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Electra or Elektra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα Ēlektra) is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles’ career.

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author
Sophocles
character in play
Orestes, Aegisthus, Chrysothemis, Clytemnestra, Electra, old man
chorus character in play
Women of Mycenae
genre
Tragedy
mute character in play
Pylades, attendants, handmaid
original language
Ancient Greek
picture
Electra
premiere place
Dionysia
setting of play
Mycenae before the palace of the Pelopidae

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