Electra, one of the
Danaids, daughter of
Danaus, king of
Libya and the
naiadPolyxo. She married and later killed her husband Peristhenes or Hyperantus following the commands of her father.[3][4]
Electra, handmaiden of
Helen who fastened her mistress' sandals when she went to the walls of
Troy.[6]
Electra, sister of
Cadmus, of whom he named after the Electran gate at
Thebes.[7][8] She might be instead the mother of Cadmus because later writers noted that the other name for his mother
Telephassa was Electra.[9]
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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