Electra (Sophocles)

For works with similar titles, see Electra.

English-language translations of
Ἠλέκτρα (Electra)
by Sophocles

Ἠλέκτρα (Ēlektra, Latin: Electra) is a tragedy by Sophocles and was first performed circa 410 BCE. The play recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

English-language translations of Ἠλέκτρα include:

Electra, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley (1849)
Electra, translated by E. H. Plumptre (1878)
Electra, translated by Richard Claverhouse Jebb [1904] (1917)
Electra, translated by Lewis Campbell (1906)

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Electra (Sophocles)

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