There are many themes to the story of Electra, and I was just wondering if anyone had come accross the notion that either play is considered 'paedaphilic'? Someone said this to me recently and I thought that it sounded pretty far out, by my thinking, but in keeping an open mind, I thought I would see what other people think about this being a 'theme' of the play?

Who on earth could have said a thing like that and whyeverfor?
In Sophocles' version, Elec(k)tra's brother, Orestes, returns from his hideaway town to take revenge upon his father's murder, by killing his mother and her lover and usurper of the throne. There's nothing in the whole play to suggest that anyone was even remotely thinking about pedophilia.

In Euripides' version, the only significant -but barely so- difference is that when Orestes returns, his sister was "notionally" married to a farmer, who knew his station and had not "touched her bed."
And, again, there's not the slightest hint of pedophilia.

That is, if you are using the word "pedophilia" to mean a sexual attraction towards children.
However, the term is often conflated with homosexuality, by highly ignorant people and someone, equally ignorant might have suggested to you that the friendship between Orestes and his childhood friend, Pylades is a sexual one. Nothing like this is, again, hinted in either of the plays.
Certainly not a "theme" in either of them!
Odd observation, that one. Never heard of it before.
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