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3 results for "chorus"

1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1035-1043, 1045-1071, 1256, 282, 548, 616, 978, 1044 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pillinger (2019) 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43

1044. οἳ δʼ οὔποτʼ ἐλπίσαντες ἤμησαν καλῶς,

1044. For those who, never hoping, made fine harvest

2. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 62 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •chorus, and cassandras silence Found in books: Pillinger (2019) 35

62. ἰατρόμαντις δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ τερασκόπος

3. Plato, Ion, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •chorus, and cassandras silence Found in books: Pillinger (2019) 40

534e. εὕρημά τι Μοισᾶν. ἐν τούτῳ γὰρ δὴ μάλιστά μοι δοκεῖ ὁ θεὸς ἐνδείξασθαι ἡμῖν, ἵνα μὴ διστάζωμεν, ὅτι οὐκ ἀνθρώπινά ἐστιν τὰ καλὰ ταῦτα ποιήματα οὐδὲ ἀνθρώπων, ἀλλὰ θεῖα καὶ θεῶν, οἱ δὲ ποιηταὶ οὐδὲν ἀλλʼ ἢ ἑρμηνῆς εἰσιν τῶν θεῶν, κατεχόμενοι ἐξ ὅτου ἂν ἕκαστος κατέχηται. ταῦτα ἐνδεικνύμενος ὁ θεὸς ἐξεπίτηδες διὰ τοῦ φαυλοτάτου

534e. intended him to be a sign to us that we should not waver or doubt that these fine poems are not human or the work of men, but divine and the work of gods; and that the poets are merely the interpreters of the gods, according as each is possessed by one of the heavenly powers. To show this forth, the god of set purpose sang the finest of songs through the meanest of poets:

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