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Electra was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.

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Electra or Elektra may also refer to:

Greek myth

  • Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades
  • Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo
  • Electra (Oceanid), the wife of Thaumas and mother of Iris and the Harpies

    • Works based on the Greek myth

  • Electra (Euripides play), a play by Euripides
  • Electra (Sophocles play), a play by Sophocles
  • Electra (Giraudoux play), a 1930 play by Giraudoux
  • Electra (Wijesinha play), a 1986 play by Rajiva Wijesinha
  • Elektra (Hofmannsthal play), a play by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocles
  • Elektra (opera), a 1909 opera by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Hofmannsthal adapted from the above play
  • Electra (1962 film), a film by Michael Cacoyannis, based on the Euripides play
  • Elektra (Theodorakis opera), an opera by Mikis Theodorakis
  • Elektra (started in 1949, first performed 1987), a play by Ezra Pound and Rudd Fleming
  • Mourning Becomes Electra, a 1931 play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill
  • Electra, a 1901 play written by Spanish writer Benito Perez Galdos

    • Outer space

  • Electra (star), 17 Tauri
  • 130 Elektra, an asteroid

    • Municipalities

  • Electra, California
  • Electra, Texas

    • Buildings

  • Electra (San Diego), a condominium tower located in downtown San Diego
  • Electra Building, Vancouver, a skyscraper

    • People with the given, professional or family name Electra or Elektra

  • Carmen Electra (born 1972), American model, actress, and singer
  • Elektra (name), female given name
  • Elektra (wrestling) (born 1970), stage name of Donna Adamo, professional wrestling valet and adult model
  • Elektra, Professional name of Efva Attling in modeling career
  • Elektra Ring name of Salina Bartunek, competed from 1992–1994 in American Gladiators
  • Elektra King, character in the film The World is Not Enough
  • Paul Oakenfold (born 1963), British producer and Trance music DJ
  • Electra Havemeyer Webb, American museum founder

    • Comics

  • Elektra: Assassin (1986), a comics miniseries dedicated to the Marvel character

    • Fictional entities

  • Electra (cat), a fictional character in T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and in the musical Cats
  • Elektra (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • "Electra", Cathy's dog in the Cathy comic strip
  • Electra the Electric Train, a character in Starlight Express
  • Elektra King, a character in the 1999 James Bond film The World is not Enough portrayed by Sophie Marceau
  • Mandy "Elektra" Perkins, a character in Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground

    • Film

  • Electra, My Love (1974), a Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó
  • Electra (1996 film), a Shannon Tweed film
  • Elektra (2005 film), a film based on the Marvel character
  • Elektra (2010 film), a Malayalam psychological drama film

    • Groups

  • Electra (band), an electronic musical band from the United Kingdom
  • Electra (Israeli band), an Israeli rock'n'roll band
  • Elektra (band), a pop rock band from Iceland
  • The Electra, an underground rock group from California

    • Albums and opera

  • Elektra (opera) (1909), by Richard Strauss
  • Electra (album), an album by Arild Andersen
  • Elektra (Suspekt album), a 2011 album by Danish band Suspekt
  • Elektra: The Album, the soundtrack to the 2005 film

    • Songs

  • "Electra" (song), a song by heavy metal band Dio

    • Business

  • Elektra (espresso machines), an Italian producer of high-quality espresso machines
  • Electra Bicycle Company, a Vista, California-based bicycle brand/company
  • Electra Guitars, a brand of imported electric guitar of the 70s and 80s
  • Electra Partners Europe, the pan-European private equity firm renamed Cognetas
  • Electra Private Equity, the London-based listed investment trust
  • Elektra Records, a U.S. record label
  • Grupo Elektra, a Mexican corporation

    • Science and technology

  • Electra (radio), telecommunications transceiver for Mars spacecraft
  • Electra (bryozoan), a prehistoric genus of bryozoan
  • Elektra (bug), a genus of insects in the tribe Mirini
  • Electra (teletext), a teletext service from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
  • Electra complex, a psychiatric concept
  • Electra, a satellite also known as Explorer-1 Prime
  • Elektra (layout engine)
  • Elektra, a navigation system developed from the Lorenz beam
  • Electra (satellite), a project for a communications satellite with all-electric propulsion

    • Transportation

  • Elektra (smartcard), a planned Hungarian smartcard-based fare payment system
  • Buick Electra, full-size premium automobiles built by the Buick division of General Motors
  • Lockheed L-188 Electra, an American turboprop airliner built by Lockheed
  • Lockheed Model 10 Electra, a twin-engine, all-metal monoplane airliner from the 1930s
  • Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior, an eight-seat, six-passenger all-metal twin-engine transport aircraft of the late 1930s
  • Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, a civil cargo and passenger aircraft
  • Electra, an express electric locomotive of the type British Rail Class 77 built in 1953 for the Woodhead Line
  • Electra, an early codename for the British Rail Class 91 electric locomotive
  • Electra, a Great Western Railway Firefly class 2-2-2 locomotive
  • Harley-Davidson Electra Glide, a motorcycle in the FL model series since 1965
  • HMS Electra, five ships
  • USS Electra

    • Organizations

  • Electra (arts organisation), London-based non-profit arts organisation
  • Elektra Berlin, a German association football club

    • Other uses

  • Elektra Festival is an International Digital Arts Festival in Montreal
  • Electra, a modern serif typeface, designed by William Addison Dwiggins

    • References

    Electra (disambiguation) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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