Ορέστης
Orestes is a devastating portrait of what happens to a man who obeys the gods and destroys his mother. After the Trojan War, Orestes returns home to find his father Agamemnon murdered by Clytemnestra and her lover. Apollo demands vengeance. But can matricide ever be just? Haunted by the Furies of his mother's blood, Orestes lies in torment while his sister Electra tends to him, both of them trapped in a house that has become a prison. When Menelaus arrives, hope seems near - but the play builds toward one of Greek tragedy's most explosive confrontations, forcing us to ask: what happens when the gods command the unforgivable? Euripides strips away the heroic distance from this myth and examines the raw psychology of guilt, loyalty, and the terrible price of answering divine calls to violence. This is tragedy not as spectacle but as wound.
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“When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.””
— Euripides
“Be happy, beloved face of my great friend. For us that is impossible, but you can be-we dead lack any source of delight””
— Euripides
“How far you are from understandingwhat my intentions are. May fruitful earthrefuse to take my blood and the bright skymy spirit, if I ever betray you,if I let myself go free and leave you.I did the murder, too. I don't deny it.””
— Euripides
“Not to me. Not when I'm looking after you””
— Euripides
“Of people my own age, friends and relatives, you are my favorite. You're all those things to me””
— Euripides
“O human nature, what a grievous curse thou art in this world! And what salvation, too, to those who have a goodly heritage therein.””
— Euripides
“Somos esclavos de los dioses, sean lo que sean los dioses.””
— Euripides
“La gran prosperidad no es estable entre los mortales. La divinidad, al zarandearla, la rasga de arriba abajo como la vela de una nave rápida y la sumerge bajo penas terribles como bajo las rugientes olas mortíferas de alta mar.””
— Euripides
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