Electra and Other Plays
Author: Euripides
Written during a period overshadowed by the fierce struggle for supremacy between Sparta and Euripides’ native Athens, these five plays are haunted by the shadow of war – and in particular its impact on women. In “Electra” the children of Agamemnon take bloody revenge on their mother for murdering their father after his return from Troy, and “Suppliant Women” depicts the g….Read More
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