Electra

She is also the central figure in plays by Aeschylus, Alfieri, Voltaire, Hofmannsthal, Eugene O'Neill, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

When he came back, he brought with him his war prize, the Trojan princess Cassandra, who had already borne him twin sons.

Clytemnestra had held a grudge against her husband for sacrificing their eldest daughter, Iphigenia, to the goddess Artemis in exchange for a fair wind so that he could set sail for Troy.

25), Orestes was saved either by his old nurse or by Electra from being killed by his mother, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.

When Orestes was twenty, the Oracle of Delphi ordered him to return home and avenge his father's death.

[4] Orestes and his friend Pylades, son of King Strophius of Phocis and Anaxibia, killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus (in some accounts with Electra helping).

The Erinyes or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety, fulfill this curse with their torment.

Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon , Frederic Leighton c. 1869
Orestes , Electra and Hermes at the tomb of Agamemnon , lucanian red-figure pelike , c. 380–370 BC, Louvre (K 544)
Electra and Orestes , from an 1897 Stories from the Greek Tragedians , by Alfred Church