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Electra, in Greek legend, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who saved the life of her young brother Orestes by sending him away when their father was murdered. When he later returned, she helped him to slay their mother and their mother’s lover, Aegisthus. Electra then married Orestes’.
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Very little is known of Euripides' early life. He was born in the 480s BCE on the island of Salamis near Athens to a family of hereditary priests. Although he preferred a life of seclusion, alone with his books, he was married and had three sons, one of whom became a minor playwright. Many suspect that the son may have completed Iphigenia in Aulis ...
The play opens in front of a small farmer's cottage near the Greek city of Argos. Next to the house is an altar to the Greek god Apollo. The farmer - Electra's husband - speaks aloud of the fallen king Agamemnon and his children Electra and Orestes. He relates how young Orestes was “snatched away and grew up in the land of Phocis” (194). A price wa...
The story of the murder of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus was written about in three different plays: Aeschylus' Libation Bearers (part of his Oresteia), Sophocles' Electra, and Euripedes' Electra. All three tell a different version of the same events: Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus have killed Agamemnon. Years later, Electra waits for the return...
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Electra, in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sister of Orestes, Chrysotemis and Iphigenia. She is the main character in a play of the same name by Sophocles and another by Euripides, in addition to the parody by Aeschylus.
In Greek mythology Electra was the Pleiad star-nymph of Mount Saon on the island of Samothrace in the north Aegean. She was loved by Zeus and bore him two sons, Dardanus, ancestor of the Trojan royal family, and Iasion, founder of the Samothracian Mysteries.
Jun 27, 2018 · Electra is a free adaptation of the play of the same name by the ancient Greek dramatist, Sophocles. The story focuses on the consequences of the murder of Agamemnon. Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae who was killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus upon his return from the Trojan War.
In Greek mythology, Electra or Elektra (/ ɪ ˈ l ɛ k t r ə /; Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra, "amber") was the name of the following women: Electra (Oceanid), one of the Oceanids who was the wife of Thaumas and mother of Iris and the Harpies. Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades.
“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.
