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Homer, The Iliad (ed. Samuel Butler) | 168 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Hesiod, Theogony | 48 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, Odyssey | 38 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, Iliad | 36 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Homer, The Odyssey (ed. Samuel Butler, Based on public domain edition, revised by Timothy Power and Gregory Nagy.) | 22 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristophanes, Birds (ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.) | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Electra
Oh! to reach that rock which hangs suspended midway between earth and heaven, that fragment from Olympus, which swings on chains of gold, so that I may utter my lament to Tantalus, my forefather, who begot the ancestors of my house. They saw infatuate ruin, the chase of winged steeds, when Pelops in four-horse chariot drove over the sea, hurling the body of murdered Myrtilus into the ocean swell, after his race near Geraestus' strand, foam-flecked from the tossing sea. From this came a woeful curse upon my house, brought to birth among the sheep by the son of Maia, when there appeared a baleful, baleful portent of a lamb with golden fleece, for Atreus, breeder of horses; from which Strife changed the course of the sun's winged chariot, fitting the westward path of the sky towards the single horse of Dawn; and Zeus diverted the career of the seven Pleiads into a new track and exchanged . . . death for death: both the banquet to which Thyestes gave his name, and the treac