According to
Hesiod, she was the wife of
Thaumas, and by him, the mother of
Iris, the goddess of rainbows and a messenger for the gods, and the
Harpies.[4]
The names of Electra's Harpy daughters vary. Hesiod and
Apollodorus named them
Aello and
Ocypete.
Virgil named
Celaeno as one of the Harpies.[5] However, while
Hyginus, Fabulae Preface had the Harpies, Celaeno, Ocypete, and
Podarce, as daughters of Thaumas and Electra, at Fabuale 14.18, the Harpies were said to be named Aellopous, Celaeno, and Ocypete, and were the daughters of Thaumas and
Ozomene.[6] Ozomene may have been a secondary name for Electra, meaning "many-branches."
The late 4th-early 5th century poet
Nonnus gives Electra and Thaumas two children: Iris, and the river god
Hydaspes.[7]
Mythology
Along with her sisters, Electra was one of the companions of
Persephone when the daughter of
Demeter was abducted by
Hades.[8]
Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae in 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.
ISBN978-0-87220-821-6.