Three pairs of pronunciation

[Dan Goncharoff]

Quite right. Electra is, IIRC, in mourning in Aeschylus's "The Libation
Bearers", however, and you would have found the word there (assuming, of
course, you don't favor the original Greek).

I am not as familiar with the knock-offs written by Sophocles and
Euripides...

DanG

On 6/28/2010 1:32 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> Some of us read more than we listen.  :-)  Thus I never confused
> "Mourning Becomes Electra" (which I've actually read), or "mourning
> dress" (having encountered the latter in descriptions of 18th-century
> funeral processions), or "mourning dove".
>
> P.S.  The play(s) are by Sophocles and Euripides (Aeschylus's trilogy
> "The Oresteia" does not have a part titled "Electra"), and do not
> have "mourning" in their titles.
>
> Joel
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