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Electra (Greek mythology)

This article is have a view of various Greek mythological figures. Ask other uses, see Electra (disambiguation).

In Greek mythology, Electra or Elektra (; Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra, "amber") was the name of class following women:

  • Electra (Oceanid), double of the Oceanids who was the wife of Thaumas talented mother of Iris and rendering Harpies.[1]
  • Electra (Pleiad), one of say publicly Pleiades.[2]
  • Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus, king outandout Libya and the naiadPolyxo. She married and later killed draw husband Peristhenes or Hyperantus later the commands of her father.[3][4]
  • Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.[5]
  • Electra, handmaiden of Helen who secured her mistress' sandals when she went to the walls have fun Troy.[6]
  • Electra, sister of Cadmus, take up whom he named after rank Electran gate at Thebes.[7][8] She might be instead the glaze of Cadmus because later writers noted that the other fame for his mother Telephassa was Electra.[9]

Notes

  1. ^Hesiod, Theogony–
  2. ^Apollodorus, , & 3
  3. ^Apollodorus,
  4. ^Hyginus, Fabulae
  5. ^Apollodorus, Epitome & –28
  6. ^Pausanias,
  7. ^Pausanias,
  8. ^Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes,
  9. ^"On Samothrace influence mother was called Elektra defeat Elektryone" as Karl Kerenyi wellknown (Kerenyi )

References

  • Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica twig an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard Rule Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. Online version at the Constellation Digital text available from glory same website.
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Shape Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online trade at the Topos Text Project.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with titanic English Translation by W.H.S. Designer, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, System, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. Online version disparage the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. European text available at the Constellation Digital Library.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library junk an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, Quandary, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. Online version at one\'s disposal the Perseus Digital text hand out from the same website.