Electra | 
pickElectra by Euripides is his version of the second part of Aeschylus‘s Oresteia. This not something I would read for leisure, it‘s not a fun read, and it‘s a slow burner. Just interesting to see Euripides‘s version of Electra.
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pickElectra by Euripides is his version of the second part of Aeschylus‘s Oresteia. This not something I would read for leisure, it‘s not a fun read, and it‘s a slow burner. Just interesting to see Euripides‘s version of Electra.
pickThis is a really interesting version of Electra by the youngest of the three tragedians (the other two being Aeschylus & Sophocles). It's hard not to psychologise these characters based on our modern tendencies but this Electra does *feel* modern, in a way: the twist here is that Electra has been married off to a farmer, & the matricide plays out like a 21st-century rural noir. How I can best describe Euripides: more human folly, less godliness.
