0467NOTGodsGoddesses

0766NOTOrestes_Wicar

Electra swoons at the moment she receives an urn in which she has been told are the mortal remains of her brother Orestes. The young man who hands the urn to her and gently sustains her in her distress is none other than Orestes himself. His boon companion Pylades lurks in Orestes' shadow urging him to keep the truth silent. Further in the background, Aegisthus, the tyrant who ursurped by murder the throne that Orestes should occupy, enters the scene. Aegisthus is speaking with Clytemnestra, the mother of Electra and Orestes. And behind Electra the shadows conceal the tomb housing the remains of Agamemnon, her murdered father.

It is the moment of Sophocles' Elektra 1115-16 (see link upper-left: "Alas, Alas! This is indeed, all clear. Here is my sorrow visible, before me."
After this, Sophocles has Elektra deliver a lengthy and intensely emotional lament that really underpins the anguish she feels at the loss of this brother, her only hope for mortal relief.