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revenge her father's murder.
Agamemnon came back from the Trojan Wars only to be killed by his wife Clytemnestra (sister of Helen) and her lover. So after like 9-18 years long (depending on which timeline you follow), while others were slaughtered left and right, Agamemnon survives and as soon as he gets back home, gets the axe. DAMN! But he wasn't exactly the greatest family man, because he ordered his daughter killed as a sacrifice when he left for the war.
Okay, so Electra is his other daugther, and Orestes is her brother. Electra basically wants blood--BLOOD! The blood of the murderous duo Clytemnestra and her lover. Orestes is the one who does the killing, but the strategy is all Electra's.
Oh that whacky house of Atreus!
So the whole dynamic of a daugther desiring to replace her mother to get her father's affection is the Electra complex, named by Freud for this character, about 2000 years after it was written. The Greeks understood (or at least codified) many things that we would name and categorize thousands of years later. Note that Freud at Gyros at Spyros Pumpadumpalous' food-stand all the time!
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