Electra · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

OrationsImperial · Greek

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:

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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.

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ElectraClassical · Greek

Agamemnon's daughter, married off to a poor Peasant by Aegisthus, who mourns her father and plots revenge with her returning brother Orestes.

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Iphigenia in TaurisClassical · Greek

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.

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I will say first what I have heard from Electra.

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She lives with this man, (pointing to Pylades) and has a happy life.

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OrestesClassical · Greek

Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who opens the play narrating her family's history and caring for her mad brother.

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ElectraClassical · Greek

Agamemnon's daughter, who refuses to stop mourning him, denounces his murderers, and waits for Orestes as avenger.

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CloudsClassical · Greek

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.

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