![]() ![]() ![]() In her debut novel, Contanza Casati explores this character in depth. She knows songs never tell the truth.”ĭaughter of King Tyndareus of Sparta and his Queen Leda, the sister of Helen, and ultimately the murderous Queen of Mycenae who killed her husband Agamemnon, Clytemnestra has always been a lesser known character in comparison to her sister, and what we do know of her is in the context of her scheming and ultimately successfully executing her plan to murder her husband after he returns home after the victory at the Battle of Troy. They will sing of her mother, the queen seduced by a god, of her brothers, boxers and horse-breakers, of her sister, a woman so vain who couldn’t stay in her husband’s bed, of Agamemnon, the proud lion of Mycenae, of the wise, many-minded Odysseus, of the treacherous, cursed Aegisthus, of Clytemnestra, cruel queen and unfaithful wife. “There will come a time when songs are sung about her, about the people she loved and the ones she hated. ![]()
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