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Elektra or Electra is a Greek tragic play written in 410 BC by Sophocles.

When King Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra, his wife Clytemnestra (who has also taken a lover) kills them. Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, hides her brother Orestes from her mother. Years later, he returns as a grown man to take revenge together with Elektra.


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