Like Euripides, Sophocles seems to be quite deliberately both subverting the dramatic conventions of the Oresteia and unraveling avant la lettre Aristotle's understanding of tragedy.

与欧里庇得斯一样， 索福克勒斯似乎是在蓄意颠覆《奥瑞斯忒亚》的戏剧惯例， 并阐明亚里士多德对悲剧的理解。