The welcome committee was ready: Agamemnon and Cassandra were slaughtered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover. In Emily Wilson’s brilliant 2018 translation of “The Odyssey,” Agamemnon ...

Brie Larson takes the lead as Elektra, the hot-headed, vengeful daughter of Clytemnestra and the murdered Agamemnon, who stalks around the stage in modern clothing with a microphone, separating ...