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Ovid Met.

Frederic, Lord Leighton, “Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon,” 1869, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, no. 40.

A woman in flowing black robes, eyes closed, leans against a pillar, with an outdoor scene and pottery behind her

Why does Electra get so little attention? Reid groups this under “Orestes.”

The painting is used by Collard on the cover of his translation.

L. Ormond and R. Ormond, Lord Leighton. New Haven: Yale University Press. No. 189.

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 for The 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.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.