by Eurípides · Ediciones Clasicas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478823307
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Electra is a Greek tragedy written by Euripides, which tells the story of Electra and her brother Orestes as they plan to avenge the death of their father, Agamemnon, at the hands of their mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus. This edition, published by Ediciones Clásicas in 1998, features the translation of Carmen Vilela and offers an accessible interpretation of this classic work of Greek literature.
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.
