One of the Oceanids; daughter of Oceanus and Tethys
InGreek mythology ,Electra (/ɪ ˈ l ɛ k t r ə Ancient Greek :Ἠλέκτρα ,romanized : Ēléktra lit. Oceanids ,water-nymph daughters of theTitans Oceanus and his sister-spouseTethys .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
According toHesiod , she was the wife ofThaumas , and by him, the mother ofIris , the goddess of rainbows and a messenger for the gods, and theHarpies .[ 4]
The names of Electra's Harpy daughters vary. Hesiod andApollodorus named themAello andOcypete .Virgil namedCelaeno as one of the Harpies.[ 5] Hyginus ,Fabulae Podarce , as daughters of Thaumas and Electra, atFabuale 14.18, the Harpies were said to be named Aellopous, Celaeno, and Ocypete, and were the daughters of Thaumas andOzomene .[ 6]
The late 4th-early 5th century poetNonnus gives Electra and Thaumas two children: Iris, and the river godHydaspes .[ 7]
Along with her sisters,Electra was one of the companions ofPersephone when the daughter ofDemeter was abducted byHades .[ 8]
^ Hesiod ,Theogony 349 &362–366 ;Homeric Hymn to Demeter 5 &418 ;Apollodorus ,1.2.2 ^ Kerényi , Carl (1951).The Gods of the Greeks . London:Thames and Hudson . p. 41.^ Bane, Theresa (2013).Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 122.ISBN 9780786471119 ^ Hesiod ,Theogony 265–269 ,780–381 ; alsoApollodorus ,1.2.6 ;Hyginus ,Fabulae Preface .^ Virgil ,Aeneid 3 211–212 ;Servius on Virgil,Aeneid 3.212 ^ Hyginus,Fabulae 14.18 ^ Nonnus ,Dionysiaca 26.358–362 ^ Homeric Hymn toDemeter Pausanias ,Graeciae Descriptio 4.30.4Apollodorus ,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .Hesiod ,Theogony fromThe Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website .Gaius Julius Hyginus ,Fabulae Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology, Translated, with Introductions by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma , Hackett Publishing Company, 2007.ISBN 978-0-87220-821-6 Gaius Julius Hyginus ,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project. Kerényi, Carl ,The Gods of the Greeks , Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.Nonnus ,Dionysiaca Rouse, W H D , II Books XVI–XXXV.Loeb Classical Library No. 345, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1940.Internet Archive Maurus Servius Honoratus ,In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library .Pausanias ,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Publius Vergilius Maro ,Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Publius Vergilius Maro,Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics . J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library . Smith, William ;Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology "Electra 1."
