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Category Archives: Aeschylus Eumenides
Eumenides 881-1047
Athena: Indeed, I shall not grow weary of arguing the good to you, so you may never say that by me, the younger, and by city-dwelling mortals, an ancient god was banished to go to her doom. But if it … Continue reading
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Eumenides 640-710 … 734-743 … 752-753
Chorus: By your argument, Zeus honours the doom of the father; but he himself fettered his elder father, Cronus. How is what you say not contrary to that? I call you as witnesses to hear this. Apollo: Oh you all-hateful … Continue reading
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Eumenides 470-507 … 566-639
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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Eumenides 321-346 … 397-469
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
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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Eumenides 94-197
Ghost of Clytemestra: Oh, you sleep do you? Hello! And what need is there of sleepers? And I, because of you, remain dishonoured here among the other corpses—those whom I killed their rebuke is not abandoned among the dead, and … Continue reading
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Eumenides 1-93
Pythia: First, I give in my prayer precedence to her of the gods first of oracles, Gaia; and after her Themis, who sits second only to her mother as prophet, so the goes the tale, and in the third allotment, … Continue reading
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