In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

it was released on the 27th of April in Ireland and the 30th of April in the UK, and features the titular character, Electra Heart, as a fictional character of Marina's creation who epitomizes the American female at her very worst, in the four " Archetypes "; the Primadonna, SuBarbieA, Homewrecker, and the Teen Idle.

Other tragedians also used recognition scenes but they were heroic in emphasis, as in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, which Euripides parodied with his mundane treatment of it in Electra ( Euripides was unique among the tragedians in incorporating theatrical criticism in his plays ).

In contrast, Aeschylus never exceeded twenty lines of stichomythia ; Sophocles's longest such scene was fifty lines and it is interrupted several times by αντιλαβή ( Electra, lines 1176-1226 ).

The technology of the Lockheed Electra airliner was also used in military aircraft, such as the P-3 Orion and the C-130 Hercules, using the Allison T56.

* The first flight at Dulles was an Eastern Air Lines Super Electra turboprop arriving from Newark International Airport in New Jersey on November 19, 1962.

That attempt ended in Hawaii when her Lockheed Electra 10E was severely damaged.

According to Pindar, the young Orestes was saved by his nurse Arsinoe ( Laodamia ) or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him.

In his twentieth year, he was urged by Electra to return home and avenge his father's death.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

In Greek mythology, Dardanus ( Greek: Δάρδανος ) was a son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad.

This tradition holds that Dardanus was a Tyrrhenian prince, and that his mother Electra was married to Corythus, king of Tarquinia ( Aeneid 7. 195-242 ; 8.

In Greek mythology, Electra (, Ēlektra ) was the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus princess of Argos.

Eight years later, Electra was brought from Athens with her brother, Orestes.

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

Electra was not hounded by the Erinyes.

* Electra, a lost play by Quintus Tullius Cicero of which nothing is known but the name and that it was " a tragedy in the Greek style "

Strophius was also the name of one of Pylades ' sons with Electra, Orestes ' sister.

In some versions he was sent away by Clytemnestra to avoid having him present during the murder of Agamemnon ; in others Electra herself rescued the infant Orestes and sent him away to protect him from their mother.

According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite ; By yet another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island.

The name Dardanelles derives from Dardania, an ancient land on the Asian shore of the strait which in turn takes its name from Dardanus, the mythical son of Zeus and Electra.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

For example, producer Mark " Hot Rod " Trollan copied bass-line sections from the 1983 Italo disco song " Feels Good ( Carrots & Beets )" ( by Electra featuring Tara Butler ) to form the basis of his 1986 production of " Your Love " by Jamie Principle.

* 1960 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.

** American Airlines Flight 320, a Lockheed L-188 Electra heading from Chicago to New York City, crashes into the East River, killing 65 of the 73 people on board.

Seven years later, Orestes returned from Athens and with his sister Electra avenged his father's death by slaying his mother and her lover Aegisthus.

Electra and Orestes, from Alfred Church, Stories from the Greek Tragedians, 1897

Electra and Orestes ( mythology ) | Orestes, from an 1897 Stories from the Greek Tragedians, by Alfred Church

With financing from Purdue, in July 1936, a Lockheed Electra 10E was built at Lockheed Aircraft Company to her specifications which included extensive modifications to the fuselage to incorporate a large fuel tank.

On July 2, 1937, midnight GMT, Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae in the heavily loaded Electra.

Motion picture evidence from Lae suggests that an antenna mounted underneath the fuselage may have been torn off from the fuel-heavy Electra during taxi or takeoff from Lae's turf runway, though no antenna was reported found at Lae.

If transmissions were received from the Electra, most if not all were weak and hopelessly garbled.

Operators across the Pacific and the United States may have heard signals from the downed Electra but these were unintelligible or weak.

" Rear Admiral Richard R. Black, USN, who was in administrative charge of the Howland Island airstrip and was present in the radio room on the Itasca, asserted in 1982 that " the Electra went into the sea about 10 am, July 2, 1937 not far from Howland ".

Seven or eight years after the death of Agamemnon, Agamemnon's son Orestes returned to Mycenae and, with the help of his cousin Pylades and his sister Electra, killed both their mother, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus.

While at Mycenae, Hermione presumably would have met her cousins Iphigenia ( whom most sources say was the daughter of Helen's sister, Clytemnestra and Menelaus ' brother, Agamemnon, although others say that Clytemnestra had taken pity on Helen and adopted Iphigenia from her ) and Electra and their younger brother Orestes.

* Electra is a character in the game Dante's Inferno, in which the player can choose either to punish or absolve her when she is encountered in Limbo.

Grew up and lived in Electra until 1943 when he joined the Navy.

The 455 was the standard engine on the Electra, but there were some built with Buick 350s during the GM strike, when 455 production halted.

After the rear wheel drive Electra was discontinued, the Estate Wagon continued to be produced with the rear wheel drive Electra's front end fascia until 1990 when it was replaced by the Buick Roadmaster Estate.

), Electra laughs at the idea of using such tokens to recognize her brother because: there is no reason their hair should match ; Orestes ' footprint would in no way resemble her smaller footprint ; and it would be illogical for a grown Orestes to still have a piece of clothing made for him when he was a small child.

The team was created in 1919 when a group of friends that used to play in a team called the " Electra " at first and then " Once de Abril " ( April the 11th ) met at " Salon París ".

The company was a ticket provider for Electra Airlines until 25 April 2003, when the Electra aircraft were grounded by BAA plc over debts owed to the airport operator.

The greatest loss of life directly linked to a bird strike was on October 4, 1960, when Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra flying from Boston, flew through a flock of common starlings during take off, damaging all four engines.

Another prominent example of anagnorisis in tragedy is in Aeschylus's " The Choephoroi " (" Libation Bearers ") when Electra recognizes her brother, Orestes, after he has returned to Argos from his exile, at the grave of their father, Agamemnon, who had been murdered at the hands of Clytemnestra, their mother.

Aegisthus refuses to fight back when Orestes and Electra confront him.

Electra was a teletext service in the United States that was in operation from the early 1980s up until 1993, when it was shut down due to a lack of funding, and discontinuation of teletext-capable television sets by the only US television manufacturer offering teletext capability at the time, Zenith.

The Trans Service Airlift Lockheed L-188 crash occurred on 18 December 1995 when a Lockheed L-188C Electra owned by Trans Service Airlift crashed shortly after takeoff from Jamba Airport ( JMB ), Angola, killing 141 of the passengers and crew.