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In Greek mythology, Chrysothemis was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Unlike her sister, Electra, Chrysothemis did not protest or enact vengeance against their mother for having an affair with Aegisthus and then killing their father. The Oricoli bust of Zeus, King of the Gods, in the collection of the Vatican Museum. ... The so-called Mask of Agamemnon. Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae. ... Clytemnestra (Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα Klytaimnéstra, praiseworthy wooing) was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. ... Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra): A Pleiad, mother of Dardanus, Iasion and Harmonia, by Zeus. ... In Greek mythology, Aegisthus (goat strength, also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigísthos) was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. ...


She appears in Sophocles's Electra. Sophocles, as depicted in the Nordisk familjebok. ... Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragic play by Sophocles. ...


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Dramatic structure in Strauss’s Elektra (1354 words)
To emphasize the antagonism between the two sisters, Strauss has given Chrysothemis music that is intensely lyrical and emotionally fraught—the complete opposite of Elektra’s violent and broken style in the introduction.
Shortly afterward, Chrysothemis enters to announce the arrival of two strangers who have come to the palace with the news that Orestes has met with a fatal accident.
Chrysothemis reveals her great joy and exhorts her sister to join in the festivities inside the palace.
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