the greek shall inherit
[Enter a Greek youth, newly come from Argos. He stops within sight of the mansion, gazing up at it in awe.]
Is this a temple of Athene? I fear it must be, or else I am ruined. With the Furies at my back, I am come, Athena. Apollo's decree done; ugly justice done. My sister eased, wed to my dearest friend Pylades, and yet my mother's murder haunts me yet.
Matricide-- O, unnatural deed! Unnatural woman, too, who slayed my father and warmed her royal bed with the brother of her noble husband.
[He takes a deep breath, resettles the bag at his back, then starts forward again.]
Come, Orestes. To Athens.
ooc: From Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, what have you. Homer too, while we're at it.
Is this a temple of Athene? I fear it must be, or else I am ruined. With the Furies at my back, I am come, Athena. Apollo's decree done; ugly justice done. My sister eased, wed to my dearest friend Pylades, and yet my mother's murder haunts me yet.
Matricide-- O, unnatural deed! Unnatural woman, too, who slayed my father and warmed her royal bed with the brother of her noble husband.
[He takes a deep breath, resettles the bag at his back, then starts forward again.]
Come, Orestes. To Athens.
ooc: From Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, what have you. Homer too, while we're at it.