Is there any defence for matricide? A juridical reading of Sophocles' Electra

Based on an analysis of Electra by Sophocles, it is proposed that the central concern of the dramatist is not the matricide of Clytemnestra itself. Sophocles invites the audience to reflect, as though they were the jury in a law court, on the legality of the actions of Electra. The play is thus a contribution to the debate on Justice in Greek society initiated almost two centuries previously.

Michael Lloyd. Sophocles: Electra. Duckworth, London, 2005, 160 pp.

Fil: Moretti, María Inés. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Michael Lloyd. Sophocles: Electra. Duckworth, London, 2005, 160 pp.

Fil: Moretti, María Inés. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.

Reflexoes gerais e agón em Electra de Sófocles

El propósito de este trabajo es analizar las reflexiones generales y agón en Electra de Sófocles. La pieza se analiza basada en la teoría retórico-argumentativa, cuyo argumento se define como una declaración de que legitima a una conclusión. Objetos de investigación son los argumentos éticos, patéticos y discusión lógica de los personajes presentes en Electra y Crisótemis (vv.871-1057)

Reflexoes gerais e agón em Electra de Sófocles

El propósito de este trabajo es analizar las reflexiones generales y agón en Electra de Sófocles. La pieza se analiza basada en la teoría retórico-argumentativa, cuyo argumento se define como una declaración de que legitima a una conclusión. Objetos de investigación son los argumentos éticos, patéticos y discusión lógica de los personajes presentes en Electra y Crisótemis (vv.871-1057)

Reflexoes gerais e agón em Electra de Sófocles

El propósito de este trabajo es analizar las reflexiones generales y agón en Electra de Sófocles. La pieza se analiza basada en la teoría retórico-argumentativa, cuyo argumento se define como una declaración de que legitima a una conclusión. Objetos de investigación son los argumentos éticos, patéticos y discusión lógica de los personajes presentes en Electra y Crisótemis (vv.871-1057)

A vingança de Agamenom; tragédia de Anrrique Ayres Victoria, comforme a impressão de 1555,

With reproduction of original title: Tragedia da vingança que foy feita sobre a morte del rey Agamenom. Agora nouamente tirada de grego em Sophocles [Electra] ... Agora segunda vez impressa e emmendada e anhadida pello mesmo autor.

Book of illustrations. Ancient tragedy.

Cover-title.

The Electra of Sophocles : with notes : for the use of colleges in the United States /

Mode of access: Internet.

Oedipus tyrannus, Electra, and Antigone of Sophocles. The Oxford translation. Revised edition, with notes. With an introduction by Edward Brooks, jr.

Photocopy.

Mourning becomes Electra d'Eugene O'Neill: Èsquil i Plató per a crear un drama fosc?

The fundamental debt of E. O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra to Aeschylus, and to a lesser degree to Sophocles and Euripides, has been always recognised but, according to the author's hypothesis, O'Neill might have taken advantage of the Platonic image of the cave in order to magnify his both Greek and American drama. It is certainly a risky hypothesis that stricto sensu cannot be proved, but it is also reader's right to evaluate the plausibility and the possible dramatic benefit derived from such a reading. Besides indicating to what degree some of the essential themes of Platonic philosophy concerning darkness, light or the flight from the prison of the material world are not extraneous to O'Neill's work, the author proves he was aware of the Platonic image of the cave thanks to its capital importance in the work of some of his intellectual mentors such as F. Nietzsche or Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, the most significant aim of the author's article is to emphasize both the dramatic benefits and the logical reflections derived, as said before, from reading little by little O'Neill's drama bearing in mind the above mentioned Platonic parameter.

Mourning becomes Electra de Eugene O'Neill: ¿Esquilo y la caverna de Platón para crear un drama oscuro?

The fundamental debt of E. O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra to Aeschylus, and to a lesser degree to Sophocles and Euripides, has been always recognised but, according to the author's hypothesis, O'Neill might have taken advantage of the Platonic image of the cave in order to magnify his both Greek and American drama. It is certainly a risky hypothesis that stricto sensu cannot be proved, but it is also reader's right to evaluate the plausibility and the possible dramatic benefit derived from such a reading. Besides indicating to what degree some of the essential themes of Platonic philosophy concerning darkness, light or the flight from the prison of the material world are not extraneous to O'Neill's work, the author proves he was aware of the Platonic image of the cave thanks to its capital importance in the work of some of his intellectual mentors such as F. Nietzsche or Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, the most significant aim of the author's article is to emphasize both the dramatic benefits and the logical reflections derived, as said before, from reading little by little O'Neill's drama bearing in mind the above mentioned Platonic parameter.

Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O’Neill: Aeschylus and Plato’s Cave to Create a Dark Drama

The fundamental debt of E. O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra to Aeschylus, and to a lesser degree to Sophocles and Euripides, has been always recognised but, according to the author’s hypothesis, O’Neill might have taken advantage of the Platonic image of the cave in order to magnify his both Greek and American drama. It is certainly a risky hypothesis that stricto sensu cannot be proved, but it is also reader’s right to evaluate the plausibility and the possible dramatic benefit derived from such a reading. Besides indicating to what degree some of the essential themes of Platonic philosophy concerning darkness, light or the flight from the prison of the material world are not extraneous to O’Neill’s work, the author proves he was aware of the Platonic image of the cave thanks to its capital importance in the work of some of his intellectual mentors such as F. Nietzsche or Oscar Wilde. Nevertheless, the most significant aim of the author’s article is to emphasize both the dramatic benefits and the logical reflections derived, as said before, from reading little by little O’Neill’s drama bearing in mind the above mentioned Platonic parameter.

Attic tragedies : Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus.

Oedipus, Antigone and Electra are translated by Robert Whitelaw, Medea and Hippolytus by Arthur S. Way. The name of the translator of Prometheus bound is not given.