An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides

by Anne Carson

KLYTAIMESTRA : Listen and keep listening: this I swear to you. By the Justice of my child, by Ruin, by Revenge— the three gods for whom I slaughtered him— hope does not walk the halls of fear in me so long as Aigisthos lights the fire on my hearth.