Electra

Sophocles

Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 6: The Electra. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1894.

  1. How is it not right for me to grieve for my dead brother?
Orestes
  1. It is not proper for you to speak of him as you do.
Electra
  1. Am I so without rights in the dead?
Orestes
  1. You are without rights in nothing; but this burial is not your concern.