Electra
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text
- Extent:
- ~14,500 words · 69 passages
Cite this work
- APASophocles. (n.d.). Electra. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/sophocles/electra
- MLASophocles. "Electra." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/sophocles/electra.
- ChicagoSophocles. Electra. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/sophocles/electra.
What it is about
Electra: Orestes returns to kill his mother.
Context and history
The same story Aeschylus and Euripides also treated, which makes it unique: three Greek tragedies on one event can be compared. In Sophocles, Electra is the centre and the matricide goes unquestioned. English translation; the Greek is not in the catalogue.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
This text was modernized by Pierre Habel, so as to remove archaisms. It was reviewed by John Gibert, and revisions were made accordingly. 7/90 Jane Chaplin ed. Proofread text 9/19/90 EM ed. Final check of cardbreaks, tags, and linenumbers. 8/91 John Gilbert ed. Review and comment on modernization of translation. 8/91 EM ed. Put in Gibert's revisions, and revise DTDs and recheck texts. 6/95 Lisa Cerrato ed. Added missing speaker tags for cards which had none. 08-Feb-00 Anne Mahoney Markup $Log: soph.el_eng.xml,v $ Revision 1.3 2013-09-13 11:20:46 balmas01 reverting texts back to pre_cts_reorg tagged version Revision 1.1 2009-12-08 18:56:08 rsingh04 moved more xml files around based on copyright status Revision 1.3 2006/02/10 21:10:42 packel places/dates now actually tagged Revision 1.2 2005/08/01 16:30:23 packel removed stray item tags Revision 1.1 2005/07/25 15:03:00 packel Converted to XML Revision 1.9 2004/04/21 20:41:59 mimno added card 1s Revision 1.8 2003/07/01 22:18:08 yorkc Updated texts to TEI P4 and Perseus P4 extensions; minor cleanup (esp. character encodings and typos.) Revision 1.7 2000/03/04 20:35:17 dasmith Added separate funder entity to TEI header. Revision 1.6 2000/02/15 23:18:01 amahoney use n attribute on sp element to carry over the speaker name when the speech is interrupted by a card break; this also requires that the card break at the end come after the close of the sp, not within Revision 1.5 2000/02/08 22:43:32 amahoney br← Back to Sophocles