Clysony̆mus, a son of Amphidamas, killed by Patroclus. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 13.
Clytemnestra, a daughter of Tyndarus king of Sparta by Leda. She was born, together with her brother Castor, from one of the eggs which her mother brought forth after her amour with Jupiter, under the form of a swan. Clytemnestra married Agamemnon king of Argos. She had before married Tantalus son of Thyestes, according to some authors. When Agamemnon went to the Trojan war, he left his cousin Ægysthus to take care of his wife, of his family, and all his domestic affairs. Besides this, a certain favourite musician was appointed by Agamemnon to watch over the conduct of the guardian as well as that of Clytemnestra. In the absence of Agamemnon, Ægysthus made his court to Clytemnestra, and publicly lived with her. Her infidelity reached the ears of Agamemnon before the walls of Troy, and he resolved to take full revenge upon the adulterers at his return. He was prevented from putting his scheme into execution; Clytemnestra, with her adulterer, murdered him at his arrival, as he came out of the bath, or, according to other accounts, as he sat down at a feast prepared to celebrate his happy return. Cassandra, whom Agamemnon had brought from Troy, shared his fate; and Orestes would also have been deprived of his life, like his father, had not his sister Electra removed him from the reach of Clytemnestra. After this murder, Clytemnestra publicly married Ægysthus, and he ascended the throne of Argos. Orestes, after an absence of seven years, returned to Mycenæ, resolved to avenge his father’s murder. He concealed himself in the house of his sister Electra, who had been married by the adulterers to a person of mean extraction and indigent circumstances. His death was publicly announced; and when Ægysthus and Clytemnestra repaired to the temple of Apollo, to return thanks to the god for the death of the surviving son of Agamemnon, Orestes, who with his faithful friend Pylades had concealed himself in the temple, rushed upon the adulterers and killed them with his own hand. They were buried without the walls of the city, as their remains were deemed unworthy to be laid in the sepulchre of Agamemnon. See: [Ægysthus], [Agamemnon], [Orestes], [Electra]. Diodorus, bk. 4.—Homer, Odyssey, bk. 11.—Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 10.—Pausanias, bk. 2, chs. 18 & 22.—Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis.—Hyginus, fables 117 & 140.—Propertius, bk. 3, poem 19.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 4, li. 471.—Philostratus, Imagines, bk. 2, ch. 9.
Clytia, or Clytie, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, beloved by Apollo. She was deserted by her lover, who paid his addresses to Leucothoe; and this so irritated her, that she discovered the whole intrigue to her rival’s father. Apollo despised her the more for this, and she pined away, and was changed into a flower, commonly called a sunflower, which still turns its head towards the sun in his course, as in pledge of her love. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, fable 3, &c.——A daughter of Amphidamus, mother of Pelops by Tantalus.——A concubine of Amyntor son of Phrastor, whose calumny caused Amyntor to put out the eyes of his falsely accused son Phœnix.——A daughter of Pandarus.
Clytius, a son of Laomedon by Strymo. Homer, Iliad, bk. 10.——A youth in the army of Turnus, beloved by Cydon. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 325.——A giant, killed by Vulcan, in the war waged against the gods. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 6.——The father of Pireus, who faithfully attended Telemachus. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 15, li. 251.——A son of Æolus, who followed Æneas in Italy, where he was killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 744.——A son of Alcmæon the son of Amphiaraus. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 17.
Clytus, a Greek in the Trojan war, killed by Hector. Homer, Iliad, bk. 11, li. 302.
Cnacadium, a mountain of Laconia. Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 24.
Cnacălis, a mountain of Arcadia, where festivals were celebrated in honour of Diana. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 23.
Cnagia, a surname of Diana.
Cnemus, a Macedonian general, unsuccessful in an expedition against the Acarnanians. Diodorus, bk. 12.—Thucydides, bk. 2, ch. 66, &c.
Cneus, or Cnæus, a prænomen common to many Romans.