Katie Huggins’s Reviews > Clytemnestra > Status Update

"Everyone spoke about you then. The sister of the most beautiful woman in our lands. A Spartan princess marrying a powerful king.
I thought you must be either a beaten dog, some unlucky girl doomed to live a life of unhappiness, or a ruthless woman who shared Agamemnon's cruelty.”

“1 gone,the other dead.1 in the enemy city,the other burned.Her mother always said that the people who die never really leave.Sometimes they watch;at others,they speak.So Leda was taught to look&listen.~They can be in the trees, hidden behind the bark, or in the water, whistling with each crashing wave.~Clytemnestra stands in the warm water, hoping that someone is watching. But there are no waves and no whispers”

“But then Paris came&everyone adored him.Godlike,they call him."
He is like her,Clytemnestra suddenly considers. How could she not see that?Refused by his father, desperate to please others,the most beautiful of all men.Then she remembers what Menelaus said. Helen can't seem to be happy unless she has someone's attention.It is strange: she who is such a light is always seeking someone who shows her the way.”

“This is the only life she has known:an endless chain of brutality,with strength,pride,&beauty only bursting from the blood that someone else has spilled-nothing precious can ever blossom on a barren earth.Maybe that is why she chose Tantalus.His world seems much more hopeful than what she has always been forced to believe.&if everything he told her about Maeonia is true,her baby wont be whipped if he disobeys.”

"Men who find solace only in other men are to be distrusted,"Castor told Clytemnestra &Helen one morning as they were watching Theseus &Pirithous fight in the open. "They don't respect anyone else, let alone a woman."

^A lesson I learned the hard way,but oh so true.

One of my favorite courses I took was world myths,legends + folklore.I’ve always esp loved Greek + Norse mythology.Enjoying this retelling so far.