Electra/Definition

From Greek mythology, she was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra who helped avenge the death of her father by working with her brother Orestes. Source: Elizabeth Vandiver, Classics scholar, authority on Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, including the Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, Homer, and Virgil. This definition is based on her course Classical Mythology for The Teaching Company.