Electra is from the Greek Ēléktrā (Ἠλέκτρα — amber, shining one). A modern American baby name in the broader Greek heritage aesthetic. Electra in Greek mythology is the daughter of King Agamemnon of Mycenae and Queen Clytemnestra, sister of Orestes, Iphigenia, and Chrysothemis. Appears as protagonist in Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy (458 BCE), Sophocles's Electra (c. 410 BCE), and Euripides's Electra (c. 413 BCE) — one of the great tragic heroines of world drama. Her role in her mother Clytemnestra's death (avenging Agamemnon's murder after the Trojan War) makes her a morally complex classical figure. The Electra complex was coined by Carl Jung (1913) as the feminine counterpart to Freud's Oedipus complex. *Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Richard Strauss's opera Elektra*** (1909) with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is a modern opera + German Expressionism masterwork.
Featured throughout Greek heritage and Western tragedy.
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