Abstract

Theseus, on entering, immediately demands of the Chorus an explanation of the in the house and of the lack of proper welcome for the returning master. His first thought is that something may have happened to the aged Pittheus. No, say the Chorus, the has nothing to do with the old: it is the young whose death causes pain. Naturally, Theseus now leaps to the conclusion that it is his children whose ‘life is pillaged’ : no, he is told, it is his wife.