- the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and sister of Orestes and Electra: when she was about to be sacrificed to ensure a wind to take the Greek ships to Troy, she was saved by Artemis, whose priestess she became.
- a female given name.
- the daughter of Agamemnon, taken by him to be sacrificed to Artemis, who saved her life and made her a priestess
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