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Sophocles, Electra, 530-557
nan For this father of yours whom you constantly bewail alone of all the Greeks had the heart to sacrifice your own blood, your sister, to the gods—he, who, when sowing his seed, felt none of the pains I did when I gave birth. Come, tell me now, why, or to please whom
nan For this father of yours whom you constantly bewail alone of all the Greeks had the heart to sacrifice your own blood, your sister, to the gods—he, who, when sowing his seed, felt none of the pains I did when I gave birth. Come, tell me now, why, or to please whom
nan For this father of yours whom you constantly bewail alone of all the Greeks had the heart to sacrifice your own blood, your sister, to the gods—he, who, when sowing his seed, felt none of the pains I did when I gave birth. Come, tell me now, why, or to please whom
nan For this father of yours whom you constantly bewail alone of all the Greeks had the heart to sacrifice your own blood, your sister, to the gods—he, who, when sowing his seed, felt none of the pains I did when I gave birth. Come, tell me now, why, or to please whom
nan For this father of yours whom you constantly bewail alone of all the Greeks had the heart to sacrifice your own blood, your sister, to the gods—he, who, when sowing his seed, felt none of the pains I did when I gave birth. Come, tell me now, why, or to please whom
nan did he sacrifice her? To please the Argives, you will say? No, they had no right to kill my daughter. Or, if indeed it was for the sake of his brother Menelaus that he killed my child, was he not to pay me the penalty for that? Did Menelaus not have two children
nan did he sacrifice her? To please the Argives, you will say? No, they had no right to kill my daughter. Or, if indeed it was for the sake of his brother Menelaus that he killed my child, was he not to pay me the penalty for that? Did Menelaus not have two children
nan did he sacrifice her? To please the Argives, you will say? No, they had no right to kill my daughter. Or, if indeed it was for the sake of his brother Menelaus that he killed my child, was he not to pay me the penalty for that? Did Menelaus not have two children
nan did he sacrifice her? To please the Argives, you will say? No, they had no right to kill my daughter. Or, if indeed it was for the sake of his brother Menelaus that he killed my child, was he not to pay me the penalty for that? Did Menelaus not have two children
nan did he sacrifice her? To please the Argives, you will say? No, they had no right to kill my daughter. Or, if indeed it was for the sake of his brother Menelaus that he killed my child, was he not to pay me the penalty for that? Did Menelaus not have two children
nan who should in fairness have died instead of my daughter, since the father and mother from whom they were sprung had caused that voyage? Did Hades have some greater desire to feast on my offspring than on hers? Or had all love of the children of my womb been
nan who should in fairness have died instead of my daughter, since the father and mother from whom they were sprung had caused that voyage? Did Hades have some greater desire to feast on my offspring than on hers? Or had all love of the children of my womb been
nan who should in fairness have died instead of my daughter, since the father and mother from whom they were sprung had caused that voyage? Did Hades have some greater desire to feast on my offspring than on hers? Or had all love of the children of my womb been
nan who should in fairness have died instead of my daughter, since the father and mother from whom they were sprung had caused that voyage? Did Hades have some greater desire to feast on my offspring than on hers? Or had all love of the children of my womb been
nan who should in fairness have died instead of my daughter, since the father and mother from whom they were sprung had caused that voyage? Did Hades have some greater desire to feast on my offspring than on hers? Or had all love of the children of my womb been
nan abandoned by their accursed father, while love for the children of Menelaus filled him? Were these not the marks of a thoughtless and malicious parent? I think so, even if I differ from your judgment. So, too, would the dead girl speak, if she could find a voice. For myself, then, I view the past without
nan abandoned by their accursed father, while love for the children of Menelaus filled him? Were these not the marks of a thoughtless and malicious parent? I think so, even if I differ from your judgment. So, too, would the dead girl speak, if she could find a voice. For myself, then, I view the past without
nan abandoned by their accursed father, while love for the children of Menelaus filled him? Were these not the marks of a thoughtless and malicious parent? I think so, even if I differ from your judgment. So, too, would the dead girl speak, if she could find a voice. For myself, then, I view the past without
nan abandoned by their accursed father, while love for the children of Menelaus filled him? Were these not the marks of a thoughtless and malicious parent? I think so, even if I differ from your judgment. So, too, would the dead girl speak, if she could find a voice. For myself, then, I view the past without
nan abandoned by their accursed father, while love for the children of Menelaus filled him? Were these not the marks of a thoughtless and malicious parent? I think so, even if I differ from your judgment. So, too, would the dead girl speak, if she could find a voice. For myself, then, I view the past without
nan dismay; but if you think my attitude criminal, see that your own judgment is just before you blame your neighbor. Electra
nan dismay; but if you think my attitude criminal, see that your own judgment is just before you blame your neighbor. Electra
nan This time, at least, you cannot say that I first gave you cause for upset and thereby provoked such words from you. But, if you will permit me
nan This time, at least, you cannot say that I first gave you cause for upset and thereby provoked such words from you. But, if you will permit me
nan This time, at least, you cannot say that I first gave you cause for upset and thereby provoked such words from you. But, if you will permit me
nan CLYTEMNESTRA: Indeed, thou hast my leave; and didst thou always address me in such a tone, thou wouldst be heard without pain. ELECTRA: Then I will speak. Thou sayest that thou hast slain my father. What word could bring thee deeper shame than that, whether the deed was just or not? But I must tell thee that thy deed was not just; no, thou wert drawn on to it by the wooing of the base man who is now thy spouse. Ask the huntress Artemis what sin she punished when she stayed the frequent winds at Aulis; or I will tell thee; for we may not learn from her. My father- so I have heard- was once disporting himself in the grove of the goddess, when his footfall startled a dappled and antlered stag; he shot it, and chanced to utter a certain boast concerning its slaughter. Wroth thereat, the daughter of Leto detained the Greeks, that, in quittance for the wild creature's life, my father should yield up the life of his own child. Thus it befell that she was sacrificed; since the fleet had no other release, homeward or to Troy; and for that cause, under sore constraint and with sore reluctance, at last he slew her- not for the sake of Menelaus. But grant- for I will take thine own plea- grant that the motive of his deed was to benefit his brother;- was that a reason for his dying by thy hand? Under what law? See that, in making such a law for men, thou make not trouble and remorse for thyself; for, if we are to take blood for blood, thou wouldst be the first to die, didst thou meet with thy desert. But look if thy pretext is not false. For tell me, if thou wilt, wherefore thou art now doing the most shameless deeds of all,- dwelling as wife with that blood-guilty one, who first helped thee to slay my sire, and bearing children to him, while thou hast cast out the earlier-born, the stainless offspring of a stainless marriage. How can I praise these things? Or wilt thou say that this, too, is thy vengeance for thy daughter? Nay, shameful plea, if so thou plead; 'tis not well to wed an enemy for a daughter's sake. But indeed I may not even counsel