Electra

1193 BCE             The Trojan War begins. Agamemnon sacrifies his daughter Iphigenia in order to ensure that                                   his  ships can sail.

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1183 BCE             The Trojan war ends. Agamemnon sails home with his concubine Cassandra.

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1182 BCE             Agmemnon returns to Mycenae and is killed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. Electra saves                                    Orestes and sends him away.

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1174 BCE             Orestes returns to Mycenae to avenge his fathers murder. He kills Clytemnestra and                                                Aegisthus.

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750-700? BCE      Homer lives and writes The Odyssey.

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525-456 BCE       Aeschylus lives and writes The Oresteia.

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496-406 BCE       Sophocles lives and writes Electra.

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1953 AD              Frank McGuinness is born.

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1997 AD              Frank McGuinness adapts Sophocles' Electra.

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