![]() With her only goal to create a loving familial environment, Kyltemnestra gives Agamemnon four children in their early marital years: Iphigenia, Elektra, Chrysothemis and Orestes. At a young age - merely teetering on the brink of adulthood - Klytemnestra is whisked away to the Argolid to begin her new life as a queen. That is, until she is married off to one of her father’s military allies, Agamemnon of Mycenae. After an incident where Theseus takes a game between him and Helen too far, Kyltemnestra spends the rest of her childhood shielding her younger sister from the world. Klytemnesta, the elder of the two, grows up being a stereotypical overprotective sister. But who were these women before their reputations were established? The former famed for causing a ten year war, and the latter for killing her husband in the tub when he returns from said war. ![]() ![]() Helen and Kyltemnestra: our daughters of Sparta. ![]()
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