Electra
by:
Euripides (author)
Moses Hadas (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780672601866 (0672601869)
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Greece,
Ancient,
Tragedy,
Mythology
I clearly remember reading this play for university and one of the things that the lecturer spoke about was how we have, from all three of the surviving tragedians, a extant plays that deals with the same subject, being the murder of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra by the two of her children, Orestes an...
The Electras (and the Oresteia) are always hard for me to read because of the extreme patriarchal moral.