Jan 2, 2010
Electra | Electra
At a glance:
- Author: Euripides
- First Published: 413
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: After the fall of Troy
- Setting: Argos
- Principal Characters: Electra, Orestes, Clytemnestra, Aegisthus
- Genres: Drama, Character study, Tragedy
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Murder or homicide, Mistaken or secret identity, Obsession, Women, Revenge, Kings, queens, or royalty, Gods or goddesses, Fratricide, parricide, or filicide, Rites or ceremonies, Prophecy or prophets, Greek or Roman times, Greece or Greek people, Trojan War
- Locales: Greece, ancient, Argos, ancient
The Story:
When Agamemnon, the king of Argos, returned home from the Trojan
War, he was murdered in cold blood by his wife, Clytemnestra, and
her lover, Aegisthus. Afterward, Aegisthus and Clytemnestra were
married, and Aegisthus became king. Orestes, the young son of
Agamemnon, was sent by a relative to Phocis before Aegisthus could
destroy him. Electra, the daughter, remained, but was given in
marriage to an old peasant, lest she marry a warrior powerful
enough to avenge her father’s death.
One day, after Electra and the peasant had gone out to do the
day’s work,...
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