Electra - Opening

PROLOGUE

TUTOR: Son of Agamemnon,

commander once of our forces at Troy,

now you can look out with your own eyes

over all that you have so craved to see.

There lies Argos,

that ancient city for which you pined,

and the arena from which the gadfly drove poor Ino

daughter of Inachus.

Over there, Orestes,

is the Lycean marketplace of the wolf-killing god,

and left of it, the famous temple of Hera.

Just tell yourself we've actually arrived,

can see Mycenae -- so laden with gold --

and the palace of the Sons of Atreus -- so laden with death!