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20 results for "erinyes"

1. Homer, Iliad, 3.278-3.279, 19.259-19.260 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 296

3.278. καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ γαῖα, καὶ οἳ ὑπένερθε καμόντας 3.279. ἀνθρώπους τίνυσθον ὅτις κʼ ἐπίορκον ὀμόσσῃ, 19.259. Γῆ τε καὶ Ἠέλιος καὶ Ἐρινύες, αἵ θʼ ὑπὸ γαῖαν 19.260. ἀνθρώπους τίνυνται, ὅτις κʼ ἐπίορκον ὀμόσσῃ,

3.278. Then in their midst Agamemnon lifted up his hands and prayed aloud:Father Zeus, that rulest from Ida, most glorious, most great, and thou Sun, that beholdest all things and hearest all things, and ye rivers and thou earth, and ye that in the world below take vengeance on men that are done with life, whosoever hath sworn a false oath; 3.279. Then in their midst Agamemnon lifted up his hands and prayed aloud:Father Zeus, that rulest from Ida, most glorious, most great, and thou Sun, that beholdest all things and hearest all things, and ye rivers and thou earth, and ye that in the world below take vengeance on men that are done with life, whosoever hath sworn a false oath; 19.259. made prayer to Zeus; and all the Argives sat thereby in silence, hearkening as was meet unto the king. And he spake in prayer, with a look up to the wide heaven:Be Zeus my witness first, highest and best of gods, and Earth and Sun, and the Erinyes, that under earth 19.260. take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath, that never laid I hand upon the girl Briseis either by way of a lover's embrace or anywise else, but she ever abode untouched in my huts. And if aught of this oath be false, may the gods give me woes

2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1431-1434, 1436, 1435 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 120, 296, 324

3. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 43-48, 42 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 120

42. ἄνδρες γὰρ ἑπτά, θούριοι λοχαγέται,

4. Euripides, Medea, 1059 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 296

1059. ἐκεῖ μεθ' ἡμῶν ζῶντες εὐφρανοῦσί σε.

1059. must see to it himself; I will not spoil my handiwork. Ah! ah! do not, my heart, O do not do this deed! Let the children go, unhappy one, spare the babes! For if they live, they will cheer thee in our exile there. At Athens. Nay, by the fiends of hell’s abyss,

5. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 948-950, 952-954, 951 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

951. never shall king Agamemnon touch your daughter, no! not even to the laying of a finger-tip upon her robe; or Sipylus A mountain in Lycia , near which was shown the grave of Tantalus, the ancestor of the Atridae; the town of the same name was swallowed up in very early times by an earthquake. , that frontier town of barbarism, the cradle of those chieftains’ line, will be henceforth a city indeed, while Phthia ’s name will nowhere find mention.

6. Euripides, Cyclops, 262-267, 269, 268 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

7. Aristophanes, Wasps, 1474 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

8. Sophocles, Electra, 417-420, 422-423, 881-882, 421 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

421. once his own, but now carried by Aegisthus—and planted it at the hearth. From it branched upward a flourishing limb, by which the whole land of the Mycenaeans was overshadowed. Such was the tale that I heard told by one who was present

9. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 1067, 1069, 1068 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

1068. ἐφάπτεταί σου λανθάνειν δοκῶν ἐμέ.

10. Aristophanes, Clouds, 519, 773 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

773. σοφῶς γε νὴ τὰς Χάριτας. οἴμ' ὡς ἥδομαι

11. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 855-858, 939, 554 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

554. οἶμαί ποτε Λυσιμάχας ἡμᾶς ἐν τοῖς ̔́Ελλησι καλεῖσθαι.

12. Aristophanes, Women of The Assembly, 1000, 1008, 380-397, 428-454, 981, 999, 427 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

13. Aristophanes, Birds, 1237, 1614, 194, 525-538, 630-635, 1236 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

1236. ὄρνιθες ἀνθρώποισι νῦν εἰσιν θεοί,

14. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 254 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

15. Plato, Gorgias, 489e (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

16. Xenarchus Comicus, Fragments, fr.9 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

17. Aelius Aristidesthe Isthmian Oration, The Isthmian Oration Regarding Poseidon, choephoroi (libation bearers) (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 120

18. Aelius Aristidesthe Isthmian Oration, The Isthmian Oration Regarding Poseidon, choephoroi (libation bearers) (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 120

19. Aelius Aristides, The Isthmian Oration: Regarding Poseidon, choephoroi (libation bearers) (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 120

20. Various, Comica Adespota, 1062.12 Tagged with subjects: •erinyes, oaths invoking Found in books: Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 324

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