#clytemnestra

[adancerofsymphonia]

A sequel to Nolan's version of The Odyssey except it's a modern day reincarnation story with Lupita Nyong'o and Benny Safdie as co workers who get flashes of their past lives and she is a tsundere while he is pathetically obsessed with her.

And, somehow, he managed to get his hands on a cool ass looking armour from a thrift store and wears it randomly to work without any explanations.

[bambi-corelesbian]

i would like to hear ur Thoughts about Agamemnon and clytemnestra in the odyssey

Okay I rly wish I had the clips 😩 so im just gonna describe what I saw (all of this is specific to the 2026 movie)

So in the first set of flashbacks we have of them (Helen is telling Telemachus about how Agamemnon died) we see that Clytemnestra has come down to greet him and she begins to bow to him, but he bows first which seems to shock her. Secondly; while Agamemnon is recounting how he was murdered in Hades he calls Clytemnestra "My beautiful wife" still (correct me if im wrong but I don't think he does that in Homer's Odessey). In this flashback it continues the little welcome home parade he gets, and we can see that Clytemnestra sort of presses against him and they walk arm in arm.

It continues on to where he is taken out of his heavy armour and Clytemnestra is the one bathing him; washing his hair and rubbing oils into it. A deeply intimate act that one would think a queen would not do. Lastly; Clytemnestra murders Agamemnon as they are having (or about to have) sex. Like this dude has pretty much thrown himself on the nearest surface to get some from his wife (and got murked after lmaoo) All of these things combined lead me to believe that their relationship was at the very least amicable if not downright loving; which from what I have seen is a direct contrast to their relationship in the mythology. Like a Greek king straight up bowing to his queen upon his return from war?? The fact that she was personally seeing to his bath and washing his curls and he was not suspicious of something fishy at all; as if it were somewhat of a routine before he left for the decade???Maybe I am giving Nolan too much credit but that paints a fascinating picture. Especially because this Agamemnon is portrayed to be more like a force of nature, mostly silent and foreboding (I started reading the Iliad and he's whiny as shit lmaoo)

Just makes me wonder more about their dynamic as a couple as Nolan has written it 🤔.

[lamiafemme]

Finally playing BG3… do we like her

[flawedstars]

clytemnestra and agamemnon, regarding iphigenia, break me every time because of course he didn’t want to do it, he had to, if he wanted to end the war. except if it were clytemnestra, she wouldn’t have done it. she would have let them stay stranded if it meant keeping her daughter safe. there was no correct way for this story to end.

[fullyconsumedbywhatlovesme]

I’m having feelings about Iphigenia among the Taurians. Look—

Even if Iphigenia comes home, she has spent half of her life away from them. She was almost sacrificed, knife to her throat staring into her father’s eyes and the. She’s spirited away to a strange land where she’s made to perform human sacrifices for almost twenty years. She doesn’t think she’ll ever return home or see her mom or dad or sisters or baby brother or aunt and uncle safely reunited and has to mourn her life while taking life from others.

And when she gets back, she has lost everyone all over again. She lost the chance to see her baby brother grow up. He’s a man now with blood on his hands and his eyes that she’d only known childish curiosity and love in have seen so so much.

She lost her father to her mother. Her father died brutally for something she begged her mother to not grieve. Iphigenia was alive, but she was dead in every way that mattered. So Agamemnon dies.

Clytemnestra becomes not only deep into horrible painful grief, she lets that grief take form into something that hurts her sisters and brother and became someone that Iphigenia would cower from and hate. In her oldest daughter’s name. So she lost her mother to her brother.

She can’t recognize either of her sisters. They’ve grown up, but not into the young women she imagined. Chrysothemis doesn’t know how to exist outside of bending to her mother’s will and abuse. Electra doesn’t know how to exist outside of fighting it.

No one knows how to feel about reuniting and seeing her home. They know her as a corpse and a ghost. They know how to mourn her, to put her on a pedestal or slowly grow resentment for the dead girl, not be her sibling.

[lewis-hem-theficreader]

Helen and Clytemnestra🦢

[sarafangirlart]

Every time I see a comment that Clytemnestra must have killed her other children because they "betrayed" her, I remember how much Iphigenia loved Prestes and her sisters and how hurt and betrayed she must have felt by her mother to see how she treated her sisters and how she tried to kill little Orestes.

That’s actually insane, I thought ppl loved Clytemnestra due to her love for (some) of her children yet her fans say she should’ve killed her children?? Seriously???

[richard-eeee]

Ok uhhh I just realized I gave Clytemnestra the same hairstyle as Agamemnon so now, in order to compensate, Clytemnestra has matching hairstyles with her spouses