Elettra e Oreste: iconografi a e ricezione di un mito tragico

This paper re-examines a significant episode in the ancient reception of the Orestes and Electra myth, focusing on the marble group signed by Menelaus, a pupil of Stephanos. Historically identified as the children of Agamemnon – a tradition dating back to Johann Joachim Winckelmann – the group is analyzed through a cross-reading of literary and iconographic sources. The study retraces the primary interpretative proposals, confirming the work’s chronological and cultural placement in the transition from the late Republic to the early Imperial age.