The alcestis of euripides, translated into english rhyming verse, trans. Known even by the ancients as the philosopher of the stage, he is admired today for his. In the first act, electras husband has a monolog about electras innocence, her fathers death, and the misfortunate faith. Before the hut of the peasant, in the country on the borders of argolis. Sophocles and euripides versions of electra carry, among many similarities, a central theme of revenge. Mulryne, poetic structures in the electra of euripides. Online books about this author are available, as is a wikipedia article euripides. Electra and medea present enlightening psychological examinations of characters under extreme stress. Electra, a woman of many temperaments the literary rapport. A comparison of sophocles and euripides versions of electra.
Euripides bilingual anthology studies euripides in print. Ambiguous perhaps in the narrow context of the play for the chorus know nothing of apollos plans for orestes but meaningful in the wider context of the myth as it is known to all, and it is worth remembering that even electra is. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position. Electra euripides resumen completo, analisis y resena. Mark griffith is a professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies at the university of california, berkeley.
Euripides take on the vengeance of orestes 9 march 2012 i clearly remember reading this play for university and one of the things that the lecturer spoke about was how we have, from all three of the surviving tragedians, a extant plays that deals with the same subject, being the murder of aegisthus and clytaemnestra by the two of her children, orestes and electra. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. In his questioning attitude to traditional pieties, disconcerting shifts of sympathy, disturbingly eloquent evil characters and acute insight into destructive passion, he is also the most strikingly modern of ancient authors. Trained at cambridge, griffith is an enormously accomplished expert on the greek tragedies. Though princess of argos, electra is give in marriage to an old argive farmer to prevent her from bearing a son who might avenge agamemnons.
Most studied at harvard, oxford, and yale and is currently professor of ancient greek at the scuola normale superiore di pisa, and a. Elektra is a play probably written in the mid 410s bc, likely before 4 bc. Electra, a young woman, mourns her fate in this 34 minute monologue from euripides classic play, electra. Electra and orestes were shedding blood for blood because of their mothers sins but still everything their mother had put them through isnt a fair enough motive to kill. The characters, electra and orestes, must reunite to avenge their fathers murder. O argos, ancient land, and streams of inachus, whence on a day king agamemnon sailed to the realm of troy, carrying his warriors. Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue.
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