{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0006.tlg012.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg012.local001","title":"Ἠλέκτρα","titleGreek":"Ἠλέκτρα","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Euripides","authorityName":"EURIPIDES Trag.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","editors":["Gilbert Murray"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Euripidis Fabulae","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1913","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/euripidisfabu02euri/page/n243","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Euripides. Ἠλέκτρα. ed. Gilbert Murray. Euripidis Fabulae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg012.local001","excerpt":"Αὐτουργός ὦ γῆς παλαιὸν ἄργος, Ἰνάχου ῥοαί, ὅθεν ποτʼ ἄρας ναυσὶ χιλίαις Ἄρη ἐς γῆν ἔπλευσε Τρῳάδʼ Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ. κτείνας δὲ τὸν κρατοῦντʼ ἐν Ἰλιάδι χθονὶ Πρίαμον, ἑλών τε Δαρδάνου κλεινὴν πόλιν, ἀφίκετʼ ἐς τόδʼ Ἄργος, ὑψηλῶν δʼ ἐπὶ ναῶν ἔθηκε σκῦλα πλεῖστα βαρβάρων. κἀκεῖ μὲν εὐτύχησεν· ἐν δὲ δώμασι θνῄσκει γυναικὸς πρὸς Κλυταιμήστρας δόλῳ καὶ τοῦ Θυέστου παιδὸς Αἰγίσθου χερί. χὣ μὲν παλαιὰ σκῆπτρα Ταντάλου λιπὼν ὄλωλεν, Αἴγισθος δὲ βασιλεύει χθονός, ἄλοχον ἐκείνου Τυνδαρίδα κόρην ἔχων. οὓς δʼ ἐν δόμοισιν ἔλιφʼ ὅτʼ ἐς Τροίαν ἔπλει, ἄρσενά τʼ Ὀρέστην θῆλύ τʼ Ἠλέκτρας θάλος, τὸν μὲν πατρὸς γεραιὸς ἐκκλέπτει τροφεὺς μέλλοντʼ Ὀρέστην χερὸς ὑπʼ Αἰγίσθου θανεῖν Στροφίῳ τʼ ἔδωκε Φωκέων ἐς γῆν τρέφειν· ἣ δʼ ἐν δόμοις ἔμεινεν Ἠλέκτρα πατρός, ταύτην ἐπειδὴ θαλερὸς εἶχʼ ἥβης χρόνος, μνηστῆρες ᾔτουν Ἑλλάδος πρῶτοι χθονός. δείσας δὲ μή τῳ παῖδʼ ἀριστέων τέκοι Ἀγαμέμνονος ποινάτορʼ, εἶχεν ἐν…","divisions":[{"label":"Episode 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-1"},{"label":"Choral 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-2"},{"label":"Episode 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-3"},{"label":"Choral 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-4"},{"label":"Episode 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-5"},{"label":"Choral 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-6"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-7"},{"label":"Choral 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-8"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-9"},{"label":"Choral 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-10"},{"label":"Episode 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/#tlg0006-tlg012-local001-11"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0006.tlg012.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006/tlg012/local001.json.gz"}}