The heroic ardour of Antigone, and the no less heroic persistence and endurance of electra, are both founded on the strength of their affection.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles
No startling headlines such as we see now, but a continued novel among the advertisements on the front page and verses from some gifted lady of the town, signed electra.
"The Crisis, Volume 4"
Winston Churchill
The Antigone and the electra of the tragic poets are the two leading female characters that classical antiquity offers to our respect, but assuredly not to our impassioned love, as disciplined and exalted in the school of Shakspeare.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey