In Greek mythology, Electra or Elektra (/ɪˈlɛktrə/; Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra, "amber") was the name of the following women:
- Electra (Oceanid), one of the Oceanids who was the wife of Thaumas and mother of Iris and the Harpies.[1]
- Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades.[2]
- Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus, king of Libya and the naiad Polyxo. She married and later killed her husband Peristhenes or Hyperantus following the commands of her father.[3][4]
- Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.[5]
- Electra, handmaiden of Helen who fastened her mistress' sandals when she went to the walls of Troy.[6]
- Electra, sister of Cadmus, of whom he named after the Electran gate at Thebes.[7][8] She might be instead the mother of Cadmus because later writers noted that the other name for his mother Telephassa was Electra.[9]
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 337–370
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.5.1, 3.12.1 & 3
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.1.5
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 170
- ^ Apollodorus, Epitome 2.16 & 6.23–28
- ^ Pausanias, 10.25.4
- ^ Pausanias, 9.8.4
- ^ Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.916
- ^ "On Samothrace... the mother was called Elektra or Elektryone" as Karl Kerenyi noted (Kerenyi 1959:27)