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subject	book bibliographic info
aegeus	Boeghold (2022), When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature. 24 Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 67 Giusti (2018), Disclosure and Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries, 124, 128 Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 52, 57, 58 Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, 25 Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 173, 178 Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 276
aegeus, aethra, and	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 550
aegeus, and medea	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 84, 166, 167
aegeus, characters, tragic/mythical	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 263
aegeus, euripides	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 319
aegeus, euripides, dramas by	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 173, 177
aegeus, general theseus, and	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 550
aegeus, hero of athens	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 34
aegeus, medea, oath with	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 84, 166, 167
aegeus, mythological figures, excluding olympian gods and their offspring	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 603
aegeus, sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 550, 551, 568

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8 validated results for "aegeus"

1. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus • Aigeus

Found in books: Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 113; Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 57

2. Euripides, Medea, 663-823, 1329, 1389-1390 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus • Aegeus and Medea • Aigeus • Medea, oath with Aegeus • Mythological figures (excluding Olympian gods and their offspring), Aegeus

Found in books: Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 57; Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 113; Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 52; Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 8; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 91; Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 603; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 24, 25, 28, 29, 84, 166

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663 Μήδεια, χαῖρε: τοῦδε γὰρ προοίμιον ⁶⁶⁴ κάλλιον οὐδεὶς οἶδε προσφωνεῖν φίλους. ⁶⁶⁵ ὦ χαῖρε καὶ σύ, παῖ σοφοῦ Πανδίονος,' "⁶⁶⁶ Αἰγεῦ. πόθεν γῆς τῆσδ' ἐπιστρωφᾷ πέδον;" '⁶⁶⁷ Φοίβου παλαιὸν ἐκλιπὼν χρηστήριον.' "⁶⁶⁸ τί δ' ὀμφαλὸν γῆς θεσπιῳδὸν ἐστάλης;" "⁶⁶⁹ παίδων ἐρευνῶν σπέρμ' ὅπως γένοιτό μοι." "⁶⁷⁰ πρὸς θεῶν, ἄπαις γὰρ δεῦρ' ἀεὶ τείνεις βίον;" '⁶⁷¹ ἄπαιδές ἐσμεν δαίμονός τινος τύχῃ. ⁶⁷² δάμαρτος οὔσης ἢ λέχους ἄπειρος ὤν; ⁶⁷³ οὐκ ἐσμὲν εὐνῆς ἄζυγες γαμηλίου. ⁶⁷⁴ τί δῆτα Φοῖβος εἶπέ σοι παίδων πέρι;' "⁶⁷⁵ σοφώτερ' ἢ κατ' ἄνδρα συμβαλεῖν ἔπη." '⁶⁷⁶ θέμις μὲν ἡμᾶς χρησμὸν εἰδέναι θεοῦ;' "⁶⁷⁷ μάλιστ', ἐπεί τοι καὶ σοφῆς δεῖται φρενός." "⁶⁷⁸ τί δῆτ' ἔχρησε; λέξον, εἰ θέμις κλύειν." '⁶⁷⁹ ἀσκοῦ με τὸν προύχοντα μὴ λῦσαι πόδα...' "⁶⁸⁰ πρὶν ἂν τί δράσῃς ἢ τίν' ἐξίκῃ χθόνα;" '⁶⁸¹ πρὶν ἂν πατρῴαν αὖθις ἑστίαν μόλω.' "⁶⁸² σὺ δ' ὡς τί χρῄζων τήνδε ναυστολεῖς χθόνα;" '⁶⁸³ Πιτθεύς τις ἔστι, γῆς ἄναξ Τροζηνίας. ⁶⁸⁴ παῖς, ὡς λέγουσι, Πέλοπος, εὐσεβέστατος. ⁶⁸⁵ τούτῳ θεοῦ μάντευμα κοινῶσαι θέλω. ⁶⁸⁶ σοφὸς γὰρ ἁνὴρ καὶ τρίβων τὰ τοιάδε. ⁶⁸⁷ κἀμοί γε πάντων φίλτατος δορυξένων.' "⁶⁸⁸ ἀλλ' εὐτυχοίης καὶ τύχοις ὅσων ἐρᾷς." "⁶⁸⁹ τί γὰρ σὸν ὄμμα χρώς τε συντέτηχ' ὅδε;" '⁶⁹⁰ Αἰγεῦ, κάκιστός ἐστί μοι πάντων πόσις. ⁶⁹¹ τί φῄς; σαφῶς μοι σὰς φράσον δυσθυμίας.' "⁶⁹² ἀδικεῖ μ' ̓Ιάσων οὐδὲν ἐξ ἐμοῦ παθών." '⁶⁹³ τί χρῆμα δράσας; φράζε μοι σαφέστερον.' "⁶⁹⁴ γυναῖκ' ἐφ' ἡμῖν δεσπότιν δόμων ἔχει." "⁶⁹⁵ οὔ που τετόλμηκ' ἔργον αἴσχιστον τόδε;" "⁶⁹⁶ σάφ' ἴσθ': ἄτιμοι δ' ἐσμὲν οἱ πρὸ τοῦ φίλοι." '⁶⁹⁷ πότερον ἐρασθεὶς ἢ σὸν ἐχθαίρων λέχος;' "⁶⁹⁸ μέγαν γ' ἔρωτα: πιστὸς οὐκ ἔφυ φίλοις." '⁶⁹⁹ ἴτω νυν, εἴπερ, ὡς λέγεις, ἐστὶν κακός. ⁷⁰⁰ ἀνδρῶν τυράννων κῆδος ἠράσθη λαβεῖν.' "⁷⁰¹ δίδωσι δ' αὐτῷ τίς; πέραινέ μοι λόγον." '⁷⁰² Κρέων, ὃς ἄρχει τῆσδε γῆς Κορινθίας.' "⁷⁰³ συγγνωστὰ μέντἄρ' ἦν σε λυπεῖσθαι, γύναι." "⁷⁰⁴ ὄλωλα: καὶ πρός γ' ἐξελαύνομαι χθονός." "⁷⁰⁵ πρὸς τοῦ; τόδ' ἄλλο καινὸν αὖ λέγεις κακόν." "⁷⁰⁶ Κρέων μ' ἐλαύνει φυγάδα γῆς Κορινθίας." "⁷⁰⁷ ἐᾷ δ' ̓Ιάσων; οὐδὲ ταῦτ' ἐπῄνεσα." '⁷⁰⁸ λόγῳ μὲν οὐχί, καρτερεῖν δὲ βούλεται.' "⁷⁰⁹ ἀλλ' ἄντομαί σε τῆσδε πρὸς γενειάδος" '⁷¹⁰ γονάτων τε τῶν σῶν ἱκεσία τε γίγνομαι, ⁷¹¹ οἴκτιρον οἴκτιρόν με τὴν δυσδαίμονα' "⁷¹² καὶ μή μ' ἔρημον ἐκπεσοῦσαν εἰσίδῃς," '⁷¹³ δέξαι δὲ χώρᾳ καὶ δόμοις ἐφέστιον. ⁷¹⁴ οὕτως ἔρως σοὶ πρὸς θεῶν τελεσφόρος ⁷¹⁵ γένοιτο παίδων καὐτὸς ὄλβιος θάνοις.' "⁷¹⁶ εὕρημα δ' οὐκ οἶσθ' οἷον ηὕρηκας τόδε:" "⁷¹⁷ παύσω γέ ς' ὄντ' ἄπαιδα καὶ παίδων γονὰς" "⁷¹⁸ σπεῖραί σε θήσω: τοιάδ' οἶδα φάρμακα." '⁷¹⁹ πολλῶν ἕκατι τήνδε σοι δοῦναι χάριν, ⁷²⁰ γύναι, πρόθυμός εἰμι, πρῶτα μὲν θεῶν, ⁷²¹ ἔπειτα παίδων ὧν ἐπαγγέλλῃ γονάς: ⁷²² ἐς τοῦτο γὰρ δὴ φροῦδός εἰμι πᾶς ἐγώ.' "⁷²³ οὕτω δ' ἔχει μοι: σοῦ μὲν ἐλθούσης χθόνα," '⁷²⁴ πειράσομαί σου προξενεῖν δίκαιος ὤν. ⁷²⁵ τοσόνδε μέντοι σοι προσημαίνω, γύναι:' "⁷²⁶ ἐκ τῆσδε μὲν γῆς οὔ ς' ἄγειν βουλήσομαι," "⁷²⁷ αὐτὴ δ' ἐάνπερ εἰς ἐμοὺς ἔλθῃς δόμους," '⁷²⁸ μενεῖς ἄσυλος κοὔ σε μὴ μεθῶ τινι.' "⁷²⁹ ἐκ τῆσδε δ' αὐτὴ γῆς ἀπαλλάσσου πόδα:" '⁷³⁰ ἀναίτιος γὰρ καὶ ξένοις εἶναι θέλω.' "⁷³¹ ἔσται τάδ': ἀλλὰ πίστις εἰ γένοιτό μοι" "⁷³² τούτων, ἔχοιμ' ἂν πάντα πρὸς σέθεν καλῶς." '⁷³³ μῶν οὐ πέποιθας; ἢ τί σοι τὸ δυσχερές;' "⁷³⁴ πέποιθα: Πελίου δ' ἐχθρός ἐστί μοι δόμος" "⁷³⁵ Κρέων τε. τούτοις δ' ὁρκίοισι μὲν ζυγεὶς" "⁷³⁶ ἄγουσιν οὐ μεθεῖ' ἂν ἐκ γαίας ἐμέ:" '⁷³⁷ λόγοις δὲ συμβὰς καὶ θεῶν ἀνώμοτος' "⁷³⁸ φίλος γένοι' ἂν κἀπικηρυκεύμασιν" "⁷³⁹ τάχ' ἂν πίθοιο: τἀμὰ μὲν γὰρ ἀσθενῆ," "⁷⁴⁰ τοῖς δ' ὄλβος ἐστὶ καὶ δόμος τυραννικός." '⁷⁴¹ πολλὴν ἔδειξας ἐν λόγοις προμηθίαν:' "⁷⁴² ἀλλ', εἰ δοκεῖ σοι, δρᾶν τάδ' οὐκ ἀφίσταμαι." "⁷⁴³ ἐμοί τε γὰρ τάδ' ἐστὶν ἀσφαλέστερα," "⁷⁴⁴ σκῆψίν τιν' ἐχθροῖς σοῖς ἔχοντα δεικνύναι," "⁷⁴⁵ τὸ σόν τ' ἄραρε μᾶλλον: ἐξηγοῦ θεούς." "⁷⁴⁶ ὄμνυ πέδον Γῆς πατέρα θ' ̔́Ηλιον πατρὸς" '⁷⁴⁷ τοὐμοῦ θεῶν τε συντιθεὶς ἅπαν γένος. ⁷⁴⁸ τί χρῆμα δράσειν ἢ τί μὴ δράσειν; λέγε.' "⁷⁴⁹ μήτ' αὐτὸς ἐκ γῆς σῆς ἔμ' ἐκβαλεῖν ποτε," "⁷⁵⁰ μήτ', ἄλλος ἤν τις τῶν ἐμῶν ἐχθρῶν ἄγειν" '⁷⁵¹ χρῄζῃ, μεθήσειν ζῶν ἑκουσίῳ τρόπῳ.' "⁷⁵² ὄμνυμι Γαῖαν ̔Ηλίου θ' ἁγνὸν σέλας" '⁷⁵³ θεούς τε πάντας ἐμμενεῖν ἅ σου κλύω.' "⁷⁵⁴ ἀρκεῖ: τί δ' ὅρκῳ τῷδε μὴ 'μμένων πάθοις;" '⁷⁵⁵ ἃ τοῖσι δυσσεβοῦσι γίγνεται βροτῶν. ⁷⁵⁶ χαίρων πορεύου: πάντα γὰρ καλῶς ἔχει.' "⁷⁵⁷ κἀγὼ πόλιν σὴν ὡς τάχιστ' ἀφίξομαι," "⁷⁵⁸ πράξας' ἃ μέλλω καὶ τυχοῦς' ἃ βούλομαι." "⁷⁵⁹ ἀλλά ς' ὁ Μαίας πομπαῖος ἄναξ" "⁷⁶⁰ πελάσειε δόμοις ὧν τ' ἐπίνοιαν" '⁷⁶¹ σπεύδεις κατέχων πράξειας, ἐπεὶ ⁷⁶² γενναῖος ἀνήρ,' "⁷⁶³ Αἰγεῦ, παρ' ἐμοὶ δεδόκησαι." '⁷⁶⁴ ὦ Ζεῦ Δίκη τε Ζηνὸς ̔Ηλίου τε φῶς, ⁷⁶⁵ νῦν καλλίνικοι τῶν ἐμῶν ἐχθρῶν, φίλαι, ⁷⁶⁶ γενησόμεσθα κεἰς ὁδὸν βεβήκαμεν, ⁷⁶⁷ νῦν ἐλπὶς ἐχθροὺς τοὺς ἐμοὺς τείσειν δίκην.' "⁷⁶⁸ οὗτος γὰρ ἁνὴρ ᾗ μάλιστ' ἐκάμνομεν" '⁷⁶⁹ λιμὴν πέφανται τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων:' "⁷⁷⁰ ἐκ τοῦδ' ἀναψόμεσθα πρυμνήτην κάλων," '⁷⁷¹ μολόντες ἄστυ καὶ πόλισμα Παλλάδος. ⁷⁷² ἤδη δὲ πάντα τἀμά σοι βουλεύματα ⁷⁷³ λέξω: δέχου δὲ μὴ πρὸς