Clytemnestra

Daughter of Leda and sister of Helen, Clytemnestra nursed ten years of purpose after Aulis: for the daughter killed to raise a wind she killed the king who ordered it, taking Aegisthus as consort and ruling Argos openly. Aeschylus gives her the most formidable tongue in Greek tragedy — the “woman with a man’s counsel” — and then gives her death at the hands of Orestes, the son who must choose between avenging his father and sparing his mother.