Let’s be honest. Most people, or at least most high school students, have no idea who Clytemnestra is. When a student thinks of mythological Greek women, she isn’t at the forefront of their minds. Perhaps they think of Clytemnestra’s sister, Helen of Troy, the one with the “face that launched a thousand ships”; or her cousin, Penelope of Ithaca, the faithful wife of Odysseus. To me, though, while not as famous as her relatives, Clytemnestra is one of the most complex and intriguing characters of the Greek myths. She’s mostly known for being Agamemnon’s wife. More specifically, for murdering him. Classic historians stop at this point, classifying her as the most evil form a woman can take: an unfaithful, ungrateful wife (the horror!), and the exact opposite of her cousin Penelope, who was THE Devoted Wife. Yet contemporary authors like Constanza Casati are looking beyond this surface-level definition of Clytemnestra to ask, who is she, really? What actually motivated her to kill her ...