Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. Yes it is, if these are the remains of Orestes that I hold.
Orestes
  1. They are not his, except inasmuch as fiction alone contrives to make them so.He gently takes the urn from her.
Electra
  1. And where is that sufferer’s tomb?
Orestes
  1. There is none; the living have no tomb.