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Often appears with: war losses at home · the rise and fall of greatness · mourning and grief · gendered judgment of news · furies and coming revenge · fate, destiny, and necessity · divine punishment · death and mourning
Usually: verse (1) · grief and loss (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · lament (1) · resignation (1)
The chorus laments the homefront costs of the war—husbands lost and death’s ashes returned—then worries that the gods’ doom will bring vengeance against the house of Atreus despite the beacon’s joy.
sleeping sight Has seen its old delight, When thro’ the grasps of love that bid it stay It vanishes away On silent wings that roam adown the ways of sleep. Such are the sights, the sorrows fell, About our hearth—and worse, whereof I may not tell. But, all the wide town o’er, Each home that sent its master far away From Hellas’ shore, Feels the keen thrill of heart, the pang of loss, to-day. For, truth to say, …