ἡδονὴν λόγους.' "⁷⁷⁴ πέμψας' ἐμῶν τιν' οἰκετῶν ̓Ιάσονα" '⁷⁷⁵ ἐς ὄψιν ἐλθεῖν τὴν ἐμὴν αἰτήσομαι.' "⁷⁷⁶ μολόντι δ' αὐτῷ μαλθακοὺς λέξω λόγους," '⁷⁷⁷ ὡς καὶ δοκεῖ μοι ταὐτὰ καὶ καλῶς γαμεῖ ⁷⁷⁸ γάμους τυράννων οὓς προδοὺς ἡμᾶς ἔχει,' "⁷⁷⁹ καὶ ξύμφορ' εἶναι καὶ καλῶς ἐγνωσμένα." '⁷⁸⁰ παῖδας δὲ μεῖναι τοὺς ἐμοὺς αἰτήσομαι,' "⁷⁸¹ οὐχ ὡς λιποῦς' ἂν πολεμίας ἐπὶ χθονὸς" '⁷⁸² ἐχθροῖσι παῖδας τοὺς ἐμοὺς καθυβρίσαι,' "⁷⁸³ ἀλλ' ὡς δόλοισι παῖδα βασιλέως κτάνω." "⁷⁸⁴ πέμψω γὰρ αὐτοὺς δῶρ' ἔχοντας ἐν χεροῖν," '⁷⁸⁵ νύμφῃ φέροντας, τήνδε μὴ φυγεῖν χθόνα, ⁷⁸⁶ λεπτόν τε πέπλον καὶ πλόκον χρυσήλατον: ⁷⁸⁷ κἄνπερ λαβοῦσα κόσμον ἀμφιθῇ χροί̈,' "⁷⁸⁸ κακῶς ὀλεῖται πᾶς θ' ὃς ἂν θίγῃ κόρης:" '⁷⁸⁹ τοιοῖσδε χρίσω φαρμάκοις δωρήματα.' "⁷⁹⁰ ἐνταῦθα μέντοι τόνδ' ἀπαλλάσσω λόγον." "⁷⁹¹ ᾤμωξα δ' οἷον ἔργον ἔστ' ἐργαστέον" '⁷⁹² τοὐντεῦθεν ἡμῖν: τέκνα γὰρ κατακτενῶ' "⁷⁹³ τἄμ': οὔτις ἔστιν ὅστις ἐξαιρήσεται:" "⁷⁹⁴ δόμον τε πάντα συγχέας' ̓Ιάσονος" '⁷⁹⁵ ἔξειμι γαίας, φιλτάτων παίδων φόνον' "⁷⁹⁶ φεύγουσα καὶ τλᾶς' ἔργον ἀνοσιώτατον." '⁷⁹⁷ οὐ γὰρ γελᾶσθαι τλητὸν ἐξ ἐχθρῶν, φίλαι. ⁷⁹⁸ ἴτω: τί μοι ζῆν κέρδος; οὔτε μοι πατρὶς' "⁷⁹⁹ οὔτ' οἶκος ἔστιν οὔτ' ἀποστροφὴ κακῶν." "⁸⁰⁰ ἡμάρτανον τόθ' ἡνίκ' ἐξελίμπανον" '⁸⁰¹ δόμους πατρῴους, ἀνδρὸς ̔́Ελληνος λόγοις' "⁸⁰² πεισθεῖς', ὃς ἡμῖν σὺν θεῷ τείσει δίκην." "⁸⁰³ οὔτ' ἐξ ἐμοῦ γὰρ παῖδας ὄψεταί ποτε" '⁸⁰⁴ ζῶντας τὸ λοιπὸν οὔτε τῆς νεοζύγου' "⁸⁰⁵ νύμφης τεκνώσει παῖδ', ἐπεὶ κακὴν κακῶς" "⁸⁰⁶ θανεῖν σφ' ἀνάγκη τοῖς ἐμοῖσι φαρμάκοις." '⁸⁰⁷ μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω' "⁸⁰⁸ μηδ' ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου," '⁸⁰⁹ βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ: ⁸¹⁰ τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος.' "⁸¹¹ ἐπείπερ ἡμῖν τόνδ' ἐκοίνωσας λόγον," "⁸¹² σέ τ' ὠφελεῖν θέλουσα καὶ νόμοις βροτῶν" "⁸¹³ ξυλλαμβάνουσα δρᾶν ς' ἀπεννέπω τάδε." '⁸¹⁴ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλως: σοὶ δὲ συγγνώμη λέγειν' "⁸¹⁵ τάδ' ἐστί, μὴ πάσχουσαν, ὡς ἐγώ, κακῶς." '⁸¹⁶ ἀλλὰ κτανεῖν σὸν σπέρμα τολμήσεις, γύναι; ⁸¹⁷ οὕτω γὰρ ἂν μάλιστα δηχθείη πόσις.' "⁸¹⁸ σὺ δ' ἂν γένοιό γ' ἀθλιωτάτη γυνή." '⁸¹⁹ ἴτω: περισσοὶ πάντες οὑν μέσῳ λόγοι.' "⁸²⁰ ἀλλ' εἶα χώρει καὶ κόμιζ' ̓Ιάσονα" '⁸²¹ （ἐς πάντα γὰρ δὴ σοὶ τὰ πιστὰ χρώμεθα） ⁸²² λέξῃς δὲ μηδὲν τῶν ἐμοὶ δεδογμένων,' "⁸²³ εἴπερ φρονεῖς εὖ δεσπόταις γυνή τ' ἔφυς." "¹³²⁹ ὄλοι'. ἐγὼ δὲ νῦν φρονῶ, τότ' οὐ φρονῶν,"¹³⁸⁹ ἀλλά ς' ̓Ερινὺς ὀλέσειε τέκνων" '¹³⁹⁰ φονία τε Δίκη. " None

