Clytemnestra

In Greek mythology, Clytemnestra (, ; , ), was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. With Agamemnon, she was the mother of Orestes and Electra.

stock character; beautiful but mischievous and traitorous woman

thumb|right|250px|Aegisthus being murdered by Orestes and [[Pylades – The Louvre]]

main-belt asteroid

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

The Oresteia () is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides

final effort before the end

opera by Richard Strauss

1962 film by Michael Cacoyannis

1947 play by Jean-Paul Sartre

1977 film by Michael Cacoyannis

Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova from the same menstrual cycle by sperm from the same or different males, whether through separate acts of intercourse or during a single sexual encounter with multiple males. This can result in twin babies that have different biological fathers.

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

play by Eugene O'Neill

1947 film

2003 television miniseries directed by John Kent Harrison

Iphigénie is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by the French playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in the Orangerie in Versailles on August 18, 1674, as part of the fifth of the royal Divertissements de Versailles of Louis XIV to celebrate the conquest of Franche-Comté. Later in December it was triumphantly revived at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, home of the royal troupe of actors in Paris.

tragedy by Seneca

proverb found in Matthew 26:52

beehive tomb in Greece

mythological Greek character, son of Thyestes

opera in three parts with music by Sergei Taneyev, composed during 1887-1894

play by Jean Giraudoux

opera by Ernst Krenek