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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.
The origin of the word tragedy has been a matter of discussion from ancient times. The primary source of knowledge on the question is the Poetics of Aristotle.Aristotle was able to gather first-hand documentation from theater performance in Attica, which is inaccessible to scholars today.
A marble relief of a poet, perhaps Sophocles. Sophocles, the son of Sophillus, was a wealthy member of the rural deme (small community) of Hippeius Colonus in Attica, which was to become a setting for one of his plays; and he was probably born there, [2] [8] a few years before the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC: the exact year is unclear, but 497/6 is most likely.
Long, A. A. 1968. Language and Thought in Sophocles: A Study of Abstract Nouns and Poetic Technique. University of London Classical Studies 6. London: Athlone. Schein, S. L. 2006. "The Iliad and Odyssey in Sophocles’ Philoctetes: Generic Complexity and Ethical Ambiguity". In Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee. Edited by J. F ...
The original title of the play in the ancient Greek is Αἴας. Ajax is the romanized version, and Aias is the English transliteration from the original Greek. [2] Proper nouns in Ancient Greek have conventionally been romanized before entering the English language, but it has been common for translations since the end of the 20th century to use direct English transliterations of the ...
Sophocles used the relationship between sisters in two of his surviving tragedies Antigone (Antigone/Ismene) and Electra (Electra/Chrysothemis). Not only does the plot of Tereus hinge on recognition and reunion between Procne and Philomela, but also the all-female bond of sisterhood outweighs Procne's wife-husband and mother-son obligations.
The third act of 'Alien: Romulus' features a new villain, called The Offspring and played by 7'7'' former basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi.
An expert on Sophocles, Akiko Kiso was the first Japanese scholar to publish his works. [7] In 1984, Kiso published The Lost Sophocles , which reconsidered fragments of Sophocles' lost works. [ 8 ] It included reconstructions of Epigoni and Tereus .