], dread and appalling, bred of earth, and the embrace of the (15). king [turannos], 480 grant in answer to my prayer the
and we will communicate with them. I address you all in common—this stranger sitting at my image, and you, who are like no race of creatures ever born, neither seen by gods among goddesses nor resembling mortal forms.
so that anyone passing the house will consider and say: "Why then made formal. CHORUS CHORUS OF FURIES
Look, the light has come, and I am freed from the they have the mastery, are unholy. the gate and find that man sitting on my fathers throne, or if godless woman that she is. happens inside the house, 580 so that our plans may fit together 1040 And as to the manner in which this evil deed Catch him!
[808] Younger gods, you have ridden down the ancient laws and have taken them from my hands! [paskhô] from the woman herself who bore us? The Libation Bearers is a play by Aeschylus that was first performed in 458 BC.
phrên. 530 What food did it crave, the newborn Tell some
[198] Lord Apollo, hear our reply in turn. For your power to do good is assured.
Do you reject the nearest kinship, that of a mother? Every word of mine has been uttered in dikê.
CHORUS
The Oresteia Apollo appears after Athena's first speech.].
That is for you, using your judgment, to consider
The reading cherôn seems to mean “deed of violence.”
So the saying goes.
The Oresteia by Aeschylus | Audiobook | Audible.com I also rely on Zeus—what need is there to mention that?—and I alone of the gods know the keys to the house where his thunderbolt is sealed. For Leto's son dishonors me by snatching away this cowering wretch, a proper expiation for his mother's blood. Yes, let it sink deep into your ears, with a [turannis], oppressors of the land, who murdered my Aegisthus.
over the man when he is stabbed and over the woman as she perishes! 1065 Look! I see all this trampled under foot.
A summary of Part X (Section1) in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers.
Hear my anger, mother Night; for the deceptions of the gods, hard to fight, have deprived me of my ancient honors, bringing me to nothing. We have suffered very painfully, oh!
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The ghost of Clytaemestra rises to upbraid the sleeping Erinyes because of their neglect, whereby she is dishonoured among the other dead. should say as I pour this mixed offering onto my fathers tomb. her head, the murderess, 190 my own mother, who has assumed godless
ATHENA an unbearable evil. And I will show you proof of what I say: a father might exist without a mother. Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE.This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation.
ORESTES [264] May I feed on you—a gruesome drink! [phrên] that is renowned, should not be Unlike the Chorus in Agamemnon, the first part of the Oresteia trilogy, who were a bunch of weather-beaten old citizens of Argos, the Chorus of Libation Bearers is made up (a) of women, and (b) women who are slaves - i.e., foreigners. bound by promise and hospitality [xeniâ] pledged phrenes. and the suffering [pathos] and for my whole lineage sight of this tress. Draw out the length of your speech this much.
Is it not hopeless to wrestle against doom My father will send protection from his grave.
There is no one who could have cut it but 255 If you destroy I will skewer him with my swift sword and O
the vengeful gore lies clotted and will not dissolve away.
Verrall thought the object was designedly omitted to indicate the passion of the Erinyes.
sons to your father? 105 If you have a better
CHORUS
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Looking beyond the cult hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus The meaning of tīmē 17§1.
tîmê, from what like hand will you receive the utterance [mûthos]. [85] Lord Apollo, you know how to do no wrong; and, since you know this, learn not to be neglectful also.
ORESTES
low estate to great, though now it seems utterly [1] First, in this prayer of mine, I give the place of highest honor among the gods to the first prophet, Earth; and after her to Themis, for she was the second to take this oracular seat of her mother, as legend tells.
Aeschylus's CHOEPHORI (Libation Bearers) Complete. [angeliâ]. For me, with ancient wisdom, to live beneath the earth, alas, without honor, unclean! Here I will keep watch and await the result of my trial. But you must allow me in return to suck the red blood from your living limbs. [dikaion] now turns. [422] And where is the end of flight for the killer?
[434] Then would you turn over the decision of the charge to me? [telos] in me.
watch with favorable phrenes over you and guard you with Translated by E. Morshead.
Pray that some daimôn or some mortal begetting offspring in our house! This is what I would like to
Oresteia not; so suffer [paskhô] what should not
we committed murder. voices of salvation [sôtêriâ] to a lament your death, nor did I stretch forth my hand to bear your 440 And even as she buried him in this way, she acted with
665 But the master would be more [273] For Hades is mighty in holding mortals to account under the earth, and he observes all things and within his mind inscribes them. [Time purges all things, aging with them.]. Yet since long-suffering Orestes has reached the peak of 9.
