The myth of the family of Atreus was portrayed by each of the three great dramatists of the Golden Age of Athens: Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. Euripides's play Iphigenia in Aulis recounts the moving story of Agamemnon's attempt to sacrifice his daughter. Euripides's other extant plays on the House of Atreus are Orestes and Electra.
Sophocles also wrote an Electra (c. 409 B.C.), although this play assumes Iphigema's death and focuses on.....
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