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Commentary: Several comments have been posted about Electra . Download: A 68k text-only version is available for download . Electra By Euripides Written 420-410 B.C.E Translated by E. P. Coleridge.
Euripides, Electra, line 1. card: Before the hut of the Peasant, in the country on the borders of Argolis. It is just before sunrise. The Peasant is discovered alone. Peasant. Peasant. O ancient plain of land, the streams of Inachus, from which king Agamemnon once mounted war on a thousand ships and sailed to the land of Troy.
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[Orestes, Electra, Pylades, and the Old Man make brief prayer together.] ORESTES. O Father Zeus, scatter my enemies. ELECTRA. Pity us—we’ve suffered pitifully. OLD MAN. Yes, have pity on them, your descendants. ELECTRA. And Hera, who rules Mycenae’s altars. ORESTES. Give us victory, if what we seek is just. OLD MAN
Euripides. Euripidis Fabulae, vol 2. Gilbert Murray. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1913. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Euripides’ “Elektra” - first produced circa 410 BCE. Translated by G. Theodoridis.
Th is volume presents the Ancient Greek text of Euripides’ Electra with a facing English translation. Th e Greek text is that of Gilbert Murray (1913), from the Oxford Classical Texts series, which is in the public domain and available as a pdf. Th is text has also been digitized by the Perseus Project (perseus.tufts.edu).
