Chrysothemis (daughter of Agamemnon)
Chrysothemis ( Greek Χρυσόθεμις ) is a daughter of Agamemnon and Klytaimnestra in Greek mythology .
In Homer's Iliad , she is the sister of Iphianassa and Laodike . In Sophocles' tragedy Elektra - as well as in Euripides Orestes and in the library of Apollodorus - she is the sister of Elektra , Iphianassa and Orestes . When Elektra learns of the alleged death of her brother Orestes, she asks Chrysothemis to help her in revenge for her father, who was murdered by her mother. Chrysothemis rejects this because she does not trust herself to carry out the requested murders of Clytaimnestra and Aigisthus .
A picture of Chrysothemis can be found on a red-figure vase , where she protects Orestes during the murder of Aigisthus.
literature
- Carl Robert : Chrysothemis 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2520 f.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Chrysothemis 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 906 ( digitized version ).