Electra (Euripides play)

Electra
Orestes, Electra and Hermes at Agamemnon's tomb. Side A of a Lucanian red-figure pelike, c. 380–370 BC.
Written by	Euripides
Chorus	Argive women
Characters	Farmer, husband of Electra Electra Orestes Old servant Messenger Clytemnestra Castor
Mute	Pylades Polydeuces Servants
Place premiered	City Dionysia
Original language	Ancient Greek
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Argos, at the house of Electra's husband

Euripides' Electra (Ancient Greek: Ἠλέκτρα, Ēlektra) is a play probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC. It is unclear whether it was first produced before or after Sophocles' version of the Electra story.