Euripides V Study Guide & Notes

Euripides V Plot Summary

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Euripides V is a collection of three Greek tragedies by Euripides. Electra tells the story of Electra and her brother Orestes revenging their father's death by killing his murderers: their mother Clytemnestra and her new husband Aegisthus. The Phoenician Women tells the story of Oedipus's sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, who battle over control of Thebes, killing each other. The Bacchae details Dionysus's revenge on the city of Thebes for refusing to worship him as a god.

In Electra, after Agamemnon, Electra and Orestes' father, returned victorious from Troy, his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus murdered him. Now, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus rule the land. Electra has been given to a kindly, but poor, farmer as a wife, and Orestes is exiled. Orestes returns, and with the help of Agamemnon's old servant, finds Aegisthus alone with a few servants, ready to make a sacrifice of a bull. Orestes, while butchering the...
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