Question

In an emotional speech, this character laments, “No mother did that for you. No nurse. No slave. I.” while cradling a funeral urn. This woman’s cries of “OIMOI MOI” are left untranslated in Anne Carson’s version of a play in which this woman often argues with her sister Chrysothemis. (-5[1])This woman asks a chorus of slave-women if it is right to ask the gods for “one who will take life for life” before pouring wine onto a grave. (-5[2])Euripides parodied a scene (-5[2])in which a lock of hair and a footprint (10[1])lead this character to recognize a man who has secretly returned to Argos. This woman assists her brother in a plot to kill the king Aegisthus and his wife. For 10 points, name this woman who helps Orestes take revenge (10[1])on their mother Clytemnestra in The Libation Bearers from (10[1])Aeschylus’s Oresteia. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: Electra (The first two sentences refer to Sophocles’s Electra.)
<JK, European Literature>
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