Above: Brie Larson, Greg Hicks, and Patrick Vaill in Elektra at Duke of York's Theatre, London. It’s no use denying there’s a thrill that comes from things that are new, especially when we’re talking ...

including The Persians and The Oresteia. His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who wrote The Trojan Trilogy ...