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.

Electra was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War to be murdered, either by Clytemnestra's lover Aegisthus, by Clytemnestra herself, or by both.

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, 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.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

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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 )

Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) funds were used by the Bureau of Air Commerce to construct three graded, unpaved runways meant to accommodate Earhart's modern twin-engined Lockheed Model 10 Electra.

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.

As opposed to the psychoanalytic tradition, driven by the relatively speculative ( in the sense of being hard to empirically verify ), theoretical concepts such as the Oedipus complex or Electra complex, the cognitive tradition of research on unconscious processes is based on relatively few theoretical assumptions and is very empirically oriented ( i. e., it is mostly data driven ).

The Model 14 Super Electra were sold abroad, and more than 100 were license-built in Japan for use by the Imperial Japanese Army.

In addition, he has been a " talent promoter " for the careers of Sheila E., Carmen Electra, The Time and Vanity 6, and his songs have been recorded by these artists and others ( including Chaka Khan, The Bangles, Sinéad O ' Connor, and even Kim Basinger ).

" Electra in Euripides ' Electra ( c. 410 BCE, line 54 ), in the translation by David Kovacs ( 1998 ).

When James discovers in horror that his father is a slave trader, he frees the slaves on the ship and overthrows the ship's captain ( who then is killed by Electra ), and then murders the quartermaster with a metal hook.

Another Samothracian connection for Cadmus is offered via his wife Harmonia, who is said by Diodorus Siculus to be daughter of Zeus and Electra and of Samothracian birth.

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.

The same myth is told differently by Sophocles and Euripides in their Electra plays.

* Corythus, an Italian king and father, in some sources, of Iasion, by Electra.

Electra is the main character in two Greek tragedies, Electra by Sophocles and Electra by Euripides, and has inspired other works.

But last week's pirates, like the Cuban-American who recently hijacked an Eastern Airlines Electra ( Newsweek, Aug. 7 ), wanted to go to Havana.

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis.

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.

# The Electra ( Elektra ) paradox: Electra doesn't know that the man approaching her is her brother, Orestes.

Electra knows her brother.

Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States, where she had earlier appeared in 1931, performing Clytemnestra in a modern Greek version of Electra.

They include Hector, Julius Caesar, Virgil, Electra, and Orpheus.

* 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.

* Link to " American Electra: Feminism's Ritual Matricide ," in Harper's Magazine, http :// harpers. org / archive / 2010 / 10 / 0083140

Agamemnon's son Orestes, who had been away, returned and conspired with his sister Electra to avenge their father.

Another child of Gaia and Pontus is Thaumas, who marries Electra, a sister of Doris, and has Iris ( Rainbow ) and two Harpies.

Large military and civil aircraft, such as the Lockheed L-188 Electra and the Tupolev Tu-95, have also used turboprop power.

** 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.

In the 1930s, Lockheed spent $ 139, 400 ($) to develop the Model 10 Electra, a small twin-engine transport.