Clytemnestra [SEP] father
appears to assume an etymological link with the verb "mḗdomai" (, "scheme, contrive"). Thus given the derivation from κλῠτός ("klutós" "celebrated") and μήδομαι ("mḗdomai" "to plan, be cunning"), this would result in the quite descriptive "famous plotter".
Background.
Clytemnestra was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, the King and Queen of Sparta, making her a Spartan Princess. According to the myth, Zeus appeared to Leda in the form
their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.
Background.
When King Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra, his wife Clytemnestra (who has taken Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus as a lover) kills them. Clytemnestra believes the murder was justified, since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia before the war, as commanded by the gods. Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, rescued her younger brother Orestes from her mother by sending him to Strophius of Phocis