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ELECTRA 100X65

In Greek mythology, Electra (ancient Greek for "amber") was one of the daughters of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and his wife Clytemnestra. She was thus an Atreus - a descendant of King Atreus, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. In the tradition known to Homer, her name is Laodice (ancient Greek for "common justice").

Her myth revolves around the plan she hatched with her brother Orestes to avenge the murder of their father by killing those who had perpetrated it: her own mother Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus.

The conflict with her mother gives its name to the "Electra complex", a term proposed by psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung.