The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Electra of Euripides, by EuripidesThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: The Electra of EuripidesAuthor: EuripidesRelease Date: December 10, 2004 [EBook #14322]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ELECTRA OF EURIPIDES ***Produced by Paul Murray, Charles Bidwell and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team.THEELECTRAOFEURIPIDESTRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BYGILBERT MURRAY, LL.D., D.LITT.REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDFORTY-SECOND THOUSANDLONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTDRUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1First Edition, November 1905Reprinted, November 1906 " February 1908 " March 1910 " December 1910 " February 1913 " April 1914 " June 1916 " November 1919 " April 1921 " January 1923 " May 1925 " August 1927 " January 1929(All rights reserved)PERFORMED AT THE COURT THEATRE, LONDON IN 1907Printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers Ltd., WokingIntroduction[1]The Electra of Euripides has the distinction of being, perhaps, the best abused, and, one might add, not the bestunderstood, of ancient tragedies. "A singular monument of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity;" "the ...
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