\b0 Daughter of \b \cf4 \ATXht12020 Tyndareus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and \b \cf4 \ATXht11206 Leda\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , she
was the sister of \b \cf4 \ATXht10808 Helen\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and of the \b \cf4 \ATXht10410 Dioscuri\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , Castor and Pollux. She married \b \cf4 \ATXht10115 Agamemnon\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , but while her husband was away fighting beneath the wal
ls of \b \cf4 \ATXht12019 Troy\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , became the lover of Aegisthus, perhaps to get her revenge for the sacrifice of her daughter, Iphigenia. On Agamemnon's return from the war, Clytemnestra killed him with the help of her lover, though not be
fore putting to death \b \cf4 \ATXht10306 Cassandra\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , her husband's slave, who might have put him on his guard with her prophetic arts.\par