What Does Electra Mean?
Electra in Greek mythology was the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra. She was not present in the kingdom of Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War. Upon his returned from the war, he and his mistress Cassandra (who was his war prize and a prophet priestess of Troy) were murdered by Aegisthus, the lover of Electra’s mother Queen Clytemnestra. Clytemnestra was also to said to have been involved in the murder of her husband and his mistress along with her lover. Eight years after the death of their father, Electra returned to Athens with her brother Orestes. According to Pindar, Orestes was either saved by his sister Electra or by his old nurse, and then taken to the kingdom of Phanote on Mount Parnassus. It was here that he was placed under the care of King Strophius. When Orestes was twenty years old, he was ordered by the oracle of Delphi to return home to Mycenae, where he was entrusted with the task of avenging the death of his father.
