The example of Clytemnestra and Electra was constantly before me -- Electra killing her mother Clytemnestra in revenge for Clytemnestra having killed her husband, Electra's father, Agamemnon. This Electra, though, had a different plan: Break the cycle ...

They were classics from Greek mythology. In fact, her father wanted to name her Clytemnestra, after the wife — and, in some stories, murderess — of the Greek king Agamemnon. Luckily, Kim's mother, Ellen, overruled him. I got to tell Mag how ...

Whistler’s Mother. Mama Rose. Clytemnestra. It’s not just the practitioners of attachment parenting. We’re all unhealthily fixated. Concentrate your reproductive energy in fewer and fewer offspring, and you have to be certain to Get It ...

XII. The Greek myths are heavy with tales of imperfect mothers. To name a few: Medea who kills her two children after being banished from her husband and home; Clytemnestra, murdered by her own son; Demeter, who creates winter in mourning for ...