Electra (Murray Translation) by EURIPIDES read by Expatriate | Full Audio Book
Electra (Murray Translation) by EURIPIDES (484 BCE - 406 BCE), translated by Gilbert MURRAY (1866 - 1957)
Genre(s): Tragedy
Read by: Expatriate in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Introduction
00:09:18 - 02 - Part I
00:39:57 - 03 - Part II
01:10:46 - 04 - Part III
Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemnon. Married platonically to a good-hearted but poverty-stricken old peasant, she longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her wreak vengeance. Orestes finally returns and together they carry out their fated work, but find the result to be as tragically meaningless as the lust for vengeance had been poisonous. Strikingly different from Sophocles, who wrote his ’Electra’ with full sympathy for the divine ordinance of revenge, Euripides squarely blames the God Apollo for putting an evil commandment on the shoulders of the siblings. He also shows th
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