WorkSophocles

Electra

Electra (c. 420 BCE) Inferred

Sophocles (c. 496–406 BCE) · c. 420 BCE

InferredNamed as 'the Greek Electra'; Electra is the heroine of Sophocles' play of that name. Named as 'the Greek Electra' — the heroine of Sophocles' Electra. Named in a list of women who aged nobly (Michelangelo's Sibyl, Saint Teresa, Tasso's Leonora, and Electra).

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“or the Greek Electra, as an old maid”

Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.

Inferred Named as 'the Greek Electra'; Electra is the heroine of Sophocles' play of that name. Named as 'the Greek Electra' — the heroine of Sophocles' Electra. Named in a list of women who aged nobly (Michelangelo's Sibyl, Saint Teresa, Tasso's Leonora, and Electra).