Other Electras: Aeschylus and Sophocles

About the lecture

In this module, we think about how the myth of the killing of Clytemnesta had been portrayed by other, earlier writers—particularly in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Sophocles’ Electra.

About the lecturer

Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham, and was formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. She was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Woldingham, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and was a governor of Woldingham School from 1990-93. She is the author of two books and a number of edited volumes and articles on Euripides and Plutarch, and frequently gives talks on classical subjects to schools and summer schools. From 2005-9 she was Chair of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) Classical Civilisation Committee.