| Electra -amber Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. She aided her brother Orestes in avenging the murder of their father by their mother and Aegisthus. One of the Pleiades, the mythical ancestors of the Trojans. She is known as the "Lost Pleiad" for she is said to have disappeared before the Trojan War so that she would not see her favorite city destroyed. She shows herself occasionly, but only in the guise of a comet. An Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. Mother (by Thaumas) of Iris, goddess of the rainbow, and also of the loathsome Harpies. |
