Euripides ' Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) is a tragedy probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC.

“Electra“ (Gr: “Elektra“ ) is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It tells the tale of Electra and her brother, Orestes, as they take their revenge on their mother, Clytemnestra, for her murder of their father, Agamemnon.

ORESTES and ELECTRA come out of the hut, followed by attendants who are carrying the two corpses. The following lines between ELECTRA, ORESTES and the CHORUS are chanted. But lo! from the house they come, dabbled in their mother's fresh-spilt gore, their triumph proving the piteous butchery.

Now as for those whom he left in his house when he sailed to Troy, [15] his son Orestes and his young daughter Electra: when Orestes was about to die at the hand of Aegisthus, his father's old servant stole him away and gave him to Strophius to bring up in the land of the Phocians.

2020年3月30日 · Electra is a Greek tragedy written by the playwright Euripides c. 420 BCE. It retells the classic myth concerning the plotting of Electra and her brother Orestes to kill their mother and her lover...

2004年12月10日 · "The Electra of Euripides" by Euripides is a classic ancient tragedy written in the early 5th century BC. The play centers around Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon, as she grapples with her tumultuous emotions and the looming vengeance for her father's murder at the hands of her mother, Clytemnestra, and her mother's lover, Aegisthus.

First produced in the mid-410s, Euripides’ Electra is an intertextual (and, thus, rather anti-tragical) parody of previous versions and dramatizations of the same myth. Set in a peaceful, rustic environment, the play is introduced by a rare guest in Ancient tragedy, an ordinary farmer, who, quite extraordinarily, describes himself as the ...