0373ANCIENTElectra_Naples

0373AncientElectra_Naples

Aeschylus Choeph., 84-510
Sophocles Electra, passim
Euripides Electra, passim
Apollodorus Libr. Ep.2.169

Sculpture Group of Electra and Orestes, 1st-century BCE, Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Napoli, inv. 6006 = LIMC 7, s.v. "Orestes" no. 4, pl. 51.

The sculpture is attributed to one Stephanos, a sculptor in the school of Pasiteles. The group was found in the Macellum at Pozzuoli.

Although Ridgway is reluctant to attribute the identities to Orestes and Electra, she finds it rather simpler to call them such.

B.S. Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture, III (University of Wisconsin Press), p. 159.

Further bibliography cited by Ridgway: Smith 1991, 260, fig. 330; Moreno 1994, 746, fig. 912; Ridgway 1970, 135, 135, fig. 175 (also 1984a, 86, pl. 36).Also R. Bol 1999; w/ "basic bibliography" in note 1.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled forThe Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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