CHORUS.
Farewell, farewell!—But he who can so fare,
And stumbleth not on mischief anywhere,
Blessed on earth is he!
NOTES TO THE ELECTRA
The chief characters in the play belong to one family, as is shown by the two genealogies:—
I.
TANTALUS
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Pelops
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Atreus Thyestes
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Agamemnon Menelaus Aegisthus
(=Clytemnestra) (=Helen) (=Clytemnestra)
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Iphigenia Electra Orestes
(Also, a sister of Agamemnon, name variously given, married Strophios, and was the mother of Pylades.)
II.
Tyndareus = Leda = Zeus
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Clytemnestra Castor Polydeuces Helen
P. 1, l. 10, Son of his father's foe.]—Both foe and brother. Atreus and
Thyestes became enemies after the theft of the Golden Lamb. See pp. 47 ff.