Artemis and the latter two conspiring to kill their mother). She was later killed by her son and her husband's nephew (Pylades), aided by Electra.

Warning in The Odyssey

The dead Agamemnon as a shade in the Land of the Dead tells Odysseus of that story of his death, and makes an analogy of Clytaemnestra, telling Odysseus not to make a big deal of his return to Ithaca, in case Penelope his wife would also be unfaithful, having not seen Odysseus for almost twenty years.

Family

Lelegid/Lacadaemonid Genealogy in Greek mythology

Poseidôn               Lelex   Cleocharia                           Myles   Euhippe                         Clete   Eurotas     Zeús       Taygete                                                         Lapithes of the Lapiths   Orsinome           Sparta               Lacedaemon                                                                                                                           Acrisius of Argos   Eurydice               Amyclas   Diomede                                                             Zeús   Danaë                                                                                               Philomela   Cynortas       Argalus             Perseus   Andromeda                                                                                                             Gorgophone   Oebalus                                                                                                                                                             Hippomenes   Tyndareus       Leda       Zeús   Polycaste   Icarius                                                                                                                                                                     Castor               Polydeuces     Penelope   Odysseus of Ithaca                                                                                                         Agamemnon of Mycenae   Clytaemnestra           Helen   Menelaus                                                                                       Telemachus

Preceded by: Aerope

Queen of Mycenae Mythic

Succeeded by Hermione