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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The wife of Agamemnon who, with the assistance of her lover Aegisthus, murdered him on his return from the Trojan War and was later murdered by her son Orestes.
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- noun (Greek mythology) wife of Agamemnon who had him murdered when he returned from the Trojan War
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Examples
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The Thomas Berger retelling of The Oresteia was reviewed in The Times with “His Clytemnestra is a classic nympho of the noir imagination.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The Thomas Berger retelling of The Oresteia was reviewed in The Times with “His Clytemnestra is a classic nympho of the noir imagination.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The Thomas Berger retelling of The Oresteia was reviewed in The Times with “His Clytemnestra is a classic nympho of the noir imagination.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The Thomas Berger retelling of The Oresteia was reviewed in The Times with “His Clytemnestra is a classic nympho of the noir imagination.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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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 T. W. Lumb
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His Clytemnestra is a feeble creation even by the side of that of Sophocles.
Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb
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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 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Collier's "Clytemnestra," with its guess at the fashion of to-morrow -- the low-neck blouse carried a little bit further.
Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 Various 1898
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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 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870
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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
Lady Byron Vindicated Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 1870
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