220A-Odyssey: The Castaways
Myths and Legends
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Agamemnon's Daughter, Electra
Electra, agamemnon's daughter, hadn't had a life since the night her brother was spirited away. She dreamed she gave birth to a serpent, and with dream logic, swaddled it and held it to her chest to feed it. Drew blood. It killed her. The soothsayers all said the same thing, it wasn't the gods that were angry with her. It was Agamemnon. He called out from the grave for his honors, for the libations. Now, now, the gods had brought electra and orestes together. Tes had gone to the delphigorical and heard from apollo himself.
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