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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. Electra - Wikipedia

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    Electra is the eponymous narrator of her story in the book 'Electra' by Henry Treece. (Bodley Head, 1963: Sphere Books., 1968). (Bodley Head, 1963: Sphere Books., 1968). Electra on Azalea Path is the title of Sylvia Plath 's poem published in 1959, in reference to the Electra Complex

  5. Sophocles - Wikipedia

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    Sophocles [a] (c. 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC) [2] was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least one play has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those of Aeschylus and earlier than, or contemporary with, those of Euripides.

  6. Euripides - Wikipedia

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    Plutarch also provides the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, 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 which produced such men" (Life of Lysander ...

  7. List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays - Wikipedia

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    Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Ancient Greek tragedies were most often based upon myths from the oral traditions, exploring human nature, fate, and the intervention of the gods. They evoke catharsis in the audience, a process through which the audience experiences pity and fear, and through that emotional engagement, purges these emotions.

  8. 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. As such, the fact ...

  9. Anne Carson bibliography - Wikipedia

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    Electra by Sophocles Orestes by Euripides: With four introductions and a note by Carson [29] Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians: 2014 Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides: With introduction by Glenn W. Most and Mark Griffith [30] Sophokles, Antigone: 2015 Antigone by Sophocles: With a note by Carson [31] Euripides, Bakkhai: The Bacchae by ...

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