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    Euripides' Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) is a play probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC. It is unclear whether it was...
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    She is the main character in two Greek tragedies, Electra by Sophocles and Electra by Euripides. She is also the central figure in plays by Aeschylus...
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    grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides' play Electra: "they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city...
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    Electra, also Elektra or The Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities...
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  • princess of the Electric Eels from Sea Princesses Electra (1962 film), based on the Euripides play Electra, a 1996 Shannon Tweed film Elektra (2005 film)...
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  • Electra (Greek: Ηλέκτρα Ilektra) is a 1962 Greek film based on the play Electra, written by Euripides. It was directed by Michael Cacoyannis, serving...
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    In Greek mythology, Electra (/ɪˈlɛktrə/; Greek: Ἠλέκτρα 'amber') was one of the Pleiades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. She lived on the island...
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    the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Iphigenia, Iphianassa, Electra, Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. Legends make him the king of Mycenae...
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    of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes...
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    Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Kovacs, David, Euripides: Suppliant Women, Electra, Heracles, edited and translated by David Kovacs, Loeb Classical...
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    Orestes (section Euripides)
    the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis and Orestes, all of Euripides. He also appears in Euripides’ Andromache...
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    Orestes (play) (category Plays by Euripides)
    such as Electra by Euripides and Sophocles or The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus, and before events contained in plays like Andromache by Euripides. Orestes...
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    Bagdassarian 2019 The Misanthrope Molière Clément Hervieu-Léger 2019-20 Electra Euripides Ivo Van Hove 2022 Cellule 107 Robert Badinter Bernard Murat Le Mariage...
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  • designate any deity or demon who avenges wrongs committed by men. In Euripides' play Electra, Orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother...
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  • Elektra (2010 film) (category Films based on works by Euripides)
    Sophocles, Electra by Euripides, Oresteia by Aeschylus and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill (1931). Key to the film is the concept of the Electra complex;...
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  • (Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides. It is based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and was first produced in...
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    sons of Menelaus by either Helen, or slaves. A scholiast on Sophocles' Electra quotes Hesiod as saying that after Hermione, Helen also bore Menelaus a...
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  • for example, Electra says that without toil (πόνου... χωρὶς) nothing succeeds McDonald, Marianne (1978). Terms for Happiness in Euripides. Vandenhoeck...
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    role is the largest in any surviving Greek tragedy. In Mourning Becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, Clytemnestra...
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  • 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek playwrights Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. The play recounts the story of...
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  • Electra is a play by Rajiva Wijesinha. It is based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles, Electra by Euripides and The Flies by Jean-Paul...
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    other versions of the revenge of Orestes and Electra (the Electra of Sophocles and the Electra of Euripides), Pylades accompanies Orestes, but does not...
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    elderly men of Argos, whereas in Euripides' The Bacchae, they are a group of eastern bacchantes, and in Sophocles' Electra, the chorus represents the women...
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    5th century BC. Aegisthus also features heavily in the action of Euripides's Electra (c. 420 BC), although his character remains offstage. Aegisthus was...
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    Iphigeneia. Extant plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides on the tale of Orestes and Electra do not include her as a character. This is consistent...
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  • Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy Euripides, Bacchae Euripides, Electra Euripides, Medea Euripides, Orestes Homer, Iliad (complete and abridged)...
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    Greek: Τρῳάδες, romanized: Trōiades) is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE. Also translated as The Women of Troy, or as its...
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  • contemporanea. Venice: Edizioni Ca'Foscari. ISBN 978-88-6969-736-4. Euripides. Electra. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, Epitome II, 10–16. Sophocles. Fragments...
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  • one by Aeschylus (Agamemnon), two by Sophocles (Antigone, Electra), and seven by Euripides (Alcestis, Hecuba, Herakles, Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris...
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  • attributed to Aristotle "O black night, nurse of the golden eyes!" Electra in Euripides' Electra (c. 410 BC, line 54), in the translation by David Kovacs (1998)...
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