Perseus · Tufts
All Greek and Roman Materials
Collections: Classics · Papyri · Renaissance · London · California · Upper Midwest · Chesapeake · Boyle · Tufts History
Configure display · Help · Tools · Copyright · FAQ · Publications · Collaborations · Support Perseus
Classics:
Classics collection contents
About the Classics collection
Greek Hist. Overview
Art & Arch. Catalogs

Other Tools & Lexica
Plot:
  • sites on this page
  • sites in this document
    Contents:
  • Episode 1
  • Choral 1
  • Episode 2
  • Choral 2
  • Episode 3
  • Choral 3
  • Episode 4
  • Choral 4
  • Episode 5
  • Choral 5
  • Episode 6
  • Choral 6
  • Episode 7
    		•

    Euripides, Heracles (ed. E. P. Coleridge)

    Lycus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Gilbert Murray) | English (ed. E. P. Coleridge)
    Your current position in the text is marked in red. Click anywhere on the line to jump to another position.
    line=15 line=50 line=75 line=90 line=95 line=110 line=138 line=160 line=185 line=220 line=250 line=300 line=316 line=335 line=348 line=359 line=380 line=390 line=403 line=410 line=425 line=436 line=445 line=470 line=497 line=515 line=530 line=534 line=540 line=540 line=545 line=550 line=555 line=580 line=590 line=605 line=610 line=615 line=620 line=637 line=655 line=675 line=695 line=705 line=710 line=715 line=725 line=735 line=751 line=763 line=772 line=785 line=805 line=822 line=845 line=855 line=875 line=885 line=890 line=900 line=905 line=910 line=915 line=935 line=975 line=1010 line=1025 line=1050 line=1055 line=1060 line=1065 line=1070 line=1080 line=1090 line=1110 line=1115 line=1120 line=1120 line=1125 line=1131 line=1135 line=1135 line=1140 line=1160 line=1178 line=1180 line=1185 line=1190 line=1200 line=1214 line=1230 line=1230 line=1235 line=1240 line=1245 line=1250 line=1255 line=1290 line=1310 line=1340 line=1380 line=1395 line=1395 line=1400 line=1405 line=1410 line=1415 line=1415 line=1420

    Table of ContentsGo to Previous Next

    Chorus

    --You sons of Earth, whom Ares once sowed, when from the dragon's ravening jaw he had torn the teeth, up with your staves, on which you lean your hands, [255]  and dash out this villain's brains! a fellow who, without even being a Theban, but a foreigner, lords it shamefully over the younger men; but my master shall you never be to your joy.

    --Nor shall you reap the harvest of all my toil; [260]  Go back to where you came from, in your insolence. For never while I live, shall you slay these sons of Heracles; not so deep beneath the earth has their father disappeared from his children's ken.

    --You are in possession of this land which you have ruined, [265]  while he, its benefactor, has missed his just reward.

    --And yet do I take too much upon myself because I help those I love after their death, when most they need a friend?

    --Ah! right hand, how you desire to wield the spear, but your weakness is a death-blow to your desire. [270]  For then I would have stopped you calling me slave, and I would have governed Thebes with credit. In which you now rejoice; for a city sick with dissension and evil counsels does not think aright; otherwise it would never have accepted you as its master.

    Preferred URL for linking to this page: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Eur.+Her.+252

    The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.

    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Heracles, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
    OCLC: 42737896


    Previous Next