Electra
A series of related monologues by Sophocles and Euripides
Sponsored by the Napa Valley Education Foundation
A series of related monologues by Sophocles and Euripides
Sponsored by the Napa Valley Education Foundation
"Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, the play tells of a bitter struggle for justice by Electra and her brother Orestes for the murder of their father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus. When King Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War, his wife Clytemnestra kills him. Clytemnestra believes the murder was justified, since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia before the war. Electra rescued her younger brother Orestes from her mother by sending him [away]. The play begins years later when Orestes has returned as a grown man with a plot for revenge, as well as to claim the throne."