by Sófocles · Ediciones Clasicas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478826711
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«Electra» is the Greek tragedy by Sophocles, published by Ediciones Clásicas in paperback (61 pages, in Spanish).
Electra waits, amid laments, for the return of her brother Orestes to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon. Orestes arrives secretly in Mycenae with his friend Pylades and his old tutor, and they spread the false news of his own death before the recognition of the siblings and the vengeance against Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
The translation and notes are by Mariano Benavente y Barreda. The date of performance is estimated between 418 and 410 BC.
For those interested in classical Greek theatre, dramatic works, and literary and fiction texts.
Sophocles was an ancient Greek tragedian, one of three from whom at least two plays have 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. Sophocles wrote more than 120 plays, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens, which took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 13 competitions and was sometimes beaten by Sophocles; Euripides won four.
