Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon

In Greek mythology, Electra was daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (636x700, 102 KB) William Blake Richmond – Electra on the tomb of Agamemnon (1874) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Electra The Oresteia Electra (Euripides) ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (636x700, 102 KB) William Blake Richmond – Electra on the tomb of Agamemnon (1874) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Electra The Oresteia Electra (Euripides) ... The so-called Mask of Agamemnon. Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae. ... The Oricoli bust of Zeus, King of the Gods, in the collection of the Vatican Museum. ... The so-called Mask of Agamemnon. Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae. ... Clytemnestra (Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα Klytaimnéstra, praiseworthy wooing) was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. ...

Electra 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. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra also killed Cassandra, Agamemnon's war prize, a prophet priestess of Troy. Eight years later Electra was brought from Athens with her brother, Orestes. (Odyssey, iii. 306; X. 542). A clay tablet with writing in Linear B from Mycenae. ... The fall of Troy by Johann Georg Trautmann (1713–1769) From the collections of the granddukes of Baden, Karlsruhe The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), by the armies of the Achaeans, after Paris of Troy... In Greek mythology, Aegisthus (goat strength, also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigísthos) was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. ... Painting by Evelyn De Morgan. ... Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína IPA: ) is the capital and largest city of Greece. ... The Remorse of Orestes by William-Adolphe Bouguereau For other uses, see Orestes (disambiguation). ... Odysseus and Nausicaä - by Charles Gleyre The Odyssey (Greek: , Odusseia) is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to the poet Homer. ...

According to Pindar (Pythia, xi. 25), Orestes was saved by his old nurse or by Electra, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him. In his twentieth year, Orestes was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and avenge his father's death. Pindar (or Pindarus) (522 BC – 443 BC), perhaps the greatest of the nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, was born at Cynoscephalae, a village in Thebes. ... Mount Parnassus is a mountain of barren limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. ... In Greek mythology, Strophius was a King of Phocis and father of Pylades. ... The amphitheatre, seen from above. ... An oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ...

According to Aeschylus, he met Electra before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge. Pylades and Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus (in some accounts with Electra helping). Bust of Aeschylus from the Capitoline Museums, Rome Aeschylus (525 BC—456 BC; Greek: Ασχύλος) was a playwright of Ancient Greece. ...

Afterwards, Orestes went mad, and was pursued by the Erinyes, or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety. Electra, however, was not hounded by the Erinyes. Orestes took refuge in the temple at Delphi. Even though Apollo (to whom the Delphic temple was dedicated) had ordered him to do the deed, he was powerless to protect Orestes from the consequences of his actions. In Greek mythology the Erinyes (Ερινύες) or Eumenides (the Romans called them the Furies) were female personifications of vengeance. ... The amphitheatre, seen from above. ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ...

At last Athena (also known as Areia) received him on the Acropolis of Athens and arranged a formal trial of the case before twelve Attic judges. The Erinyes demanded their victim; he pleaded the orders of Apollo; the votes of the judges were equally divided, and Athena gave her casting vote for acquittal. Helmeted Athena, of the Velletri type. ... The Acropolis of Athens, seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ... For other uses, see Athens (disambiguation). ... This article is about Attica in Greece. ...

In Iphigeneia in Tauris, Euripides tells the tale somewhat differently. He claims that Orestes was led by the Furies to Tauris on the Black Sea, where his sister Iphigeneia was being held. The two met when Orestes and Pylades were brought to Iphigeneia to be prepared for sacrifice to Artemis. Iphigeneia, Orestes and Pylades escaped from Tauris, and the Furies, sated by the reunion of the family, abated their persecution. Iphigeneia in Tauris (in Greek: ) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written sometime between 414 BC and 412 BC. It bears much in common with another of Euripides plays, Helen, and is often described as a romance, a melodrama, or an escape play. ... The sacrifice of Iphigenia by the Illioupersis Painter Iphigeneia (, also Iphigenia and sometimes Iphianassa) was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. ... The Diana of Versailles, a Roman copy of a sculpture by Leochares (Louvre Museum) Artemis (Greek: nominative , genitive ), in Olympian Greek mythology the daughter of Zeus and of Leto and the twin sister of Apollo, was one of the most widely venerated gods and manifestly one of the oldest deities...

Later, Pylades and Electra fell in love and married. Pylades was the son of King Strophius (who had cared for Orestes while he hid from his mother and her lover), and had helped Orestes and Electra kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

According to Euripides, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus had previously given Electra in marriage to a peasant, believing that her children would be less likely to take revenge if they were not of noble birth, but the peasant respected her and declined to consummate the marriage.

Psychology

The psychological concept of the Electra complex is named after her. The Electra complex is an ambiguous psychiatric concept which attempts to explain the maturation of the human female. ...

Electra and Orestes, from an 1897 Stories from the Greek Tragedians, by Alfred Church

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Adaptations of the Electra story

• The Oresteia, a trilogy of plays by Aeschylus
• Electra, play by Sophocles
• Electra, play by Euripides
• Electra, drama by Danilo Kiš
• The Flies, a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, modernizing the Electra myth around the theme of existentialism.
• Elektra, a play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, based on the Sophocles play.
• Mourning Becomes Electra, play by Eugene O'Neill, based on Aeschylus
• Elektra, film by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Irene Papas, based on Euripides.
• Elektra, opera by composer Richard Strauss, with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, based on his own play.
• Ellie (movie), B-movie which transfers the story to a Southern U.S. locale.
• Szerelmem, Elektra (aka Elektra, My Love), film by Miklós Jancsó, starring Mari Törõcsik.
• Elektra, The story by Marvel about Elektra and her coming back to life as a warrior.