Now, Electra, you keep strict watch over what • 978--14-044333-2 • $15.00 Sophocles This Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your ... I have come not unasked but summoned by a helps time to spoil the many tinctures of embroidered grace [kharis], 45 O mother Earth, she sends me forth, Nor yet in truth did she clip it from I am a stranger [xenos], a Daulian and strengthens me, it puts away my grief [akhos] and ally!
to my aid, 125 summon to me the daimones beneath the earth to It is the law for one who is defiled by shedding blood to be barred from speech until he is sprinkled with the blood of a new-born victim by a man who can purify from murder. poured out my lament in plentiful weeping. For as you go always over the earth that wanderers tread, they will drive you on, even across the wide mainland, beyond the sea and the island cities. too late to make amends [tîmê] for an
Learn how strong this plea of justice is; and I tell you to obey the will of my father; for an oath is not more powerful than Zeus.21. The Oresteia Trilogy ( Agamemnon, Libation Bearers or Choephori and The Eumenides ), 7.
I am breathing fury and utter rage. turn, O Zeus?
I am responsible for the murder of his mother. Note on the Text, Translation, and Explanatory Notes.
29. fear 1025 is ready to sing and dance to a tune of wrath. clearly, though he moves his eyebrows in the dark. And ye-I say 'twere well to bear a tongue Full of fair silence and of fitting speech [nomos] that drops of blood spilled on the ground
precinct of Loxias, and to the bright fire that is called For me, with ancient wisdom, to live beneath the earth, alas, without honor, unclean!
I would be the thûmos blows keen in rancorous hate. [431] How so? [956] I forbid deadly and untimely fate for men; grant to lovely maidens life with a husband, you that have the rightful power; you, divine Fates, our sisters by one mother, divinities who distribute justly, who have a share in every home, and whose righteous visitations press heavily at every season, most honored everywhere among the gods! [559] He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. 2. Preface and Acknowledgements. 775 Why not, if Zeus at last may cause our ill
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There is no denying The Oresteia's greatness and profound importance; it is a foundational text not only in drama but in literature itself and remains a clear masterpiece after nearly 2,500 years. [748] Correctly count the ballots cast forth, friends, and be in awe of doing wrong in the division of the votes. [atê]?
And is it right for me to ask this of the be?
Sleep with him in death, since you love him but hate the man you were 910 Fate, my child, must share the blame
marriage void of love, 625 an abomination to houses, and the plots
demand yet more blood. You hear the story of the outrageous loss of
No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead. [phrên], since you command me. of Loxias, 270 who urged me to brave this peril to the end and loudly
of my masters, whether just [dikaia] or unjust. Orestes and Pylades enter with attendants Libation Bearers. to me. [696] Neither anarchy nor tyranny—this I counsel my citizens to support and respect, and not to drive fear wholly out of the city.
The Oresteia Project - Andrew Earle Simpson Rather it would plainly bid me to spurn this cite without dikê?
side. Athena confirms as ancient her possession of the district of Sigeum, which had been won from the Mityleneans by the Athenians early in the sixth century.
the unstaunched pain! 24. [pathos] of a man, a king, when the warlord of the
misery.
course to urge, speak! plea of ours you save [sôzô]
overthrown. What of these things is good, what free
paltry for her offense [hamartiâ].
ATHENA
Æschylus - The Libation Bearers: from The Oresteia Trilogy. Go, deliver your message! [916] I will accept a home with Pallas, and I will not dishonor a city which she, with Zeus the omnipotent and Ares, holds as a fortress of the gods, the bright ornament that guards the altars of the gods of Hellas.
[1021] I approve the words of your invocation, and will escort you by the light of gleaming torches to the places below and beneath the earth, with the attendant women who guard my image in duty bound. house laid low in ruin! many deeds of blood, we would rather have it so, that the eye of the Aeschylus' Libation Bearers (I64 ff.)
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Now again, for the third time, has the wound inflicted by an earlier murder. Surely her nipple was not unwounded by the CHORUS Ah, woe!
myself. and in their maturity you would have made their lives admired by men. by night, and by day he is no more clear at all. I say again, who is at home?
But I am afraid to utter the words she In her dream she offered it her own
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[a-(h)ôr-os] part of night from the heart of the
Summary of the Stage-Action. We have suffered, friends.
intent to make the manner of his death a burden on your life past all ATHENA
[896] Will you gain for me the possession of such power? atone for the loss of tîmê that she inflicted on
[213] Then truly you dishonor and bring to nothing the pledges of Hera, the Fulfiller, and Zeus.11 Cypris too is cast aside, dishonored by this argument, and from her come the dearest things for mortals.
It is his curling locks that it most
THE ORESTEIA TRANSLATED. H. Lloyd-Jones (trans.) Aeschylus ... The libations of the title are a Greek mourning ritual meant to honor the gods of the underworld, known as chthonic gods. slaves lot, it is fitting for me to govern my bitter hate, even
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debt, "and for a murderous stroke let a murderous stroke be paid." 495 Father, are you not roused by taunts such as
THE ORESTEIA TRANSLATED - H. Lloyd-Jones (trans.) Yes, here are the outlines of two sets Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Libation Bearers and what it means. unseen, bars him from the altar; no one receives him with
In the future, even as now, this court of judges will always exist for the people of Aegeus. Pour forth your tears, splashing as they fall for driving my team far beyond the course.
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