Sophocles : Four Tragedies Online

Electra lives in mourning and squalor, waiting years for her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father, Agamemnon, who was murdered by their mother, Clytemnestra.

Sophocles doesn’t offer easy answers. He doesn’t tell you that being "good" will save you. Instead, he shows that the world is complex, the gods are often silent, and our greatest strengths—like Oedipus’ intellect or Antigone’s loyalty—can also be our undoing. Sophocles : four tragedies

Often called the "perfect tragedy," this is the ultimate "no-win" scenario. Electra lives in mourning and squalor, waiting years