The Phoenician Women

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.

  1. This is the man who says he will give the Theban girls as captives of his spear to the women of Mycenae, to Lerna’s trident, and the waters of Amymone, dear to Poseidon, when he has them enslaved.
  2. Never, never, Lady Artemis, golden-haired child of Zeus, may I endure that slavery.
Old servant
  1. My child, go inside, and stay beneath the shelter of your maiden chamber, now that you have had
  2. your wish and seen all that you wanted; for a crowd of women is coming toward the royal palace, as confusion enters the city. Now women by nature love scandal; and if they get some slight handle for their gossip
  3. they exaggerate it, for women seem to have pleasure in saying nothing wholesome about each other. Exeunt Antigone and the old servant.
Chorus
  1. From the Tyrian swell of the sea I came, a choice offering for Loxias from the island of Phoenicia,