Electra

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  • [*](Dramatis PersonaePeasantElectraOrestesPylades, a mute characterChorusOld manMessengerClytemnestraDioskouroi)
    On the borders of Argolis.
    Peasant
    1. O ancient plain of land, the streams of Inachus, from which king Agamemnon once mounted war on a thousand ships and sailed to the land of Troy. After he had slain Priam, the ruler of Ilium,