Electra


 * ELECTRA

**=Family=**

Electra was an Argive princess, and was the daughter of King Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks in the Trojan War, and Queen Clytemnestra. She was the sister of Orestes, the man who eventually avenged his father's death by murdering his mom and her new lover, Aegisthus, Agamemnon's own cousin. Electra also had sisters by the name of Iphigeneia and Chrysothemis. She also had a husband named Pylades.


 * =Description=**

She was a woman of nobility, being the daughter of the King of Greece, and she would grieve a lot about the death of her father. Electra was also a very helpful sister by aiding Orestes, as he disguised himself when he entered the palace to exact revenge on Queen Clytemnestra and his stepfather, Aegisthus. (//Electra at Agamemnon's grave)//


 * =Her Life=**

** = After knowing that her father had been murdered by his own wife and her new lover, Electra feared the worst for her brother Orestes. She sent him away to her uncle, King Strophius until he would grow to be capable of avenging Agamemnon's death. She lived in the palace until that time would come with a hidden feeling of hope towards this revenge, often cursing the adulterous mother, like this: //"O House of// //Hades// //and// //Persephone// //! O// //Hermes// //of the shades! O potent Curse, and you fearsome daughters of the gods, the// //Erinyes// //, who take note when a life is unjustly taken, when a marriage-bed is thievishly dishonored, come, help me, bring vengeance for the murder of my father and send me my brother."// When Orestes returned, entering the palace disguised, she helped him go, secret still intact, and finally murdered the Queen and Aegisthus. She then married Plyades, a loyal friend to Orestes. **=Sources=** [|http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Dr-Fi/Electra.html][|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra][|http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/GreekMyths/Electra/][] =