Word: clytemnestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother, Clytemnestra. Simultaneously, hard by Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress and her paramour were on trial for their lives for having prosecuted a design very similar to Clytemnestra's by methods scarely more gruesome than those set forth in the play. The U. S. man and woman, were sent...
Hermione is shocked. Hermione wants to marry her cousin Orestes. Helen does not like the straight-laced young fellow and would prefer her to marry Pyrrhus, the daredevil son of Achilles. Then there is the rumor that Eteoneus, the gatekeeper, brings to Menelaus: "Your sister-in-law Clytemnestra-your double sister-in-law, I might say; your wife's sister and your brother's wife-has been living with Aegisthus ever since Agamemnon went to Troy...
...does, and he shortly looks with more favor on Pyrrhus as a possible son-in-law, for Orestes' father, Agamemnon, comes home and is murdered by Clytemnestra, who is in turn killed by Orestes. Surely it would not do to make an alliance with such a family. But Orestes meets Pyrrhus on the road and kills him after a quarrel, and Hermione elopes with Orestes...