Electra (Giraudoux play)
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Electra is a two-act play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. It was the first Giraudoux play to employ the staging of Louis Jouvet. Based on the classic myth of antiquity, Electra has
Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak as Electra in Warsaw, 1973
Aegisthus
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Aegisthus was a figure in Greek mythology. Aegisthus is known from two primary sources: the first is Homer's Odyssey, believed to have been first written down by Homer at the end of the 8th century BC
Electra (Giraudoux play)
…Clytemnestra. Queen of Argos; Mother of Electra and Orestes; Widow and murderer of Agamemnon. Aegisthus. Regent, he holds the power in the city of Argos. The play begins on the consequences of his ideas: Electra married the gardener, and thus deter the…
Aegisthus being murdered by Orestes and Pylades – The Louvre
Orestes kills Aegisthus on a second-century Roman sarcophagus, Pio Clementino Museum.
Pierre-Narcisse Guérin's Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, in which Aegisthus appears as a shadowy figure pushing Clytemnestra forward