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  Electra - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Electra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
According to the story, Electra (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War and was murdered by Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover, and/or by Clytemnestra herself.
Later, Electra married Pylades, Orestes' close friend and son of King Strophius (the same one who had cared for Orestes while he hid from his mother and her lover).
Aeschylus, Oresteia; Euripides, Electra; Orestes; Apollodorus, Epitome VI, 23-28.
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 Electra/Elektra (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Electra is the name of several figures from Greek mythology, but most usually referring to the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
Electra is also the name of a play by Euripides, telling the same story in a rather different fashion.
Electra was a teletext service that was available from the early 1980s to the early 90s on American cable tv channel SuperStation WTBS (now TBS Superstation).
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 Buick Electra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Buick Electra and the Buick Electra 225 were full-size automobiles built by the Buick Motor Division of General Motors, Flint, Michigan (USA).
Prior to 1959, the Buick Roadmaster and the Buick Limited constituted the upper echelon of Buick’s model range; for 1959 the Electra took the place of the Roadmaster, and the Electra 225 took the place of the Limited.
The Electra 225 nameplate was a nod to the vehicle’s overall length of 225 inches, earning it the nickname deuce and a quarter.
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 electra information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
According to the story, Electra (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War and was murdered by Aegisthus, Clytemnestra's lover,and/or by Clytemnestra herself.
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.
Later, Electra married Pylades, Orestes' close friend and son of King Strophius(the same one who had cared for Orestes while he hid from his mother and her lover).
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 Electra - Unipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
(Most famous "Electra") Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
Iphigenia helps her brother escape from Taurus, and the furies, sated by the reuniting of the family, abate their persecution.
Electra and Orestes, from an 1897 Stories from the Greek Tragedians, by Alfred Church
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 Electra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This article is about the Greek mythological personalities, for other meanings see Electra/Elektra (disambiguation).
In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra): Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys...
Elektra, opera by composer Richard Strauss, with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, based on his own play.
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 Orestes (mythology) - Art History Online Reference and Guide
According to Aeschylus, he met his sister Electra before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead; a recognition takes place, and they arrange how Orestes shall accomplish his revenge.
In Aeschylus's Eumenides, Orestes, after the deed (sometimes with Electra helping), goes mad, and is pursued by the Erinyes (Electra is not hounded by the Erinyes), whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety.
The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, and Orestes, of Euripides.
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 ipedia.com: Electra Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This article is about the Greek mythological personalities, for other meanings see Electra.
In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra : Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Dardanus,...
Electra was also the title of two ancient plays about the murder of Clytemnestra by Sophocles and Euripides.
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Under one roof; an outcast at this gate Let those within, then, if my grief offends, Life is a burden, death would be a boon.
Electra's sister, Chrysothemis, having found the offering of Orestes who meets her with the announcement that the Pedagogos has just despair, proposes to Chrysothemis that they should themselves attempt To haste with no regard for dignity, women.] From all the miseries thou hast undergone.
Whence canst thou any aid or comfort draw As sure as now thou seest me, he is here.
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 Electra Bicycle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 Texas cities and locations - Electra : Search by Region Texas cities and locations - Electra .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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 WWW transportation L-188 Electra union - L-188 Electra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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