Electra
Ἠλέκτρα
Agamemnon's daughter, who never forgot her father's death and waited for her brother.
In the house where her mother had killed her father, she lived like a servant, waiting only for her brother Orestes to return.
Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides all wrote plays about her — a rare case where surviving works by all three dramatists share one subject.
In 1913, Jung borrowed her name to coin the term Electra complex.
SourcesSophocles, Electra; Euripides, Electra