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Electra

*)Hle/ktra), i. e. the bright or brilliant one.

1. A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, and the wife of Thaumas, by whom she became the mother of Iris and the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 419; Hes. Th. 266; Apollod. 1.2. §§ 2, 6; Paus. 4.33.6 ; Serv. ad Aen. 3.212.)

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    • Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 1.2
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 266
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4.33.6
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