Electra

Also known as Soph. El.

ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles

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Written by: Sophocles
Chorus: Women of Mycenae
Characters: Paedagogus, Orestes , Electra , Chrysothemis , Clytemnestra , Aegisthus
Mute: Pylades , Handmaid of Clytemnestra, The Attendants of Orestes
Date premiered: c. 420–414 BC
Place premiered: City Dionysia
Original language: Ancient Greek
Genre: Greek tragedy
Setting: Mycenae, before the palace of the Pelopidae

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Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra, also called The Electra), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. The original publication date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) leads scholars to believe it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Richard Claverhouse Jebb dates it between 420 BC and 414 BC.

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