She is scandalous, powerful, unfaithful: all qualities that make her the embodiment of men’s anxieties about women and power. She found a lover in Aegisthus, Agamemnon’s cousin and sworn enemy, and plotted her revenge for ten years before killing her husband. So why do we remember her as nothing more than a murderess? Clytemnestra ruled the city of Mycenae while her husband was away. After being forced to marry the cruel king Agamemnon, Clytemnestra suffered horrifying losses at the hands of her husband, but rather than giving in to grief and despair, she fought her way to the very end, and finally got her vengeance. Grown up in Sparta, trained in hunting and wrestling, she was born into a powerful family: daughter of the King Tyndareus and Queen Leda, she was the sister of Helen and the cousin of Penelope. Viewed as the archetype of the lustful murderess for centuries, this Greek queen was actually a fierce, clever and resolute heroine. My novel tells the story of one of the most infamous characters from the Greek myth, Clytemnestra, who kills her husband Agamemnon as he comes back from the Trojan War. She is available for interview, guest post, and social media content.
Costanza is a graduate of the prestigious Warwick Writing MA program, where she earned a distinction, and currently works as a freelance journalist and screenwriter. Before moving to London, she attended a classical Liceo in Italy, where she studied Ancient Greek, and Ancient Greek literature, for five years. Guest post written by author Costanza CasatiĬostanza Casati was born in Texas in 1995, grew up in a village in Northern Italy and lived in the UK for five years.
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