{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0006.tlg016.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg016.local001","title":"Ὀρέστης","titleGreek":"Ὀρέστης","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":"3","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/euripidisfabulae03euri_0/page/n155/","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Euripides. Ὀρέστης. ed. Gilbert Murray. Euripidis Fabulae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg016.local001","excerpt":"Ἠλέκτρα Οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν δεινὸν ὧδʼ εἰπεῖν ἔπος οὐδὲ πάθος οὐδὲ ξυμφορὰ θεήλατος, ἧς οὐκ ἂν ἄραιτʼ ἄχθος ἀνθρώπου φύσις. ὁ γὰρ μακάριος — κοὐκ ὀνειδίζω τύχας — Διὸς πεφυκώς, ὡς λέγουσι, Τάνταλος κορυφῆς ὑπερτέλλοντα δειμαίνων πέτρον ἀέρι ποτᾶται· καὶ τίνει ταύτην δίκην, ὡς μὲν λέγουσιν, ὅτι θεοῖς ἄνθρωπος ὢν κοινῆς τραπέζης ἀξίωμʼ ἔχων ἴσον, ἀκόλαστον ἔσχε γλῶσσαν, αἰσχίστην νόσον. οὗτος φυτεύει Πέλοπα, τοῦ δʼ Ἀτρεὺς ἔφυ, ᾧ στέμματα ξήνασʼ ἐπέκλωσεν θεὰ ἔριν, Θυέστῃ πόλεμον ὄντι συγγόνῳ θέσθαι. τί τἄρρητʼ ἀναμετρήσασθαί με δεῖ; ἔδαισε δʼ οὖν νιν τέκνʼ ἀποκτείνας Ἀτρεύς. Ἀτρέως δέ· τὰς γὰρ ἐν μέσῳ σιγῶ τύχας· ὁ κλεινός, εἰ δὴ κλεινός, Ἀγαμέμνων ἔφυ Μενέλεώς τε Κρήσσης μητρὸς Ἀερόπης ἄπο. γαμεῖ δʼ ὃ μὲν δὴ τὴν θεοῖς στυγουμένην Μενέλαος Ἑλένην, ὃ δὲ Κλυταιμήστρας λέχος ἐπίσημον εἰς Ἕλληνας Ἀγαμέμνων ἄναξ· ᾧ παρθένοι μὲν τρεῖς ἔφυμεν ἐκ μιᾶς, Χρυσόθεμις Ἰφιγένειά τʼ Ἠλέκτρα τʼ ἐγώ, ἄρσην…","divisions":[{"label":"Episode 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-1"},{"label":"Choral 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-2"},{"label":"Episode 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-3"},{"label":"Choral 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-4"},{"label":"Episode 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-5"},{"label":"Choral 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-6"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-7"},{"label":"Choral 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-8"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-9"},{"label":"Choral 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-10"},{"label":"Episode 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-11"},{"label":"Choral 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-12"},{"label":"Episode 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-13"},{"label":"Choral 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-14"},{"label":"Episode 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/#tlg0006-tlg016-local001-15"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0006.tlg016.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006/tlg016/local001.json.gz"}}