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There are several meanings known in classical mythology. After Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Electra was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra {see, respectively, planets  (911) and  (179)} and sister of Orestes, Iphigenia {see planet  (112)}, and Chrysothemis

{see planet  (637)}. Electra incited her brother Orestes to avenge their father’s murder by killing their mother and her lover Aegisthus. (Z 92)