Elāra, the mother of Tiphyus by Jupiter. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 4.——A daughter of Orchomenus king of Arcadia. Strabo, bk. 9.
Elatēa, the largest town of Phocis, near the Cephisus. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 34.
Elatia, a town of Phocis. Livy, bk. 28, ch. 7.——Of Thessaly. Livy, bk. 42, ch. 54.
Elātus, one of the first Ephori of Sparta, B.C. 760. Plutarch, Lycurgus.——The father of Ceneus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 497.——A mountain of Asia,——of Zacynthus.——The father of Polyphemus the Argonaut by Hipseia. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 9.——The son of Arcas king of Arcadia by Erato, who retired to Phocis. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 9.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 4.——A king in the army of Priam, killed by Agamemnon. Homer, Iliad, bk. 6.——One of Penelope’s suitors, killed by Eumeus. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 22, li. 267.
Elaver, a river in Gaul falling into the Loire, now the Allier.
Elea, a town of Campania, whence the followers of Zeno were called the Eleatic sect. Cicero, Academica, bk. 4, ch. 42; Tusculanæ Disputationes, bk. 2, chs. 21 & 22; de Natura Deorum, bk. 3, ch. 33.——Of Æolia.
Electra, one of the Oceanides, wife of Atlas, and mother of Dardanus by Jupiter. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 4, li. 31.——A daughter of Atlas and Pleione. She was changed into a constellation, Apollodorus, bk. 3, chs. 10 & 12.——One of the Danaides. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.——A daughter of Agamemnon king of Argos. She first incited her brother Orestes to revenge his father’s death by assassinating his mother Clytemnestra. Orestes gave her in marriage to his friend Pylades, and she became mother of two sons, Strophius and Merdon. Her adventures and misfortunes form one of the interesting tragedies of the poet Sophocles. Hyginus, fable 122.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 16.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 4, ch. 26, &c.——A sister of Cadmus. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 8.——A city and river of Messenia in Peloponnesus. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 33.——One of Helen’s female attendants. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 25.
Electræ, a gate of Thebes. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 8.
Electrĭdes, islands in the Adriatic sea, which received their name from the quantity of amber (electrum) which they produced. They were at the mouth of the Po, according to Apollonius of Rhodes, but some historians doubt their existence. Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 26; bk. 37, ch. 2.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.
Electryon, a king of Argos, son of Perseus and Andromeda. He was brother to Alcæus, whose daughter Anaxo he married, and by her he had several sons, and one daughter, Alcmene. He sent his sons against the Teleboans, who had ravaged his country, and they were all killed except Licymnius. Upon this Electryon promised his crown and daughter in marriage to him who could undertake to punish the Teleboans for the death of his sons. Amphitryon offered himself and succeeded. Electryon inadvertently perished by the hand of his son-in-law. See: [Amphitryon], [Alcmena]. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Pausanias.