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5 results for "agamemnon"
1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 205-247 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Feldman (2006) 258
247. ποτμον παιῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα— Χορός 247. Good fortune to the sire she loved so well.
2. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 408-409, 407 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Feldman (2006) 258
407. πόλλ': ἓν δὲ πᾶσι γνῶμα ταὐτὸν ἐμπρέπει:
3. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 323-324 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Feldman (2006) 258
4. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 183 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •agamemnon, motive of in sacrificing iphigenia Found in books: Feldman (2006) 258
183. One may well admire the exceeding courage of these women, who look thus contemptuously on death, and disdain it so exceedingly that they hasten and run impetuously towards it as if they were grasping immortality. XXXIV. But why, say they, ought one to praise Abraham as the attempter of a wholly novel kind of conduct, when it is only what private men and kings, and even whole nations do at appropriate seasons?
5. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 1.218 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •agamemnon, motive of in sacrificing iphigenia Found in books: Feldman (2006) 258
1.218. But as soon as her necessary provisions failed, she found herself in an evil case; and when the water was almost spent, she laid the young child, who was ready to expire, under a fig-tree, and went on further, that so he might die while she was absent.