Electra

Sophocles

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

  1. How can I ever raise the dead back to life?
Electra
  1. That is not what I meant; I was not born so foolish.
Chrysothemis
  1. What do you urge, then, of those things that I am capable of doing?
Electra
  1. That you be brave in executing what I recommend.