Conversations: I Promise We’re Not Defending Murder, Clytemnestra with Aimee Hinds

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Liv speaks with Aimee Hinds about the intricacies of Clytemnestra's story and how storytellers and reception over millennia has affected the understanding of this powerful Spartan woman. Follow Aimee Hinds on Twitter, here and check out her incredible Etsy shop here.

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Sources referred to: Aeschylys's Oresteia, Sophocles' Electra, Euripides' Orestes and Electra (ie, all the stories of the death of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra); Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis. For episodes covering Clytemnestra's story, refer to those on the Oresteia primarily, plus some early Trojan War and Atreidae Curse.

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1:07.1	Hi, hello, welcome. This is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby, and I am your host, Liv.
1:14.3	Now, you may be thinking, didn't Liv tell us this Friday would be an episode on Medea with
1:19.6	N.W.Kaya Hayward? And yes, yes I did. But it turns out, even in all my attempts to finally be
1:26.7	prepared for once, this has been the first ever instance of the audio I recorded with somebody
1:32.2	being entirely unusable. Good times. So I hope to be rerecording with Ann when we both have some time,
1:40.8	but in the meantime I do have lots of other fascinating conversations to put into your ears in its place.
1:49.0	Today I'm here with an equally exciting episode on an equally fascinating murderous
1:55.4	from mythology, Clitom Nestra. I spoke with Amy Hines, a woman much more educated in these things
2:02.0	than myself, who has a particular interest in Clitom Nestra, and we had an incredible conversation
2:07.8	about the infamous woman from Sparda who killed her husband for very, very good reasons.
2:14.4	One thing I do want to mention, you will hear Amy make reference to Clitom Nestra's first husband
2:20.0	and first child before Agamemnon. Now this is actually a detail I was not familiar with before
2:27.6	our conversation, but in Euripides' work, Efigonaya at Aulis, the play that tells the story of
2:34.5	Agamemnon's murder of their daughter, Efigonaya, before the Greeks left for Troy, we learn that
2:40.2	Clitom Nestra was first married to a man named Tantalis, who was the son of Thaiestes, a grand son
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