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663 All hail, Medea! no man knoweth fairer prelude to the greeting of friends than this. Medea ⁶⁶⁵ All hail to thee likewise, Aegeus, son of wise Pandion. Whence comest thou to this land? Aegeu ⁶⁶⁷ From Phoebus’ ancient oracle. Medea ⁶⁶⁸ What took thee on thy travels to the prophetic centre of the earth? Aegeu ⁶⁶⁹ The wish to ask how I might raise up seed unto myself. Medea ⁶⁷⁰ Pray tell me, hast thou till now dragged on a childless life? Aegeu ⁶⁷¹ I have no child owing to the visitation of some god. Medea ⁶⁷² Hast thou a wife, or hast thou never known the married state? Aegeu ⁶⁷³ I have a wife joined to me in wedlock’s bond. Medea ⁶⁷⁴ What said Phoebus to thee as to children? Aegeu ⁶⁷⁵ Words too subtle for man to comprehend. Medea ⁶⁷⁶ Surely I may learn the god’s answer? Aegeu ⁶⁷⁷ Most assuredly, for it is just thy subtle wit it needs. Medea ⁶⁷⁸ What said the god? speak, if I may hear it. Aegeu ⁶⁷⁹ He bade me not loose the wineskin’s pendent neck. i.e., enjoined strict chastity. Medea ⁶⁸⁰ Till when? what must thou do first, what country visit? Aegeu ⁶⁸¹ Till I to my native home return. Medea ⁶⁸² What object hast thou in sailing to this land? Aegeu ⁶⁸³ O’er Troezen’s realm is Pittheus king. Medea ⁶⁸⁴ Pelops’ son, a man devout they say. Aegeu ⁶⁸⁵ To him I fain would impart the oracle of the god. Medea ⁶⁸⁶ The man is shrewd and versed in such-like lore. Aegeu ⁶⁸⁷ Aye, and to me the dearest of all my warrior friends. Medea ⁶⁸⁸ Good luck to thee! success to all thy wishes! Aegeu ⁶⁸⁹ But why that downcast eye, that wasted cheek? Medea ⁶⁹⁰ O Aegeus, my husband has proved a monster of iniquity. Aegeu ⁶⁹¹ What meanest thou? explain to me clearly the cause of thy despondency. Medea ⁶⁹² Jason is wronging me though I have given him no cause. Aegeu ⁶⁹³ What hath he done? tell me more clearly. Medea ⁶⁹⁴ He is taking another wife to succeed me as mistress of his house. Aegeu ⁶⁹⁵ Can he have brought himself to such a dastard deed? Medea ⁶⁹⁶ Be assured thereof; I, whom he loved of yore, am in dishonour now. Aegeu ⁶⁹⁷ Hath he found a new love? or does he loathe thy bed? Medea ⁶⁹⁸ Much in love is he! A traitor to his friend is he become. Aegeu ⁶⁹⁹ Enough! if he is a villain as thou sayest. Medea ⁷⁰⁰ The alliance he is so much enamoured of is with a princess. Aegeu ⁷⁰¹ Who gives his daughter to him? go on, I pray. Medea ⁷⁰² Creon, who is lord of this land of Corinth. Aegeu ⁷⁰³ Lady, I can well pardon thy grief. Medea ⁷⁰⁴ I am undone, and more than that, am banished from the land. Aegeu ⁷⁰⁵ By whom? fresh woe this word of thine unfolds. Medea ⁷⁰⁶ Creon drives me forth in exile from Corinth. Aegeu ⁷⁰⁷ Doth Jason allow it? This too I blame him for. Medea ⁷⁰⁸ Not in words, but he will not stand out against it. Ο, I implore thee by this beard ⁷¹⁰ and by thy knees, in suppliant posture, pity, O pity my sorrows; do not see me cast forth forlorn, but receive me in thy country, to a seat within thy halls. So may thy wish by heaven’s grace be crowned with a full harvest ⁷¹⁵ of offspring, and may thy life close in happiness! Thou knowest not the rare good luck thou findest here, for I will make thy childlessness to cease and cause thee to beget fair issue; so potent are the spells I know. Aegeu ⁷¹⁹ Lady, on many grounds I am most fain to grant thee this thy boon, ⁷²⁰ first for the gods’ sake, next for the children whom thou dost promise I shall beget; for in respect of this I am completely lost. The Schol. gives two interpretations of φροῦδος , (1) I am ruined as far as begetting children goes. (2) I am entirely devoted to doing so. Neither is satisfactory owing to want of parallel passages. ’Tis thus with me; if e’er thou reach my land, I will attempt to champion thee as I am bound to do. ⁷²⁵ Only one warning I do give thee first, lady; I will not from this land bear thee away, yet if of thyself thou reach my halls, there shalt thou bide in safety and I will never yield thee up to any man. But from this land escape without my aid, ⁷³⁰ for I have no wish to incur the blame of my allies as well. i.e., as well as Jason. Medea ⁷³¹ It shall be even so; but wouldst thou pledge thy word to this, I should in all be well content with thee. Aegeu ⁷³³ Surely thou dost trust me? or is there aught that troubles thee? Medea ⁷³⁴ Thee I trust; but Pelias’ house and Creon are my foes. ⁷³⁵ Wherefore, if thou art bound by an oath, thou wilt not give To avoid the very doubtful form μεθεῖς = μεθείης some read μεθεῖ’ ἂν . me up to them when they come to drag me from the land, but, having entered into a compact and sworn Reading ἐνώμοτος . Hermann changes καὶ into μὴ . A simpler change, supported by a Schol., and one MS., would be to read ἀνωμοτος = whereas if thou only make a verbal compact, without oath, thou mightest be persuaded, etc. The whole passage is, as it stands, probably corrupt; numerous emendations have been proposed. If the