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The ancient myth of Electra has a rich history of reception through the ages, which is well documented in scholarship.

What first strikes the reader of Mourning Becomes Electra is the title itself which immediately establishes an inter- textual relation with the Greek myth of.

The ~10-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans is the central event in most Greek mythology.

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What first strikes the reader of Mourning Becomes Electra is the title itself which immediately establishes an inter- textual relation with the Greek myth of....

ELEKTRA

Greek Mythology >> Nymphs >> Pleiades >> Electra (Elektra)

Greek Name

Ηλεκτρη

Transliteration

Êlektrê

Translation

Amber (êlektron)

ELEKTRA (Electra) was the Pleiad star-nymph of Mount Saon on the island of Samothrake (Samothrace) in the north Aegean.

She was loved by Zeus and bore him two sons, Dardanos, ancestor of the Trojan royal family, and Iasion, founder of the Samothrakian Mysteries. She was also entrusted with the fostering of Aphrodite's illegitimate daughter Harmonia.

Her name is derived from the Greek word êlektron--the substance and the colour amber.

FAMILY OF ELECTRA

PARENTS

[1.1] ATLAS(Hesiod Astronomy Frag 1, Lycophron 71, Virgil Aeneid 8,134, Nonnus Dionysiaca 3.124)
[1.2] ATLAS & PLEIONE(Apollodorus 3.110, Hygins Fabulae 192, Hyginus Astronomica 2.21, Ovid Fasti 4.169 & 5.79)

OFFSPRING

[1.1] DARDANOS, EETION (by Zeus) (Hesiod Catalogues of Women Fr