Electra
- ISBN-10
- 0856685763
- ISBN-13
- 9780856685767
- Series
- Electra
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Authors
- Sophocles, Jennifer R. March
Description
The story of Electra is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians. In Sophocles' hands the focus is on Electra herself: her endurance and loyalty; her intense grief and her equally intense joy; and her final deliverance.
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