above emendation be adopted, it will be necessary to alter οὐκ ἂν πίθοιο for which Munro proposed ὀκνῶν πίθοιο = and fearing their demands of surrender thou mightest yield. Wecklein, τάχ’ ἂν τίθοι σε (adopted by Nauck), is tempting. by heaven as well, thou wilt become my friend and disregard their overtures. Weak is any aid of mine, ⁷⁴⁰ whilst they have wealth and a princely house. Aegeu ⁷⁴¹ Lady, thy words show much foresight, so if this is thy will, I do not refuse. For I shall feel secure and safe if I have some pretext to offer to thy foes, ⁷⁴⁵ and thy case too the firmer stands. Now name thy gods. Medea ⁷⁴⁶ Swear by the plain of Earth, by Helios my father’s sire, and, in one comprehensive oath, by all the race of gods. Aegeu ⁷⁴⁸ What shall I swear to do, from what refrain? tell me that. Medea ⁷⁴⁹ Swear that thou wilt never of thyself expel me from thy land, ⁷⁵⁰ nor, whilst life is thine, permit any other, one of my foes maybe, to hale me thence if so he will. Aegeu ⁷⁵² By earth I swear, by the sun-god’s holy beam and by all the host of heaven that I will stand fast to the terms, I hear thee make. Medea ⁷⁵⁴ ’Tis enough. If thou shouldst break this oath, what curse dost thou invoke upon thyself? Aegeu ⁷⁵⁵ Whate’er betides the impious. Medea ⁷⁵⁶ Go in peace; all is well, and I with what speed I may, will to thy city come, when I have wrought my purpose and obtained my wish. Choru ⁷⁵⁹ May Maia’s princely son ⁷⁶⁰ go with thee on thy way to bring thee to thy home, and mayest thou attain that on which thy soul is set so firmly, for to my mind thou seemest a generous man, O Aegeus. Medea ⁷⁶⁴ O Zeus, and Justice, child of Zeus, and sun-god’s light, ⁷⁶⁵ now will I triumph o’er my foes, kind friends; on victory’s road have I set forth; good hope have I of wreaking vengeance on those I hate. For where we were in most distress this stranger hath appeared, to be a haven in my counsels; ⁷⁷⁰ to him will we make fast the cables of our ship when we come to the town and citadel of Pallas. But now will I explain to thee my plans in full; do not expect to hear a pleasant tale. A servant of mine will I to Jason ⁷⁷⁵ end and crave an interview; then when he comes I will address him with soft words, say, this pleases me, and, that is well, even the marriage with the princess, which my treacherous lord is celebrating, and add it suits us both, ’twas well thought out ; Porson condemns these two lines. ⁷⁸⁰ then will I entreat that here my children may abide, not that I mean to leave them in a hostile land for foes to flout, but that I may slay the king’s daughter by guile. For I will send them with gifts in their hands, ⁷⁸⁵ carrying them unto the bride to save them from banishment, a robe of finest woof and a chaplet of gold. And if these ornaments she take and put them on, miserably shall she die, and likewise everyone who touches her; with such fell poisons will I smear my gifts. ⁷⁹⁰ And here I quit this theme; but I shudder at the deed I must do next; for I will slay the children I have borne; there is none shall take them from my toils; and when I have utterly confounded Jason’s house ⁷⁹⁵ I will leave the land, escaping punishment for my dear children’s murder, after my most unholy deed. For I cannot endure the taunts of enemies, kind friends; enough! what gain is life to me? I have no country, home, or refuge left. ⁸⁰⁰ Ο, I did wrong, that hour I left my father’s home, persuaded by that Hellene’s words, who now shall pay the penalty, so help me God. Never shall he see again alive the children I bore to him, ⁸⁰⁵ nor from his new bride shall he beget issue, for she must die a hideous death, slain by my drugs. Let no one deem me a poor weak woman who sits with folded hands, but of another mould, dangerous to foes and well-disposed to friends; ⁸¹⁰ for they win the fairest fame who live their life like me. Choru ⁸¹¹ Since thou hast imparted this design to me, I bid thee hold thy hand, both from a wish to serve thee and because I would uphold the laws men make. Medea ⁸¹⁴ It cannot but be so; thy word ⁸¹⁵ I pardon since thou art not in the same sorry plight that I am. Choru ⁸¹⁶ O lady, wilt thou steel thyself to slay thy children twain? Medea ⁸¹⁷ I will, for that will stab my husband to the heart. Choru ⁸¹⁸ It may, but thou wilt be the saddest wife alive. Medea ⁸¹⁹ No matter; wasted is every word that comes ’twixt now and then. ⁸²⁰ (To the Nurse.) Ho! thou, go call me Jason hither, for thee I do employ on every mission of trust. No word divulge of all my purpose, as thou art to thy mistress loyal and likewise of my sex. Choru ¹³²⁹ who hadst the heart to stab thy babes, thou their mother, leaving me undone and childless; this hast thou done and still dost gaze upon the sun and earth after this deed most impious. Curses on thee! I now perceive what then I missed¹³⁸⁹ The curse of our sons’ avenging spirit and of Justice, ¹³⁹⁰ that calls for blood, be on thee! Medea ' None

3. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 1181-1189 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus • Aegeus and Medea • Medea, oath with Aegeus

Found in books: Boeghold (2022), When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature. 24; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 24, 25, 29

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1181 First of all, put your right hand in mine. Hyllus: '¹¹⁸² With what purpose in mind do you so strongly urge this pledge on me? Heracles: ¹¹⁸³ Give your hand at once—do not disobey me! Hyllus: ¹¹⁸⁴ Here, I hold it out to you. Nothing will be denied you. Heracles: ¹¹⁸⁵ Now, swear by the head of Zeus my begetter! Hyllus: ¹¹⁸⁶ To do what deed? May this also be revealed? Heracles: ¹¹⁸⁷ To perform for me the task that I shall impose. Hyllus: ¹¹⁸⁸ I swear it with Zeus for witness of the oath. Heracles: ¹¹⁸⁹ And pray that, if you break this oath, you may suffer. Hyllus: ' None

4. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2.5.12, 3.15.7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus

Found in books: Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 8; Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 8, 17; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 305

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3.15.7 καὶ Τροιζῆνα διοδεύων ἐπιξενοῦται Πιτθεῖ τῷ Πέλοπος, ὃς τὸν χρησμὸν συνείς, μεθύσας αὐτὸν τῇ θυγατρὶ συγκατέκλινεν Αἴθρᾳ. τῇ δὲ αὐτῇ νυκτὶ καὶ Ποσειδῶν ἐπλησίασεν αὐτῇ. Αἰγεὺς δὲ ἐντειλάμενος Αἴθρᾳ, ἐὰν ἄρρενα γεννήσῃ, τρέφειν, τίνος ἐστὶ μὴ λέγουσαν, 2 -- ἀπέλιπεν ὑπό τινα πέτραν 3 -- μάχαιραν καὶ πέδιλα, εἰπών, ὅταν ὁ παῖς δύνηται τὴν πέτραν ἀποκυλίσας ἀνελέσθαι ταῦτα, τότε μετʼ αὐτῶν αὐτὸν ἀποπέμπειν. αὐτὸς δὲ ἧκεν εἰς Ἀθήνας, καὶ τὸν τῶν Παναθηναίων ἀγῶνα ἐπετέλει, ἐν ᾧ ὁ Μίνωος παῖς Ἀνδρόγεως ἐνίκησε πάντας. τοῦτον Αἰγεὺς 4 -- ἐπὶ τὸν Μαραθώνιον ἔπεμψε ταῦρον, ὑφʼ οὗ διεφθάρη. ἔνιοι δὲ αὐτὸν λέγουσι πορευόμενον εἰς Θήβας 5 -- ἐπὶ τὸν Λαΐου ἀγῶνα πρὸς τῶν ἀγωνιστῶν ἐνεδρευθέντα διὰ φθόνον ἀπολέσθαι. Μίνως δέ, ἀγγελθέντος αὐτῷ τοῦ θανάτου, 1 -- θύων ἐν Πάρῳ ταῖς χάρισι, τὸν μὲν στέφανον ἀπὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς ἔρριψε καὶ τὸν αὐλὸν κατέσχε, τὴν δὲ θυσίαν οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐπετέλεσεν· ὅθεν ἔτι καὶ δεῦρο χωρὶς αὐλῶν καὶ στεφάνων ἐν Πάρῳ θύουσι ταῖς χάρισι.' ' None

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3.15.7 And journeying by way of Troezen, he lodged with Pittheus, son of Pelops, who, understanding the oracle, made him drunk and caused him to lie with his daughter Aethra. But in the same night Poseidon also had connexion with her. Now Aegeus charged Aethra that, if she gave birth to a male child, she should rear it, without telling whose it was; and he left a sword and sandals under a certain rock, saying that when the boy could roll away the rock and take them up, she was then to send him away with them. But he himself came to Athens and celebrated the games of the Panathenian festival, in which Androgeus, son of Minos, vanquished all comers. Him Aegeus sent against the bull of Marathon, by which he was destroyed. But some say that as he journeyed to Thebes to take part in the games in honor of Laius, he was waylaid and murdered by the jealous competitors. But when the tidings of his death were brought to Minos, as he was sacrificing to the Graces in Paros, he threw away the garland from his head and stopped the music of the flute, but nevertheless completed the sacrifice; hence down to this day they sacrifice to the Graces in Paros without flutes and garlands.' ' None

5. Apollodorus, Epitome, 1.5-1.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus • Aegeus (Sophocles) • Aethra, and Aegeus • general Theseus, and Aegeus

Found in books: Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 12; Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 550

