Electra

Electra, in mythology:
daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, wife of Thaumas, mother of Iris and the Harpies (Hesiod Theogonia 265 ff.).
Daughter of Atlas and Pleione, and one of the Pleiades (Apollodorus mythographus 3. 10. 1); mother by Zeus of Dardanus and Iasion (ibid. 3. 12. 1).
Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and sister of Orestes. She does not appear in epic, the first certain mention of her being in the Oresteia of Stesichorus (fr. 217 Davies, Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta), although she was said to be Homer's Laodice, renamed because of her long unwedded state (Iliad 9. 145, cf. Xanthus fr. 700 Poetae Melici Graeci Page). Our major source for her story is Athenian tragedy, where she plays a central role in Orestes' vengeance on Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus for the murder of Agamemnon. Her first appearance is in the Choephori of [The entire page is 572 words long]

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