“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 ...

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

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 ...