Electra

by Sophocles

Overview

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, 'Electra' recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515416166
Publisher:	Dancing Unicorn Books
Publication date:	01/29/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	66
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Hanna Roisman is the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Classics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Her special interests are Homeric epic, Greek and Roman tragedy and Classical literature and modern film.

Editorial Reviews

Roisman's book can serve as a very useful introduction for a newcomer to Classics and Greek tragedy and is well suited for a non-language student without ancient Greek. Also a beginning ancient Greek language student will find Roisman's translation helpful in many instances for working through Sophocles' original because of the faithfulness of her translation. . . .

- Elke Steinmeyer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.04.34

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