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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. Electra (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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    Electra (Euripides play), a play by Euripides, probably in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC, that tells a very different version of this same basic story from Sophocles. Electra (Sophocles play) The story was also told at the end of the lost epic Nostoi (also known as Returns or Returns of the Greeks) The events are also brought up in ...

  4. Euripides - Wikipedia

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    Euripides has been hailed as a great lyric poet. [66] In Medea, for example, he composed for his city, Athens, "the noblest of her songs of praise". [67] His lyrical skills are not just confined to individual poems: "A play of Euripides is a musical whole...one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones."

  5. Electra - Wikipedia

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    Electra, play by Sophocles; 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. Category:Plays by Euripides - Wikipedia

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    Electra (Euripides play) H. Hecuba (play) Helen (play) Herakles (Euripides) Hippolytus (play) Hippolytus Veiled; Hypsipyle (play) I. Ion (play) Iphigenia in Aulis;

  7. Electra (1962 film) - Wikipedia

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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 as the first installment of his "Greek tragedy" trilogy, followed by The Trojan Women in 1971 and Iphigenia in 1977.

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  9. Category:Plays based on classical mythology - Wikipedia

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    Agamemnon (Thomson play) Aithiopes; Ajax (play) Akrisios; Alcestis (play) Alcmaeon in Corinth; Alcmaeon in Psophis; Amphitryon (Dryden play) Amphitryon (Molière play) Amphitryon (Plautus play) Amphitryon 38; Andromache (play) Andromeda (play) Antigone (Euripides play) Antigone (Sophocles play) Archelaus (play)