Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's children included Orestes, Iphigenia, Electra, and Chrysothemis. The family was destroyed when Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon upon his return from Troy, and Orestes later killed her in revenge.
In several traditions, Orestes gave his sister Electra in marriage to his loyal companion Pylades after the vengeance against Clytemnestra and Aegisthus was complete.
Electra and Orestes, siblings united by grief, together plotted the killing of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus to avenge their father Agamemnon's murder.
Electra endured years under Aegisthus's rule of Mycenae after he helped Clytemnestra murder Agamemnon. She aided Orestes in killing Aegisthus to avenge their father.
Electra despised her mother Clytemnestra for murdering Agamemnon and endured years of mistreatment in the palace. She kept Orestes's memory alive and helped plan the matricide.
In Sophocles's Electra, Chrysothemis urges her sister to submit to Clytemnestra and Aegisthus rather than resist. Electra rejects her pragmatism, and the sisters' conflict mirrors their opposing responses to injustice.
Electra helped plan the matricide that brought the Erinyes upon Orestes, yet the Furies pursued only the one who struck the blow. Electra's role as instigator went unpunished.
Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis was Clytemnestra's stated justification for murdering him. Electra rejected this reasoning, insisting her father's killing demanded vengeance regardless of Iphigenia's fate.
Pylades conspired with Electra and Orestes to avenge their father Agamemnon. In Euripides' Electra, the three planned the murders together, and Pylades later married Electra, binding their families permanently.
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