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Electra   /ɪlˈɛktrə/   Listen
Electra

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; persuaded her brother (Orestes) to avenge Agamemnon's death by helping her to kill Clytemnestra and her lover (Aegisthus).



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"Electra" Quotes from Famous Books



... more the voice of Euripides has interposed between the Athenians and their doom.[51] When AEgos Potamos had been fought, and Athens was in Spartan hands, Euthykles flung the "choric flower" of the "Electra" in the face of the ...
— A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) • Mrs. Sutherland Orr


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