Electra

Electra (Graece Ἠλέκτρα) in mythologia Graeca fuit filia minor Agamemnonis, regis Mycenarum, et Clytaemnestrae atque soror Orestis, Iphigeniae, et Chrysothemidis. 

Orestem fratrem e Phocide revertentem accepit et Clytaemnestram occidere adiuvit. Pylades Electram uxorem duxit; filios Medontem et Strophium genuit. Mycenis sepulta estPaus. II 16, 7. .

Persona est tragoediarum:
 Aeschyli Choephoroe 
 Sophoclis Electra 
 Euripidis Electra 
 Senecae Agamemnon

Notae

 Plura legere si cupis 
Anastasia Bakogianni, Electra, ancient and modern : aspects of the reception of the tragic heroine, Londini, 2011
Jacques Boulogne,	"L'éclairage de la figure d'Électre par Giraudoux", Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé, 2007ː 118-131
Pierre Brunel, Le mythe d'Électre, Lutetiae, Honoré Champion éditeur, 2019 (tertia editio). Recensio critica editionis 1971
Alain Moreau, "Naissance d'Electre", Pallas. Revue d'études antiques, 1984ː 63-82
"The Three Electras: The heroine in fifth-century BC Athenian tragedy", Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2012,  Supplementum_113ː  13–72,

 Nexus externi 

 Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie de Electra 

Categoria:Mythologia Graeca