Electra had multiple siblings, but the most notable in myth and tragedy are Orestes, her brother, and Iphigenia, her sister.

“Visions of an Ancient Dreamer,” a pairing of “Orestes” and “Iphigenia and Tauris,” is the culmination of a yearlong collaboration between theater arts and classical studies. Students translated texts ...

The perpetuity of violence, too: Agamemnon killed Iphigenia, Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon, now Orestes has to kill Clytemnestra. But whether there’s much sense to be made, or indeed whether ...

his daughter Iphigenia, who is sacrificed by her father; a visceral and vengeful Klytemnestra; a fierce Electra hungering to avenge her father’s death; and an Orestes technically freed, but haunted by ...