List of Monologues from Ancient Greek Plays

This is a list of Monologues from Ancient Greek Plays

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#	Source Title	Author	Description
41	Oedipus the King	Sophocles	Oedipus curses his fate
42	Orestes	Euripides	Electra summarizes the background story of the play
43	Orestes	Euripides	Orestes justifies the murder of his mother to Tyndareus
44	Philoctetes	Sophocles	Philoctetes tells Neoptolemus his sad story
45	Philoctetes	Sophocles	Neoptolemus tells Philoctetes why he hates Odysseus
46	Philoctetes	Sophocles	Philoctetes scolds Neoptolemus for deceiving him
47	Prometheus Bound	Aeschylus	Io tells Prometheus her story
48	Prometheus Bound	Aeschylus	Prometheus tells the Chorus what he has done for humanity
49	Prometheus Bound	Aeschylus	Prometheus laments his fate
50	Seven Against Thebes	Aeschylus	Eteocles urges every man in the city to fight
51	The Bacchae	Euripides	Dionysus introduces the story
52	The Bacchae	Euripides	Tiresias prasises Dionysus
53	The Clouds	Aristophanes	Strepsiades worries about his financial troubles
54	The Cyclops	Euripides	Odysseus narrates to the Chorus how he escaped the Cyclop's cave
55	The Ecclesiazusae	Aristophanes	Praxagora tries to persuade assemblymen to give women the control of Athens
56	The Knights	Aristophanes	The sausage seller tells the Chorus how he won the approval of the senate
57	The Libation Bearers	Aeschylus	The nurse tells the Chorus that Orestes is dead
58	The Libation Bearers	Aeschylus	Electra pours the libations on her father's grave
59	The Libation Bearers	Aeschylus	Orestes mourns his father
60	The Persians	Aeschylus	Atossa expresses her anxiety regarding a dream that she had

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