Orestes Monologue from Andromache: A Play in Three Acts

From Andromache: A Play in Three Acts by Gilbert Murray

male · contemplative · 57 sec

This is the last story I heard of him, from a Chalcidian man who had been in Sicily. (HERMIONE: Had he gone so far away?) Beyond the end of Sicily to a kingdom of the Iberians. For he vowed that he would be like Paris, and win the most beautiful of all women for his wife; for, you must know, the gods had marred all the world for him, and made it all as ashes in his mouth, except beauty. For beauty is immortal, like themselves; and they cannot hurt it. So he sought and questioned where that woman might be; and men said she was queen of a land among the Iberians. (HERMIONE: Had he seen her himself?) Ay, long ago, they said.

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