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Electra was daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.
Electra or Elektra may also refer to:
Greek myth
- Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades
- Electra, an Oceanid
- Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo. She married (and murdered) Peristhenes, son of Aegyptus and Caliadne.
Works based on the Greek myth
- Electra (Sophocles), a play by Sophocles
- Electra (Euripides), a play by Euripides
- Elektra (opera), an opera by Richard Strauss
- Elektra (Hofmannsthal), a play by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Electra (1962 film), a film by Michael Cacoyannis
- Electra (album), an album by Arild Andersen
- Elektra (Theodorakis), an opera by Mikis Theodorakis
Other fictional works
- Elektra (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Elektra (2005 film), a film based on the Marvel character
- Elektra: The Album, the soundtrack to the 2005 film
- Electra the Electric Train, a character in Starlight Express
- "Electra", Cathy's dog in the Cathy comic strip
- Electra (1996 film), a Shannon Tweed film
Geography
- Electra, Texas
- Electra Building, Vancouver, a skyscraper
- Electra Building, San Diego, a condominium tower located in Downtown San Diego
Transportation
- Elektra (smartcard), a planned Hungarian smartcard-based fare payment system
- Lockheed L-10 Electra
- Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Buick Electra
- Electra Bicycle Company
- Electra, a 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.
Miscellaneous
- Elektra Festival is an International Digital Arts Festival in Montreal
- HMS Electra, four ships
- Elektra Records, a U.S. record label
- Electra (star), 17 Tauri
- Electra (teletext), a teletext service from the early 1980s to the early 1990s
- 130 Elektra, an asteroid
- Electra complex, a psychiatric concept
- Grupo Elektra, a Mexican corporation
- Elektra Initiative, an alternative back-end for text configuration files
- Donna Adamo or Elektra, professional wrestling valet
- Electra (cat), a fictional cat in T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
- Electra, one of the first popular modern serif typefaces, designed by W. A. Dwiggins
- Electra Guitars, a brand of imported electric guitar of the 70's and 80's
People with the given or family name Electra or Elektra
- Carmen Electra, American model, actress, and singer
- Elektra King, character in the film The World is Not Enough
- Elektra (Salina Bartunek) of the American Gladiators competed from 1992-1994
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