The Oresteia, by Aeschylus, as Translated by Ted Hughes is quite ball-tightening

It occurs to me that in my post on Euripides, I used the word “electrifying”. This word refers to a quite specific physical sensation that I first noticed when I was reading a book of great speeches around the age of eighteen. It is a shiver that begins in the pit of my elbows and continues up, over my shoulders, and sometimes terminates somewhere in th…