thee,- who shriekest that I: revile my mother; and truly I think that to me thou art less a mother than mistress; so wretched is the life that I live, ever beset with miseries by thee and by thy partner. And that other, who scarce escaped thy hand, the hapless Orestes, is wearing out his ill-starred days in exile. Often hast thou charged me with rearing him to punish thy crime; and I would have done so, if I could, thou mayst be sure:-for that matter, denounce me to all, as disloyal, if thou wilt, or petulant, or impudent; for if I am accomplished in such ways, methinks I am no unworthy child of thee. LEADER OF THE CHORUS: I see that she breathes forth anger; but whether justice be with her, for this she seems to care no longer. CLYTEMNESTRA (to the CHORUS) And what manner of care do I need to use against her, who hath thus insulted a mother, and this at her ripe age? Thinkest thou not that she would go forward to any deed, without shame? ELECTRA: Now be assured that I do feel shame for this, though thou believe it not; I know that my behaviour is unseemly, and becomes me ill. But then the enmity on thy part, and thy treatment, compel me in mine own despite to do thus; for base deeds are taught by base. CLYTEMNESTRA: Thou brazen one! Truly I and my sayings and my deeds give thee too much matter for words.
nan I would gladly declare the truth, on behalf of my dead father and my sister alike. Clytaemnestra
nan Certainly I permit you; and if you always addressed me in such a tone, you would not be difficult to listen to. Electra
nan Certainly I permit you; and if you always addressed me in such a tone, you would not be difficult to listen to. Electra

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2. Euripides, Archelaus (Fragmenta Papyracea), 360.13 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
3. Euripides, Electra, 1025-1029, 1024 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Euripides, Hecuba, 1218-1233, 267-270, 1217 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 399-401, 410-419, 398 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Euripides, Hippolytus, 1022-1024, 1041-1044, 1021 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Sophocles, Antigone, 906-912, 905 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
8. Sophocles, Electra, 277-281, 341-344, 349-350, 365-368, 378-382, 417-423, 432-434, 438-463, 472-507, 513-529, 531-557, 560-575, 579-581, 585, 597-598, 608-609, 624-627, 634-660, 764-765, 770-771, 774-776, 786, 788-796, 817-822, 894-901, 190 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
9. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 989-999, 988 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aegisthus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
agamemnon, and clytemnestra	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
agamemnon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 196; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 416, 555
agon	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 501
agon scenes	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
agōn scene	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
andromache	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 212
antigone, heroism of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
antiphon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 212; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 555
athens	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 501
audience	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
characters, asking questions	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 70, 71
characters, have depth	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
characters, using argument from eikos	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 71
characters, using general statements or gnomai	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 67, 68, 71
characters, using logical argument	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 69, 70, 71
characters, using personal phrasing	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 67, 68
characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
chorus, the, and women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
chrysothemis, and electra	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
chrysothemis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 416
clytaemestra	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 416, 501, 555
clytemnestra	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 196
clytemnestra (sophocles), and agamemnon	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 674
clytemnestra (sophocles), and electra	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
clytemnestra (sophocles), and iphigeneia	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 674
creon, and antigone	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
creon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
defence	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
drama	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
education (and paideia)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 555
eikos	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 71
electra, agon	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
electra, clytemnestra as a character	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
electra, heroism of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
electra, name of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 674
electra	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 496, 497; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 416
electra (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 496, 497
episodes, of electra (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 496, 497
euripides, different from sophocles	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 68
euripides	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 212
hades	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 196
hecuba	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206, 212
heroism, of young women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
hierarchy, of social function, and women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
hypotheticals	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206, 212, 221
iliad	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 501
justice (dikè), in electra	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
lloyd, m.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 212
loyalty, of young women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
menelaus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 196
minos	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
murder	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 196, 206, 221
oedipus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
oedipus rex, creon as a character	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 71
orestes, and electra	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354
orestes, myth of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 674
orestes, origin of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 674
orestes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 416, 555
origin, of orestes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 674
pasiphae	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
past	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
pindar, on clytemnestra	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 674
polymestor	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 212
polyxena	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 196
revenge	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 196, 206, 221
ritual propriety	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 416
speaker'	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 212
spectators, make judgements about characters	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
stasima, of electra (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 496, 497
structure, of electra (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 496, 497
theseus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 206
women, young	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 354