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  2. Electra (Euripides play) - Wikipedia

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    Euripides' Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) is a tragedy probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC.A version of the myth of the house of Atreus, Euripides' play reworks important aspects of the story found in Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy (especially the second play, Libation Bearers) and also in Sophocles' Electra, although the relative dating of Euripides' and ...

  3. Category:Plays by Euripides - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Electra (Euripides play) H. Hecuba (play) Helen (play) ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  4. Electra (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Electra - Wikipedia

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    Electra, play by Euripides; Orestes, play by Euripides; Electra, a lost play by Quintus Tullius Cicero of which nothing is known but the name and that it was "a tragedy in the Greek style" Electra (1901) a play by Benito Pérez Galdós; Elektra, a 1903 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, based on the Sophocles play

  6. Orestes (play) - Wikipedia

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    Euripides, Orestes, Oxford, MS. Barocci 120, fol. 32r (early 14th century) Aeschylus' play Eumenides, the third part of his surviving Oresteia trilogy, enshrines the trial and acquittal of Orestes within the foundation of Athens itself, as a moment when legal deliberation surpassed blood vengeance as a means of resolution.

  7. Ion (play) - Wikipedia

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    Ion (/ ˈ aɪ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἴων, Iōn) is an ancient Greek play by Euripides, thought to have been written between 414 and 412 BC.It follows the orphan Ion, a young and willing servant in Apollo's temple, as he inadvertently discovers his biological origins.

  8. Elektra (opera) - Wikipedia

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    The composer in 1911. While based on ancient Greek mythology and Sophocles' tragedy Electra, the opera is highly modernist and expressionist in style. Hofmannsthal's and Strauss's adaptation of the story focuses tightly on Elektra, thoroughly developing her character by single-mindedly expressing her emotions and psychology as she meets with other characters, mostly one at a time.

  9. Anne Carson bibliography - Wikipedia

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    by Euripides: With five prefaces, and a text by Carson ("Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra, by Euripides") [28] An Oresteia Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles, Orestes by Euripides: 2009 Agamemnon by Aeschylus Electra by Sophocles Orestes by Euripides: With four introductions and a note by Carson [29] Euripides, Iphigenia Among the ...