title: Electra (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
author:  Euripides 
description: Text: English (translation)<br> Original Language: Greek
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  # The Electra of Euripides
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Euripides
  
  
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  THE
  
  
  
  
  
  ELECTRA
  
  
  
  
  
  OF
  
  
  
  
  
  EURIPIDES
  
  
  
  
  
  TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE
  
  
  WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES BY
  
  
  
  
  
  GILBERT MURRAY, LL.D., D.LITT.
  
  
  
  
  
  REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
  
  
  
  
  
  FORTY-SECOND THOUSAND
  
  
  
  
  
  LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN &UNWIN LTD
  
  
  RUSKIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1
  
  
  
  
  
  PERFORMED AT
  
  
  THE COURT THEATRE, LONDON
  
  
  IN 1907
  
  
  
  
  
  _Printed in Great Britain by
  
  
    
  Unwin Brothers Ltd., Woking_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Introduction[1]
  
  
  
  
  
  The _Electra_ of Euripides has the distinction of being,
  
  
  perhaps, the best
  
  
  abused, and, one might add, not the best understood, of ancient
  
  
  tragedies.
  
  
  “A singular monument of poetical, or rather unpoetical perversity;"
  
  
  “the
  
  
  very worst of all his pieces;” 