Electra ranks among the most haunting figures in the legend of Mycenae, a princess trapped inside the crime that tore her royal family apart. Greek myth named her a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, sister to Orestes and to the sacrificed Iphigenia. Her mother and her mother’s lover murdered the returning king, and … Read more
Clytemnestra stands among the darkest and strongest figures of Greek myth, the queen of Mycenae and wife of King Agamemnon. Daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, sister of Helen of Troy, she ruled the great citadel while her husband led the Greeks across the sea to war. Legend hands her a fierce will and a long … Read more
The House of Atreus is the doomed royal dynasty of Mycenae in Greek myth, a family pursued across generations by a curse of murder and revenge. Its story descends from Pelops and Tantalus and runs through the brothers Atreus and Thyestes into the reign of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Bloodshed answers bloodshed here, and each … Read more