Talk:Clytemnestra

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We even have historical reason to believe that she survived: in an Athenian museum, we have a plate with an inscripted text, which speaks of the Zakynthian family, descendants since 30 generations of Cassandra of Troy. - We have historical record that Cassandra actually existed? Francis Burdett 16:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

That one raised my eyebrows too. Any number of ancient figures claimed to trace their ancestry to some god or other, how is this any different? http://www.stubborn-lass.net/cassandra.php has the supposed text of the tablet. Ewx 17:00, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

What's with the two seperate sections documenting virtually the same thing? This article could be much better organized.

Poorly written article in need of clean up.

--Okay, I've gone nuts on this thing trying to clean it up. What a mess! Hopefully now it's a bit more ready for content editing. Also, I got rid of the part about Cassandra existing. It may or may not be a valid fact, but regardless, it should be in Cassandra's wiki if anywhere, not Clytemnestra's. --74.98.35.122 23:57, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

I've made a minor change. Cassandra did not (in Aeschylus) enter the palace because she heard Agamemnon's death screams and his moans from sex with haides. She entered earlier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.45.30 (talk) 03:35, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

i'm not the best classicist of greek mythology, but what this article sais about the death of agamemnon by the hand of some tantalus in "background" seems simply wrong to me .. doesn't the oresteia tell us that agamemnon was murdered by his wife clytemnestra and her lover? furthermore, tantalus is, through pelops the founder of the house of atreus. please correct me if i'm just launching out nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reni222 (talk • contribs) 18:16, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

• In Euripide's Iphigenia, Euripides has Clytemnestra say that Agamemnon killed her first husband Tantalus and their young child, then kidnapped her and married her. It's the first and only mention of this story in all of Greek mythology, so it's just one of those things where tragedy was playing around with mythology. Ben 13:07, 16 November 2007 (UTC)