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Key facts
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Background
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