The ancient drama lays the foundation for poetic theater. Translations that preserve the tone and spirit of the works, embodying the spirit of the Tragic and the Sublime, become essential for the transmission of knowledge and the dissemination of ancient drama.
Stratis Paschalis translates Euripides' Electra, a work for which much has been written about its multiple differences and reflections, which simultaneously serve as an indicator of a new era that Electra explores and interprets.
He adapts the work to the present, connecting it with the past, despite the difficulties of our technological age, which dictates, among other things, the retreat of the sense of the tragic.
The archaic and classical tragic hero give way to the modern tragic anti-hero. The man of a civilization without living Myths and Gods.
