Electra

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Sophocles: Electra (1954, Penguin Books)

217 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 1954 by Penguin Books.

OCLC Number:
871041

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Electra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

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Subjects

  • Sophocles -- Translations into English
  • Electra (Greek mythology) -- Drama