The Oresteia

by Aeschylus · 458 BCE

E. D. A. Morshead's translation, 1881. 4 parts, about 34,675 words, 3 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

Zeus, who sets mortals on the way to understanding, has ordained the fixed law that wisdom comes by suffering.
Agamemnon, lines 176 to 178 · Read it in Agamemnon
The watchman on the roof says he has been lying there a year like a dog, learning the stars by heart, and that he would speak if the house could bear it, but an ox stands on his tongue.
Agamemnon, lines 1 to 39 · Read it in Agamemnon
Standing over the body, Clytemnestra says she will not deny the deed, describes the robe she threw over him as a net with no way out, and calls the third blow a thank-offering.
Agamemnon, lines 1372 to 1398 · Read it in Agamemnon
Apollo argues that the mother is not the parent of the child but the nurse of the sown seed, and offers Athena, born from no mother, as his proof.
The Eumenides, lines 657 to 666

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Public domain in the United States; the Project Gutenberg edition is free of restrictions under the Project Gutenberg License. Translated by E. D. A. Morshead. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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