Electra, daughter of the murdered Agamemnon, assumes her brother Orestes to be dead. The obligation to avenge Agamemnon's death belonged to Orestes, but when reports of his death reach Electra and her sister Chrysothemis they must decide whether that burden is now their own...

The Trachiniae is the chorus of Trachinian women. Heracles returns from war after a 15-month absence and brings captive women home with him, one of whom he is in love. Deianeira learns of his infidelity and schemes to use a love potion to win back his favor. She douses one of his robes with the potion and sends it to Hercles. Unfortunately, what Deianeria thought to be a potion is actually a deadly poison...

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Sophocles presents a moving story of suffering, abandonment, and betrayal. Philoctetes, a master archer, has been left for years to suffer on the deserted island Lemnos by Ulysses (Odysseus) because of a putrid snakebite wound. The Greeks return for him when it becomes apparent that victory over the Trojans depends on his participation...

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The confederation of Indian tribes known as the Iroquois, or Six Nations, included the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayugas, the Senecas, and the Tuscaroras. This treaty, concluded November 11, 1794, fixed the limits of the territory to be left in the possession of these tribes, who had fought against the colonies in the War of Independence...

Less than five months after the surrender of Cornwallis, the British Parliament passed an act to enable the king to make peace till July 1783. In the end of November, 1782, a provisional treaty was signed, the negotiations on behalf of Congress having been conducted by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens. On September 3, 1783, this treaty was made definitive in the form here printed, and the complete independence of the American States acknowledged by Great Britain...

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"This is the Great Story of the North, which should be to all our race what the Tale of Troy was to the Greeks - to all our race first, and afterwards, when the change of the world has made our race nothing more than a name of what has been - a story too - then should it be to those that come after us no less than the Tale of Troy has been to us." - Translator's Preface..