In the canon
Electra
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 409 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient greek
- Pages
- Pages 70
A woman keeps vigil at her father's grave year after year, refusing to mourn quietly while her mother and her mother's lover hold the throne of Mycenae. Sophocles staged this tragedy near the end of his life, around 409 BCE, returning to the house of Atreus that had already given the Greek stage its darkest stories.
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