Electra (disambiguation)

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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

• 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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