Electra

Electra (ĭlĕk`trə), in Greek mythology.

1 Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. After her mother and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon, Electra, eager for revenge, longed only for the return of her brother, Orestes. The reunion and vengeance of the brother and sister were dramatized by the three great tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. However, only in the work of Euripides did Electra take an active part in the killing of Clytemnestra. It is said that she later married Pylades, Orestes' friend, and bore him two sons.

2 One of the Pleiades. She was the daughter of Atlas and Pleione and mother by Zeus of Dardanus, the founder of what was to become the house of Troy. According to one legend she was the lost Pleiad, disappearing in grief after the destruction of Troy.

3 A sea nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and mother by Thaumus of Iris, the rainbow, and the Harpies.

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Electra

In Greek legend, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. When Agamemnon was murdered by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, Electra saved her young brother Orestes from the same fate by sending him away. Orestes later returned, and Electra helped him kill their mother and Aegisthus. She then married her brother's friend Pylades. The story is treated in plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.

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electra [i′lek·trə]

(navigation)

A continuous-wave radio navigation aid that uses special radio beacons to provide a number of equisignal zones (usually 24).

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Electra [i′lek·trə]

(astronomy)

A small, irregularly shaped satellite of Saturn that librates about the leading Lagrangian point of Dione's orbit.

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Electra

bore great, passionate love for father, Agamemnon. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 92; Gk. Lit.: Electra, Orestes]

See : Incest

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Electra

incited brother, Orestes, to kill their mother and her lover. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 92; Gk. Lit.: Electra, Orestes]

See : Inducement

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Electra

wreaks vengeance on her father’s murderers. [Gk. Lit.: Electra]

See : Vengeance

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Electra

(17 Tauri), a star of visual stellar magnitude 3.7, located in the Pleiades, an open cluster. Its luminosity is 97 times greater than the sun’s, and its distance from the sun is 62 parsecs.