Electra

Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sister of Iphigenia and Orestes. After her father's murder by her mother, she saved the life of the young Orestes, and sent him to King Strophius to be brought up; and then helped him to avenge Agamemnon's death by slaying Clytemnestra. She was given in marriage by Orestes to his friend Pylares. Her story is the subject of a splendid tragedy by Sophocles, and was treated also by Æschylus and Euripides.