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Euripides, Electra, 33-40

̓Αγαμέμνονος παῖς, χρυσὸν εἶφ' ὃς ἂν κτάνῃ

but she feared that she would be despised for the murder of her children. So then, for these reasons, Aegisthus devised such a scheme: he promised gold to anyone who should kill Agamemnon’s son, who had left the country as an exile, while Electra he gave

ἡμῖν δὲ δὴ δίδωσιν ̓Ηλέκτραν ἔχειν

δάμαρτα, πατέρων μὲν Μυκηναίων ἄπο

in marriage to me. My ancestors were Mycenaeans; in that respect at least I am not to blame. My family was noble in race but poor in money—which is the ruin of good birth. He gave her to a powerless man so that his fear might lose its power.

γεγῶσιν — οὐ δὴ τοῦτό γ' ἐξελέγχομαι:

λαμπροὶ γὰρ ἐς γένος γε, χρημάτων δὲ δὴ

πένητες, ἔνθεν ηὑγένει' ἀπόλλυται —

ὡς ἀσθενεῖ δοὺς ἀσθενῆ λάβοι φόβον.

εἰ γάρ νιν ἔσχεν ἀξίωμ' ἔχων ἀνήρ

For if some man of high position got her, he would have roused the sleeping blood of Agamemnon and judgment would have come at some time to Aegisthus. But I have never (Cypris knows this too) dishonored her in bed; she is still a virgin indeed.

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

3 results

1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 229-247, 228 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

228. λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρῴους

228. Prayings and callings q type=

2. Euripides, Electra, 1287, 132-134, 164-166, 25, 253-259, 26, 260-261, 27-32, 322, 34-40, 404-405, 41-48, 481, 49-53, 572, 58, 600, 645, 67, 677, 68, 683, 69-70, 778-843, 1286 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1286. καὶ τὸν λόγῳ σὸν πενθερὸν κομιζέτω

3. Euripides, Helen, 1667-1677, 1666 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1666. ὅταν δὲ κάμψῃς καὶ τελευτήσῃς βίον

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aegisthus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
aeschylus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 1028
aesthetics of embodiment	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 754
agamemnon, oresteia	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 927
argos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
battle	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
burial	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
characters, minor	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914, 927
electra	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 754, 914, 927
epic	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
funerary practice	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
gender, women	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
greece	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
hera	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 754
hermes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914
hippolytus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914
hosios	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
hubris, of tantalus and his descendants	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
justice, dikaios opposite of mysaros in euripides	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
kakos, thinking evil thoughts/badly	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
kyriakou, p. xxii	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914, 927
libation	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
material culture	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
matricide, and exile of the matricides	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
miastor	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
military	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
monuments	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
orestes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 927; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in euripides electra	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
phronein hosia, in euripides electra	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
poetry	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
ritual	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
roisman, h.m.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 1028
sacrifice, animal, aegisthus in euripides electra'	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
slavery	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
sophocles, electra	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 927
sophocles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 1028
tragedy	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
visual art	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
war	Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
worman, n.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 754