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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
“thou high Throne Above the World, whoe'er thou art, unknown And hard of surmise, Chain of Things that be, Or Reason of our Reason; God, to thee I lift my praise”
The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, Menelaus and Helen scene, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905)
Hearing that Menelaus means to punish Helen, Hecuba utters a philosophical prayer that startles him with its strangeness.
Citation: "thou high Throne Above the World, whoe'er thou art, unknown And hard of surmise, Chain of Things that be, Or Reason of our Reason; God, to thee I lift my praise" — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, Menelaus and Helen scene, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q3)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
