In Greek mythology, Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, king and queen of Spartaancient Greek city-state. She married AgamemnonGreek king and commander of Greek forces in the Trojan War; later killed by his wife, Clytemnestra, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War. In Homer's Iliad, Agamemnon sacrifices their daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis (DianaRoman goddess of hunting and childbirth (Greek goddess Artemis)) in order to get a favorable wind to sail to Troy and attack the city. This act causes Clytemnestra to swear revenge against her husband. She takes his cousin Aegisthus as her lover and plots with him to kill Agamemnon when he returns. Agamemnon eventually returns with Cassandra, the daughter...