Greek Tragedy XXIV: Euripides’s Electra, or An Ancient Greek Rashoman?

Posted byTriumvir ClioPosted inGreek Tragedy, The Greeks

Each of our tragedians tackled the story of Orestes and Electra. In today’s episode, we get Euripides’s take, and as one should expect from the most depressing of the three, it is bloody.

Discussion Prompts
  1. Which version of this story do you like best? Why?
  2. What does Klytaemestra tells us about motherhood?
  3. AP Credit: Discuss nobility as depicted in this play.
  4. Why do you think Aegisthus has no speaking role in this play?

Published by Triumvir Clio

I have a BA in History and Classical Civilization from Loyola University Chicago and an MPH from Western Michigan University. I've been a geometry teacher, a religion teacher, a writing tutor. I'm a writer, a knitter, a dancer, a singer, an actor. And, yes, for fun I like to reread everything that was assigned while getting my classics degree.

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