The youngest girl, Clytemnestra--called Clytie for short-- was eleven; her sister, Gwendolen--called Gwen for short-- was thirteen; nice girls, and comely.
In the first play, Agamemnon, the father of Orestes, is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra.
The king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, who was the son of Atreus and the father of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia; His wife Clytemnestra killed him upon his return from Troy.
A queen of Sparta and the mother, by Zeus in the form of a swan, of Helen and Pollux and, by her husband Tyndareus, of Castor and Clytemnestra.
Castor and Pollux, the twin sons of Leda and brothers of Helen and Clytemnestra, who were transformed by Zeus into the constellation Gemini.
"Electra:a daughter of Clytemnestra and agamemnon who with her brother Orestes avenged the murder of agamemnon by killing their mother and her lover, aegisthus."
He was killed by his wifer Clytemnestra upon his return form Troy.
Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra was greatly enraged at her husband's cruelty.
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