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1.5 Μήδεια δὲ Αἰγεῖ τότε συνοικοῦσα 5 -- ἐπεβούλευσεν αὐτῷ, καὶ πείθει τὸν Αἰγέα φυλάττεσθαι ὡς ἐπίβουλον αὐτῷ. 6 -- Αἰγεὺς δὲ τὸν ἴδιον ἀγνοῶν παῖδα, δείσας 7 -- ἔπεμψεν ἐπὶ τὸν Μαραθώνιον ταῦρον. 8 -- ^1.6 ὡς δὲ ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν, παρὰ Μηδείας λαβὼν αὐθήμερον 9 -- προσήνεγκεν αὐτῷ φάρμακον. ὁ δὲ μέλλοντος αὐτῷ τοῦ ποτοῦ προσφέρεσθαι ἐδωρήσατο τῷ πατρὶ τὸ ξίφος, ὅπερ ἐπιγνοὺς Αἰγεὺς 10 -- τὴν κύλικα ἐξέρριψε τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ. Θησεὺς δὲ ἀναγνωρισθεὶς τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν μαθὼν ἐξέβαλε τὴν Μήδειαν.'' None

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1.5 But Medea, being then wedded to Aegeus, plotted against him That Theseus was sent against the Marathonian bull at the instigation of Medea is affirmed also by the First Vatican Mythographer. See Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. p. 18, (First Vatican Mythographer, Fab. 48) . Compare Plut. Thes. 14 ; Paus. 1.27.10 ; Ov. Met. 7.433ff. As to Medes at Athens, see above, Apollod. 1.9.28 . and persuaded Aegeus to beware of him as a traitor. And Aegeus, not knowing his own son, was afraid and sent him against the Marathonian bull. ^1.6 And when Theseus had killed it, Aegeus presented to him a poison which he had received the selfsame day from Medea. But just as the draught was about to be administered to him, he gave his father the sword, and on recognizing it Aegeus dashed the cup from his hands. Compare Plut. Thes. 12 ; Scholiast on Hom. Il. xi.741 ; Ov. Met. 7.404-424 . According to Ovid, the poison by which Medea attempted the life of Theseus was aconite, which she had brought with her from Scythia . The incident seems to have been narrated by Sophocles in his tragedy Aegeus . See The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. i. pp. 15ff. And when Theseus was thus made known to his father and informed of the plot, he expelled Medea. '' None

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus

Found in books: Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 18; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 276

7. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.15.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus • Aegeus, hero of Athens

Found in books: Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 11; Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 34

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1.15.3 τελευταῖον δὲ τῆς γραφῆς εἰσιν οἱ μαχεσάμενοι Μαραθῶνι· Βοιωτῶν δὲ οἱ Πλάταιαν ἔχοντες καὶ ὅσον ἦν Ἀττικὸν ἴασιν ἐς χεῖρας τοῖς βαρβάροις. καὶ ταύτῃ μέν ἐστιν ἴσα τὰ παρʼ ἀμφοτέρων ἐς τὸ ἔργον· τὸ δὲ ἔσω τῆς μάχης φεύγοντές εἰσιν οἱ βάρβαροι καὶ ἐς τὸ ἕλος ὠθοῦντες ἀλλήλους, ἔσχαται δὲ τῆς γραφῆς νῆές τε αἱ Φοίνισσαι καὶ τῶν βαρβάρων τοὺς ἐσπίπτοντας ἐς ταύτας φονεύοντες οἱ Ἕλληνες. ἐνταῦθα καὶ Μαραθὼν γεγραμμένος ἐστὶν ἥρως, ἀφʼ οὗ τὸ πεδίον ὠνόμασται, καὶ Θησεὺς ἀνιόντι ἐκ γῆς εἰκασμένος Ἀθηνᾶ τε καὶ Ἡρακλῆς· Μαραθωνίοις γάρ, ὡς αὐτοὶ λέγουσιν, Ἡρακλῆς ἐνομίσθη θεὸς πρώτοις. τῶν μαχομένων δὲ δῆλοι μάλιστά εἰσιν ἐν τῇ γραφῇ Καλλίμαχός τε, ὃς Ἀθηναίοις πολεμαρχεῖν ᾕρητο, καὶ Μιλτιάδης τῶν στρατηγούντων, ἥρως τε Ἔχετλος καλούμενος, οὗ καὶ ὕστερον ποιήσομαι μνήμην.'' None

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1.15.3 At the end of the painting are those who fought at Marathon; the Boeotians of Plataea and the Attic contingent are coming to blows with the foreigners. In this place neither side has the better, but the center of the fighting shows the foreigners in flight and pushing one another into the morass, while at the end of the painting are the Phoenician ships, and the Greeks killing the foreigners who are scrambling into them. Here is also a portrait of the hero Marathon, after whom the plain is named, of Theseus represented as coming up from the under-world, of Athena and of Heracles. The Marathonians, according to their own account, were the first to regard Heracles as a god. of the fighters the most conspicuous figures in the painting are Callimachus, who had been elected commander-in-chief by the Athenians, Miltiades, one of the generals, and a hero called Echetlus, of whom I shall make mention later.'' None

8. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Aegeus

Found in books: Augoustakis et al. (2021), Fides in Flavian Literature, 98; Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 173

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