Dec 21, 2009

Electra | Characters

Aegisthos
Son of Thyestes, Aegisthos is Clytemnestra's former lover (and now husband) who conspired with her to murder Agamemnon.

Chorus of Mycenaean Women
The Chorus provides background information and narrates the offstage violence. While they recognize the justice of Electra's cause, they urge her to take a stoic position. They deplore Clytemnestra's crime but advise Electra, rather than seek revenge, to leave revenge to the gods and to accept the fact that all people, being mortal, die.

Chrysothemis
Daughter of Agamemnon and...