EDITORS' NOTE 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). Th e English translation and accompanying notes are.. way from Mycenae. Electra, Orestes's sister, remained in Mycenae and was treated badly by her mot nd Clytaemnestra. Argos is the name of the land in which th city is located. The inhabitants are called Myce aeans or Argives. The names are often use Euripides's Electra was first performed in Athens c. 420 BC.
ELECTRA: ¡Oh, Luz sagrada, Aire que llenas tanto espacio como la tierra, cuántas veces habéis oído los gritos innumerables de mis lamentos y los golpes asestados a mi ensangrentado pecho, cuando se va la noche tenebrosa! y mi lecho odioso, en la morada miserable, sabe las largas vigilias que paso, llorando a mi desgraciado padre, a quien.. This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has.