Chrysothemis’s Family Tree

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Family

• Agamemnon(parent),Clytemnestra(parent),Electra (Argive)(sibling),Iphigenia(sibling),Orestes(sibling)— Marriage

  Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's children included Orestes, Iphigenia, Electra, and Chrysothemis. The family was destroyed when Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon upon his return from Troy, and Orestes later killed her in revenge.

Associated with

• Aegisthus

  Chrysothemis lived under the tyrannical rule of Aegisthus after he and Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon. In Sophocles's Electra, she counsels submission to his authority rather than the resistance Electra advocates.

• Clytemnestra

  In Sophocles's Electra, Clytemnestra sends Chrysothemis to pour libations at Agamemnon's tomb after a disturbing dream. Electra intercepts her and persuades her to replace the offerings with their own.

• Electra (Argive)

  In Sophocles's Electra, Chrysothemis urges her sister to submit to Clytemnestra and Aegisthus rather than resist. Electra rejects her pragmatism, and the sisters' conflict mirrors their opposing responses to injustice.