Medea: We women are the most unfortunate creatures.

With an excess of wealth it is required for us to buy a husband and take for our bodies a master A man when hes tiored of the company in his home goes out of the house Let no one think me a weak one, feeble, a stay at home one who can hurt my enemies for the lives of such are most remembered Zeus in Olympus is the overseer of many doings. Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement and so it happens in this story

Oedipus: Whoever ha was that killed the king may readily wish to dispatch me with his murderous hand; so helping the dead king I help myself Upon the murderer I invoke this curse whether he is one man or one of many may he wear out his life in misery and miserable doom! If with my knowledge he lives at my hearth I pray that I myself may feel my curse Teiresias: Alas how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man thats wise! It was a prophets task and plainly you had no such gift of prophecy from birds or otherwise from any god to glean a word of knowledge Jocasta: why should man fear since chance is all in all for him and he can clearly foreknow nothing. Best to live lightly as one can unthinkingly Light of the sun let me look upon you no more after today! I who first saw the light bred of a match accursed and accursed in my living with them I lived with cursed in my killing. It was Apollo fireds Apollo that brought this bitterness my sorrows to completion but the hand that struck me was none but my own Creon: Do not seek to be master in everything for the things you mastered did not follow you throughout your life

Agamemnon: My fate is angry if I disobey these but angry if I slaughter what of these things goes without disaster? How shall I fail my ships and lose my faith of battle? For them to urge such sacrifice it is right. May all be well. Chorus: the future you shall know when it has come. Before then, forget it. It is grief too soon given. All will come clear in the next dawns sunlight. Clyt: May he find a wife within his house as true as on the day he left her Crimson path in all things else my hearts unsleeping care shall act with the gods aid to set aright what fate ordained Do not try in a womans ways to make me delicate nor as if I were some Asiatic bow down to earth with wide mouth cry out to me discordant is the murmur at such treading down of lovely things Call that man only blest who has in sweet tranquility brought his life to close. If I could only act as such my hope is good. Cass: See there see there! Keep from his mate the bull caught in the folded webs entanglement she pinions him and with the black horn strikes. And he crumples in the watered bath. Aegisthus: exiles feed on empty dreams of hope. I know it. I was one.

Libation Bearers: O bright beloved presence you bring back four lives to me. To call you father is constraint of fact and all the love I could have borne my mother turns your way If you destroy these fledgelings of a father who gave you sacrifice and high honor from what hand like his shall you be given the sacred feast which is your right? Where is the end? Where shall the fury of fate be stilled to sleep be done with? (Chorus)

Eumenides: Orestes: This is my case. Decide if it be right or wrong. I am in your hands. Where my fate falls, I shall accept. For Aegeus population this forevermore shall be the ground where justices dliberate. Here is the hill of ares There shall be peace forever between these people of Pallas and their guests. Zeus the all seeing met with Destiny to confirm it. Singing all follow our footsteps.