#Clytemnestra

[incorrecthomer]

Clytemnestra: FIGHT ME!, you nerd ass punk. Helen, behind her: at least try to sound sophisticated when you threaten someone. Clytemnestra,smirking: dost thou wish to engage in a dual, my good ✨bitch✨ Helen,unimpressed: somehow that was worse.

[wolfythewitch]

dad jokes

[maryoliverdotcom]

hey. what if she isn't doomed by the narrative . what if she is doomed by herself

[benvoolioo]

oh, so murdering my husband on his return from troy after he sacrificed our daughter to Artemis makes me the bad guy??? god forbid women do anything  🙄

[callisteios]

would you like to find out which tragic greek lady you are most like?

[mothmanismymainman]

the iliad as those bird memes (sorry for weird formatting at the end)

achilles:

patroclus:

helen:

diomedes:

hector:

odysseus:

andromache:

calchas:

paris:

bonus! clytemnestra:

[hiddenvioletsgrow]

Clytemnestra murdering Agamemnon but cell block tango is playing in the backround

[girlfromenglishclass]

In certain versions of the myth, Clytemnestra and Helen are twins, born from the same egg. This is a feature we see semi-often in myth called Heteropaternal superfecundation - twins from the same womb but by different fathers. Clytemnestra by Leda and Tyndarius, Helen by Leda and Zeus.

The thing is though - Helen is the demigod because of her divine beauty and place within the narrative, but are we sure it was her who Zeus fathered?

Clytemnestra, too clever, in love with authority, commanding. When Clytemnestra killed her husband, no divine judgement rebuked her, almost like Medea being whisked off by her god grandfather after the murders. When Clytemnestra is killed, the furies gather to avenge her where they didn't for Agamemnon.

What if the furies were looking after one of their own? Recognizing divine authority? That is to say,

What if it wasn't Helen?

[dykeganseythethird]

florence welch as clytemnestra

[whitevesper]

[achilles teaching patroclus to drive]

achilles: you’re driving and suddenly you see clytemnestra and agamemnon walk into the road. what do you hit?

patroclus: the brakes obviously

achilles: wrong. agamemnon. you should always hit agamemnon.

[filmnoirsbian]

It's crazy to me btw that Clytemnestra and Helen are sisters and their stories as deserters of husbands/Bad Wives are so intertwined but they have never actually interacted in text and there's almost no art portraying them together that's WILD. I am forever thinking of Clytemnestra's one line in Agamemnon where she berates the chorus for talking shit abt Helen I want to see them in conversation just once

⬆️ this is the only art I could find supposedly portraying them together btw Clytemnestra is in the middle and Helen is far right

[wolfythewitch]

princesses of sparta

[maryoliverdotcom]

finally made a quiz for the classics nerds! which member of the house of atreus are you?

[lesbiancassius]

Klytemnestra in Mycenae, Casey J. King

[incorrecthomer]

Clytemnestra: When I said, “bring me back something from the beach” I meant like a seashell or something. Agamemnon, trying to hold a seagull: Well you didn’t fucking say that.

[moplopbool]

I long to draw a ‘never love an anchor’ animatic about the House of Atreus, but my art skills are too lacking for it to be a reality…😭