| 1. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 164-222, 224-245, 223 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 110 |
2. Aristophanes, Birds, 1337-1375, 1377-1469, 1376 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 153| 1376. ἀφόβῳ φρενὶ σώματί τε νέαν ἐφέπων — | |
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3. Aristophanes, Frogs, 1310-1312, 1309 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 153 1309. ἀλκυόνες, αἳ παρ' ἀενάοις θαλάσσης 1309. > | |
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| 4. Euripides, Electra, 508-519, 521-584, 520 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 110 |
| 5. Euripides, Helen, 1109-1110, 1478-1482, 1491-1494, 1108 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 153 |
6. Euripides, Hippolytus, 715-730, 732-734, 736-737, 746-747, 731 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 150| 731. κοινῇ μετασχὼν σωφρονεῖν μαθήσεται. | 731. but when he comes to share the self-same plague with me, he will take a lesson in wisdom. Choru |
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7. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 1, 1090-1152, 2-3, 30, 4-7, 793-797, 8, 822-826, 838-840, 9, 1089 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 151, 152 | 1089. CHORUS (singing, strophe 1) O bird, that round each craggy height Projecting o'er the sea below, Wheelest thy melancholy flight, Thy song attuned to notes of woe; The wise thy tender sorrows own, Which thy lost lord unceasing moan; Like thine, sad halcyon, be my strain, A bird, that have no wings to fly: With fond desire for Greece I sigh, And for my much-loved social train; Sigh for Diana, pitying maid, Who joys to rove o'er Cynthus' heights. Or in the branching laurel's shade, Or in the soft-hair'd palm delights, Or the hoar olive's sacred boughs, Lenient of sad Leto's woes; Or in the lake, that rolls its wave Where swans their plumage love to lave; Then, to the Muses soaring high, The homage pay of melody. antistrophe 1) Ye tears, what frequent-falling showers Roll'd down these cheeks in streams of woe, When in the dust my country's towers Lay levell'd by the conquering foe; And, to their spears a prey, their oars Brought me to these barbaric shores! For gold exchanged, a traffic base, No vulgar slave, the task is mine, Here at Diana's awful shrine, Who loves the woodland hind to chase, The virgin priestess to attend, Daughter of rich Mycenae's lord; At other shrines her wish to bend, Where bleeds the victim less abhorr'd: No respite to her griefs she knows; Not so the heart inured to woes, As train'd to sorrow's rigid lore: Now comes a change; it mourns no more: But lo long bliss when ill succeeds, The anguish'd heart for ever bleeds. strophe 2) Thee, loved virgin, freed from fear Home the Argive bark shall bear: Mountain Pan, with thrilling strain, To the oars that dash the main In just cadence well agreed, Shall accord his wax-join'd reed: Phoebus, with a prophet's fire Sweeping o'er his seven-string'd lyre, And his voice attuning high To the swelling harmony, Thee shall guide the wild waves o'er To the soft Athenian shore. Leaving me, thy oars shall sweep