Sophocles' classic tragedy Electra, set in Argos a few years after the Trojan War, recounts the struggle for justice by Electra and her brother Orestes after the murder of their father Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and their stepfather Aegisthus. Electra's journey of revenge and justice is a powerful and moving story of family and loyalty, and her struggles to find peace and acceptance in a world of violence and chaos. With its timeless themes of loyalty, justice, and revenge, Electra is an essential classic of ancient Greek drama, and a must-read for anyone interested in the history of theatre.

Sophocles's play is not to be confused with the play by Euripides of the same name or Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy, both of which cover the same subject matter. This edition uses the translation of Scottish classicist Lewis Campbell (1830-1908) originally published in the 1900 collection of Sophocles extant works, entitled The Seven Plays in English Verse.

Sophocles (497-405 B.C.) is one of the most celebrated playwrights of the ancient Greek stage, his tragic works remaining mainstays of the stage and of academic study even over two millennia after his death. Among his most popular and important works are The Theban Plays(Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonnus, and Antigone), and his four other surviving plays (Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes).