Orestes Monologue from Andromache: A Play in Three Acts

From Andromache: A Play in Three Acts by Gilbert Murray

male · anguished · 47 sec

He took on him a great feud, greater than he knew. For his father called from the dead for vengeance on the woman who had murdered him. And the gods called, too, and put voices always about him calling for blood. And then they betrayed him! (MOLOSSUS: Did his father betray him, too?) Nay, it may be that the voice was not his father's, after all. But the gods---- (PRIEST: See that your tongue offend not, stranger!) So be it. Well, in the end he recked not of the gods. He cared not how sore they hated him, and cared not if he lived or died.

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