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The list Clytemnestra includes
Helen of Troy, Mourning Becomes Electra, Femme fatale, Iphigenia and Electra.
The list consists of 22 members
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Helen of Troy
2003 television miniseries directed by John Kent Harrison
Overview: Helen of Troy is a 2003 British-American television miniseries based upon Homer's story of the Trojan War, as recounted in the epic poem, the Iliad.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Adventure, ActionDirector: John Kent HarrisonProducer: Ronni Kern, Ted KurdylaWriter: Ronni Kern, HomerThe abduction of beautiful Helen, wife of Spartan King Menelaus, by Paris of Troy triggers a long war.
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Mourning Becomes Electra
1947 film
Overview: Mourning Becomes Electra is a 1947 American drama film by Dudley Nichols adapted from the 1931 Eugene O'Neill play Mourning Becomes Electra, based in turn on the Oresteia. The film stars Rosalind Russell ...Release date: 19 November 1947Genre: DramaDirector: Dudley NicholsProducer: Dudley Nichols, Eugene O'NeillEugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er... 0
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Femme fatale
Stock character; beautiful but mischievous and traitorous woman
Overview: A femme fatale (FEM fə-TA(H)L, lit. 'fatal woman'), sometimes called a maneater, Mata Hari, or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her ... 0
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Iphigenia
Greek film
Overview: Iphigenia (Greek: Ιφιγένεια) is a 1977 Greek film directed by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Greek myth of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who was ordered by the goddess Artemis ...Release date: 10 September 1977Genre: Drama, ActionDirector: Michael CacoyannisCast: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras, Tatiana Papamoschou, Christos Tsagas, Panos MihalopoulosProducer: Euripides, Michael CacoyannisThe Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon... 0
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Electra
1962 Greek film
Overview: Electra (Greek: Ηλέκτρα Ilektra) is a 1962 Greek film based on the play Electra, written by Euripides. It was directed by Michael Cacoyannis, serving as the first installment of his "Greek tragedy" trilogy ...Release date: 1 May 1962Genre: DramaDirector: Michael CacoyannisProducer: Euripides, Michael CacoyannisA powerful rendering of the tragedy of Elektra by Euripides. The film begins with a summary treatment... 0
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Mourning Becomes Electra
Play written by Eugene O'Neill
Overview: Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. The play premiered on Broadway at the Guild Theatre on 26 October 1931 where it ran for 150 performances before ... 0
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Swan song
Metaphorical phrase
Overview: The swan song (ancient Greek: κύκνειον ᾆσμα; Latin: carmen cygni) is a metaphorical phrase for a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement. The phrase refers to an ancient ... 0
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Clytemnestra (Collier)
Painting by John Collier
Overview: Clytemnestra, also known as Clytemnestra after the Murder, is an 1882 oil painting by John Collier. It has been held by the Guildhall Art Gallery, in the City of London, since 1893. A second version, c ... 0
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A Thousand Ships
Book by Natalie Haynes
Overview: A Thousand Ships is a 2019 novel by Natalie Haynes which retells the mythology of the Trojan war from the perspective of the women involved. It was shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction. 0
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Electra (Giraudoux play)
1937 two-act play written by Jean Giraudoux
Overview: Electra (French title: Électre) is a two-act play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. It was the first Giraudoux play to employ the staging of Louis Jouvet. Based on the classic myth ... 0
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Iphigénie
Tragedy by Jean Racine
Overview: Iphigénie is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by the French playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in the Orangerie in Versailles on August 18, 1674 as part of the fifth ... 0
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Electra (Euripides play)
Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides
Overview: Euripides' Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) is a play probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC. It is unclear whether it was first produced before or after Sophocles' version ... 0
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Iphigenia in Aulis
Last extant work of Greek playwright EuripidesOverview: Iphigenia in Aulis or at Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι, Iphigeneia en Aulidi; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide) is the last of the extant works by the playwright ... 0
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Clitennestra
Opera by Ildebrando Pizzetti
Overview: Clitennestra is an opera in a prelude and two acts, was the last work by Ildebrando Pizzetti. The libretto is in Italian language. The opera play is based from ancient Greek mythology written by Aeschylus ... 0
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Leben des Orest
Opera by Ernst KrenekOverview: Leben des Orest (The Life of Orestes) is a grand opera in five acts (eight scenes) with words and music both by Ernst Krenek. It is his Op. 60 and the first of his own libretti with an antique setting ... 0
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Oresteia
Trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus
Overview: The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes ... 0
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Clytemnestra
figure from Greek mythology
Overview: Clytemnestra (Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα, Klytaimnḗstra, ), in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' Oresteia, she murders Agamemnon – said ... 0
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Elektra (opera)
1909 opera by Richard Strauss
Overview: Elektra, Op. 58, is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations ... 0
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Tomb of Clytemnestra
beehive tomb in Greece
Overview: The Tomb of Clytemnestra was a Mycenaean tholos type tomb built in c. 1250 BC. A number of architectural features such as the semi-column were largely adopted by later classical monuments of the first ... 0
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20.Overview: Klytaemnestra (; minor planet designation: 179 Klytaemnestra) is a stony Telramund asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 77 kilometers (48 miles) in diameter. It was discovered ... 0
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