Monthly Archives: February 2013

Eumenides 470-507 … 566-639

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Athena: The matter is too great, if any mortal thinks to sit in judgement on this; nor is it established custom for me to decide trials of murder that being down quick anger; especially as you, having performed everything required … Continue reading →

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Hekaba 850-904

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Agamemnon: For you and your child and thy fortune, I do, Hekaba, have pity and for your suppliant hands, and I want, on account of the gods and also of justice that unholy host to pay penalty to you, would … Continue reading →

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Hekaba 626-849

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Agamemnon: Hekaba, Why do you delay to come for covering your child in the grave, the very reason for which Talthybios announced to me that none of the Argeians were to touch your maiden? We therefore do not permit, nor … Continue reading →

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Hekaba 657-725

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Handmaiden: Ladies, where ever is Hekaba, she all-sorrowful, she who defeats the whole male and female seed in misfortunes? No one shall dispute her crown. Choros: What now, oh wretched girl, of your ill-tongued cry? For your distressing proclamations never … Continue reading →

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Hekaba 629-656

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Choros: For me calamity must, for me misery must be, when first the wood of Mt. Ida, the pine-wood did Alexandros cut down, to ferry upon the swell of the sea for the bed of Helena, the most beautiful that … Continue reading →

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Hekaba 518-628

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Talthybios: Twice the tears you long to reap from me, my lady, in pity for your daughter; for both now, by harsh comment, you wet this eye, and before the grave where she was killed. I was standing nearby the … Continue reading →

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Eumenides 321-346 … 397-469

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Chorus: Mother who bore me, Oh mother Night, for the unseeing and the sighted I am retribution, hear me: for the son of Leta dishonours me, he takes for himself this man, our hare, the matricide an expiation of murder … Continue reading →

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Eumenides 198-253 … 276-320

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Chorus: Lord Apollo, hear me back in turn. You yourself are not made an accessory of these things, but rather but you acted from first to last, thus wholly culpable. Apollo: How so? Lay out your argument to this extent. … Continue reading →

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Hekaba 438-517

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Hekaba: Woe is me, I swoon; my limbs are loosed. Oh daughter, clasp your mother, stretch out your hands, give them. Do not leave me childless. I’ve been utterly destroyed, my loved ones… Even so the Lakainan sister to the … Continue reading →

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Hekaba 389-437

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Mark Mueller

Odysseus: Not you, aged lady, to die did Achilleus’s phantom demand of the Achaians, but rather this girl. Hekaba: Kill me then, you, but do it alongside my daughter and a draught of blood twice as great shall come to … Continue reading →

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