Monday, January 13, 2025
How Not?
Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 122-123 (tr. Herbert Weir Smyth, slightly modified):
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ELECTRASee also William Allan, "The Ethics of Retaliatory Violence in Athenian Tragedy," Mnemosyne 66.4/5 (2013) 593-615 (at 602-603).
And is this a righteous thing for me to ask of Heaven?
CHORUS
How not? To requite an enemy evil for evil?
ΗΛΕΚΤΡΑ
καὶ ταῦτά μοὔστιν εὐσεβῆ θεῶν πάρα;
ΧΟΡΟΣ
πῶς δ᾿ οὔ, τὸν ἐχθρόν γ᾿ ἀνταμείβεσθαι κακοῖς;
