Elektra:

by Sophokles, Sophocles, Anne Carson (Translator)

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Published August 12, 2025

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[Jorge Esquivel · Rating 3 out of 5]

tengo yo una cosa con la rabia femenina que me vuelve loca

[lilac · Rating 4 out of 5]

All my love gone for nothing.
Days of my love, years of my love.
Into your child's finger I put the earth and the sky.
No mother did that for you.
No nurse.
No slave.
I. Your sister without letting go,
day after day, year after year, and you my own sweet child.

But death was a wind too strong for that.

gorgeous perfect and enormously elegiac. anne i love you soooo much. sophocles u too i guess… loved seeing brie in the play, had to read this after being blown away by that. i feel i have to see it now, one more time before it ends. <3

[Cara Patel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I watched a performance of this translation and I didn’t like the way it was done, but I loved the written text.

A well told tale of revenge and family politics. The chorus allowed a lot of the plot to be revealed in dialogue rather than lengthy monologues. Like the majority of ancient Greek plays, the majority of the action happened offstage, but that did not detract from the intrigue of the story for me. Overall a great read.