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| | Nec Electra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | According to the story, Electra (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the TrojanWar and was murdered by Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover, and/or byClytemnestra herself. |
 | | According to Aeschylus, he met Electra before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead; arecognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge. |
 | | Orestes, after the deed (sometimes with Electra helping), goes mad, and is pursued by the Erinyes, or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the tiesof family piety. |
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