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Electra

Agamemnon's daughter, who refuses to stop mourning or stop accusing, keeping the murdered king's memory alive like an open wound in the palace.

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Also known as Electra Dawn, Electra Bitter constraint, Electra Success, Electra Woe, Electra Hark, Electra O King Apollo, Electra Brother, Electra Thou, Electra E'en

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Electra lingers in the house of her father's killers, unwed and degraded, while her mother rules beside Aegisthus. She clings to grief with a fierceness the Chorus calls fruitless, insisting that forgetting would be a…

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OROrestesCHChrysothemisAEAegisthusPYPyladesMEMenelausELElectra

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