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chief characters in the play belong to one family, as is shown by the two genealogies:—



(Also, a sister of Agamemnon, name variously given, married Strophios, and was the mother of Pylades.)



P. I, l. 10, Son of his father's foe.]—Both foe and brother. Atreus and Thyestes became enemies after the theft of the Golden Lamb. See pp. 47 ff.

P. 2, l. 34, Must wed with me.]—In Aeschylus and Sophocles Electra is unmarried. This story of her peasant husband is found only in Euripides, but is