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Euripides: Electra

With Translation and Commentary by M. J. Cropp

King Agamemnon is long dead and his murderers rule at Argos. His son Orestes returns from exile to kill them his own mother Clytemnestra and her seducer Aegisthus. Thus he will release his sister Electra from oppression and reclaim his home and kingdom.This is the only episode from Greek legend treated in surviving plays by all three of the great Athenian tragedians of the fifth century B.C. Aeschylus in his Libation-bearers (part of the Oresteia trilogy), Sophocles and Euripides each in plays called Electra. Together these plays form a unique record of development and divergence in the content and style of tragedy. In Euripides' hands the story becomes a tragedy of all too human emotions and illusions. The revenge of Orestes is subsumed by Electra's hatred and resentment of her mother and the usurper. The killing of Clytemnestra by her children brings them not joy and restoration but revulsion, separation and renewed exile. Unwarned by the gods, they recognise too late the costs to them of executing Apollo's justice. Greek text with facing translation, commentary and notes. (Aris and Phillips 1988)

Table of contents

GENERAL EDITORS FOREWORD
GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES
I Ancient Theatre
II Greek Tragedy
III Euripides

INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRA
A view of the play
Dramatic and Poetic Design
Euripides and his predecess

GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
PARALELL GREEK TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY

Author Bibliographic

Professor Emeritus M. J. Cropp teaches Classics at the University of Calgary in Canada. He has edited Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris in the Classical Text series (2001) and Selected Fragmentary Plays with Christopher Collard and Kevin Lee (Volume 1, 1995)

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