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clytemnestra  

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  • Clytemnestra appears in Homer's Odyssey, and several classical plays including Seneca's Agamemnon, Sophocles's Electra, Euripides's Electra and Iphigeneia at Aulis. She is the title figure in a ballet by Martha Graham and is represented by painters such as John Collier and Lord Frederick Leighton. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Clytemnestra]

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