Electra (Murray)

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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

THIRTEENTH THOUSAND

LONDON
GEORGE ALLEN & COMPANY, LTD.
44 & 45 RATHBONE PLACE
1913

Contents(not individually listed)

First Edition, November 1905
Reprinted, November 1906
Reprinted,„ February 1908
Reprinted,„ March 1910
Reprinted,„ December 1910
Reprinted,„ February 1913

Performed at
The Court Theatre, London
in 1907

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BY THE SAME AUTHOR

HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE.

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CARLYON SAHIB: A Play.

THE EXPLOITATION OF INFERIOR RACES, IN ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES: An Essay in 'Liberalism and the Empire.'

EURIPIDIS FABULAE: Brevi Adnotatione Critica Instructae, Vols. I. and II.

EURIPIDES: Hippolytus; Bacchae; Aristophanes' 'Frogs.' Translated into English verse.

EURIPIDES: The Trojan Women. Translated into English verse.

EURIPIDES: Electra. Translated into English verse.

EURIPIDES: Medea. Translated into English verse.

EURIPIDES: Iphigenia in Tauris. Translated into English Verse.

SOPHOCLES: Œdipus Tyrannus. Translated into English Verse.

THE RISE OF THE GREEK EPIC.

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