Classical Reception
by Anastasia Bakogianni · Anastasia Bakogianni
Monograph published by the Institute of Classical Studies (London) tracing Electra through the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, then through case studies of her reception in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century works. Shows how one tragic heroine is reinterpreted across eras.
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