| Electra | |
|---|---|
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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 |
| Place premiered | City Dionysia |
| Original language | Ancient Greek |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Setting | Mycenae, before the palace of the Pelopidae |
Electra, also Elektra or The Electra[1] (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα,[2] Ēlektra), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Jebb dates it between 420 BC and 414 BC.[3]
- ^ Jebb, R. C. (1894). Sophocles The Plays and Fragments Part VI. The Electra. Vol. 6. Cambridge: London: C. J. Clay and Sons, Cambridge: University Press Warehouse, Ave Maria Lane. Glasgow: 363, Argyle Street. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell And Co. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. New York: Macmillan And Co. pp. Title. ark:/13960/t5v77xt8s.
- ^ Jebb (1894). Sophocles The Plays and Fragments Part VI. The Electra. p. 1.
- ^ Jebb (1894). Sophocles The Plays and Fragments Part VI. The Electra. pp. lviii.