Electra (Sophocles play)

This article is about the play by Sophocles. For other uses, see Electra (disambiguation).
Electra
Electra and Orestes by Alfred Church
Written bySophocles
ChorusWomen of Mycenae
CharactersPaedagogus
Orestes
Electra
Chrysothemis
Clytemnestra
Aegisthus
MutePylades
Handmaid of Clytemnestra
The Attendants of Orestes
Date premieredc. 420–414 BC
Place premieredCity Dionysia
Original languageAncient Greek
GenreGreek tragedy
SettingMycenae, before the palace of the Pelopidae

Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra, also called The Electra), is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. The original publication date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (406 BC) leads scholars to believe it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Richard Claverhouse Jebb dates it between 420 BC and 414 BC.

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