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In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra):
According to the story, Electra (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) was absent from MycenaeMycenae (in Ancient Greek Mykaenai or Μυκηναι, pronounced roughly Moo-kair-nigh in Modern Greek Mikenes or Μυκενες), is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90km sout when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan WarThe Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of Greece, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated and was murdered by AegisthusIn Greek mythology, Aegisthus ("goat strength", also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigisthos was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus. The two battled bac, Clytemnestra's lover, and/or by Clytemnestra herself. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra also killed CassandraCassandra was a pseudonym of William Connor, long standing British journalist In Greek mythology, Cassandra ("she who entangles men") (also known as Alexandra was a daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba, who captured the eye of Apollo and so, Agamemnon's lover.
Eight years later Electra returned from AthensAcropolis in central Athens is home to ancient monuments of Athens — a mainstay of its thriving tourism industry Athens ( Greek: Athina is the capital of Greece, and also the capital of the Attica region of Greece. A cosmopolitan modern city, Athens is al with her brother, OrestesOrestes in Greek legend, was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. According to the Homeric story Orestes was absent from Mycenae when his father returned from the Trojan War and was murdered by his wife's lover Aegisthus. Eight years later Orestes retur. ( OdysseyFor the cable TV channel formerly called Odyssey, see the Hallmark Channel. The Odyssey is the second of the two great Greek epic poems ascribed to Homer, the first being the Iliad''. The book follows the events of the voyage of Odysseus, king of Ithaca,, iii. 306; X. 542). According to Pindar (Pythia, xi. 25), Orestes was saved by his old nurse or by Electra, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.
In his twentieth year, Orestes was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and avenge his father's death. According to Aeschylus, he met Electra before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge.
Orestes, after the deed (sometimes with Electra helping), goes mad, and is pursued by the Erinyes, or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety. Electra is not hounded by the Erinyes.
Orestes takes refuge in the temple at Delphi. Even though Apollo (to whom the Delphic temple was dedicated) had ordered him to do the deed, he is powerless to protect Orestes from the consequences of his actions.
At last Athene (also known as Areia) receives him on the Acropolis of Athens and arranges a formal trial of the case before twelve Attic judges. The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads the orders of Apollo; the votes of the judges are equally divided, and Athena gives her casting vote for acquittal.
Later, Electra married Pylades, Orestes' close friend and son of King Strophius (the same one who had cared for Orestes while he hid from his mother and her lover).
Aeschylus, Oresteia; Euripides, Electra; Orestes ; Apollodorus, Epitome VI, 23-28.