by Euripides · OUP Oxford · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198720942
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Electra is a Greek tragedy written by Euripides. The play tells the story of Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and her desire to avenge her father's death at the hands of her mother and her lover, Aegisthus. Electra lives in misery, married to a peasant, while waiting for the return of her brother Orestes to carry out the revenge. The play explores themes such as justice, revenge, suffering, and the human condition. This edition includes an introduction and commentary by J. D. Denniston.
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined: he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.
