Electra
Sophocles
Sophocles the plays and fragments, Part 6: The Electra. Jebb, Richard Claverhouse, Sir, translator. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1894.
- O Zeus, how shall I name this news—fortunate? Or terrible, but beneficial? It is a bitter thing, when by my own misery I preserve my life.
- Why are you so despondent, lady, at my news?
- There is a terrible power in motherhood; a mother may be wronged, but she can feel no hate for those whom she bore.
- Then it seems that we have come in vain.