Electra
mythological figure · 6 works · 11 mentions · 42 anchored passages
daughter · sister · child · Agamemnon's child · my sister · the young daughter
in the texts
Orations
Mythological daughter of Agamemnon, depicted in tragedy asking about her exiled brother Orestes.
and again, in another poet of later times, how Electra, inquiring about her brother with grief and pitying him for his exile, asks somewhat thus:
Electra, when she saw Orestes weeping and embracing her, thought at the time that some relief had come to him, yet she was far from trusting altogether.
Electra
Agamemnon's daughter, married off to a poor Peasant by Aegisthus, who mourns her father and plots revenge with her returning brother Orestes.
I am Agamemnon’s child, and Clytemnestra, hated daughter of Tyndareus, bore me;
For it is shameful, if his father exterminated the Trojans but Orestes is unable to kill a man, one against one, being young and born from a more noble father.
Electra:
Iphigenia in Tauris
Sister of Iphigenia and Orestes, remaining at Argos; source of the family story Orestes uses to help prove his identity.
He left one virgin daughter, Electra.
I will say first what I have heard from Electra.
nor will it prevent me speaking before I first find out Electra’s fate, for you are all dear to me.
Orestes
Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who opens the play narrating her family's history and caring for her mad brother.
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Electra
Agamemnon's daughter, who refuses to stop mourning him, denounces his murderers, and waits for Orestes as avenger.
But now, when you could be called the child of the noblest father among men, be called instead your mother’s daughter, for in this way your corruptness will be evident to the greatest number as you betray your dead father and your true friends.
yet, when I am doing my utmost to avenge our father, you do not work with me, but seek to deflect your sister from her deed.
O potent Curse, and you fearsome daughters of the gods, the Erinyes, who take note when a life is unjustly taken, when a marriage-bed is thievishly dishonored, come, help me, bring vengeance for the murder of my father and send me my brother.
Clouds
The mythological figure Electra, invoked in a simile comparing the poet's comedy searching for a discerning audience to Electra recognizing her brother by a lock of hair.
Now, therefore, like that well-known Electra, has this comedy come seeking, if haply it meet with an audience so clever, for it will recognize, if it should see, the lock of its brother.