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Orestes and his companion Pylades have returned to Argos in secret. Hidden, he watches his sister Electra mourn at the tomb of their father, Agamemnon, who was slain by their mother Clytemnestra years before. (In fear, she sent Orestes away.) In accordance with Ancient Greek mourning rituals, Orestes left a lock of his hair at the tomb. Electra finds it, and feels stirrings of hope for the first time since her father’s death. The accompanying video is performed in Greek, with English subtitles.
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Electra: Yea, and my heart o'erflows with gall of grief, And I am pierced as with a cleaving dart; Like to the first drops after drought, my tears Fall down at will, a bitter bursting tide, As on this lock I gaze; I cannot deem That any Argive save Orestes' self Was ever lord thereof; nor, well I wot, Hath she, the murd'ress, shorn and laid this lock To mourn him
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