Eager o'er the foaming deep: Thou shalt catch the rising gales Swelling in thy firm-bound sails; And thy bark in gallant pride Light shall o'er the billows glide. antistrophe 2) Might I through the lucid air Fly where rolls yon flaming car, O'er those loved and modest bowers, Where I pass'd my youthful hours, I would stay my weary flight, Wave no more my pennons light, But, amid the virgin band, Once my loved companions, stand: Once mid them my charms could move, Blooming then, the flames of love; When the mazy dance I trod, While with joy my mother glow'd; When to vie in grace was mine, And in splendid robes to shine; For, with radiant tints impress'd, Glow'd for me the gorgeous vest; And these tresses gave new grace, As their ringlets shade my face. (THOAS and his retinue enter.) |
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8. Herodotus, Histories, 3.115, 4.103 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, distant settings in Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 122, 151| 3.115. αὗται μέν νυν ἔν τε τῇ Ἀσίῃ ἐσχατιαί εἰσι καὶ ἐν τῇ Λιβύῃ. περὶ δὲ τῶν ἐν τῇ Εὐρώπῃ τῶν πρὸς ἑσπέρην ἐσχατιέων ἔχω μὲν οὐκ ἀτρεκέως λέγειν· οὔτε γὰρ ἔγωγε ἐνδέκομαι Ἠριδανὸν καλέεσθαι πρὸς βαρβάρων ποταμὸν ἐκδιδόντα ἐς θάλασσαν τὴν πρὸς βορέην ἄνεμον, ἀπʼ ὅτευ τὸ ἤλεκτρον φοιτᾶν λόγος ἐστί, οὔτε νήσους οἶδα Κασσιτερίδας ἐούσας, ἐκ τῶν ὁ κασσίτερος ἡμῖν φοιτᾷ. τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ ὁ Ἠριδανὸς αὐτὸ κατηγορέει τὸ οὔνομα ὡς ἔστι Ἑλληνικὸν καὶ οὐ βάρβαρον, ὑπὸ ποιητέω δὲ τινὸς ποιηθέν· τοῦτο δὲ οὐδενὸς αὐτόπτεω γενομένου δύναμαι ἀκοῦσαι, τοῦτο μελετῶν, ὅκως θάλασσα ἐστὶ τὰ ἐπέκεινα Εὐρώπης. ἐξ ἐσχάτης δʼ ὦν ὁ κασσίτερος ἡμῖν φοιτᾷ καὶ τὸ ἤλεκτρον. 4.103. τούτων Ταῦροι μὲν νόμοισι τοιοῖσιδε χρέωνται· θύουσι μὲν τῇ, Παρθένῳ τούς τε ναυηγοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἂν λάβωσι Ἑλλήνων ἐπαναχθέντες τρόπῳ τοιῷδε· καταρξάμενοι ῥοπάλῳ παίουσι τὴν κεφαλήν. οἳ μὲν δὴ λέγουσι ὡς τὸ σῶμα ἀπὸ τοῦ κρημνοῦ ὠθέουσι κάτω ʽἐπὶ γὰρ κρημνοῦ ἵδρυται τὸ ἱρόν̓, τὴν δὲ κεφαλὴν ἀνασταυροῦσι· οἳ δὲ κατὰ μὲν τὴν κεφαλὴν ὁμολογέουσι, τὸ μέντοι σῶμα οὐκ ὠθέεσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ κρημνοῦ λέγουσι ἀλλὰ γῇ κρύπτεσθαι. τὴν δὲ δαίμονα ταύτην τῆ θύουσι λέγουσι αὐτοὶ Ταῦροι Ἰφιγένειαν τὴν Ἀγαμέμνονος εἶναι. πολεμίους δὲ ἄνδρας τοὺς ἂν χειρώσωνται ποιεῦσι τάδε· ἀποταμὼν ἕκαστος 1 κεφαλὴν ἀποφέρεται ἐς τὰ οἰκία, ἔπειτα ἐπὶ ξύλου μεγάλου ἀναπείρας ἱστᾷ ὑπὲρ τῆς οἰκίης ὑπερέχουσαν πολλόν, μάλιστα δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆς καπνοδόκης. φασὶ δὲ τούτους φυλάκους τῆς οἰκίης πάσης ὑπεραιωρέεσθαι. ζῶσι δὲ ἀπὸ ληίης τε καὶ πολέμου. | 3.115. These then are the most distant lands in Asia and Libya . But concerning those in Europe that are the farthest away towards evening, I cannot speak with assurance; for I do not believe that there is a river called by foreigners Eridanus issuing into the northern sea, where our amber is said to come from, nor do I have any knowledge of Tin Islands, where our tin is brought from. ,The very name Eridanus betrays itself as not a foreign but a Greek name, invented by some poet; nor for all my diligence have I been able to learn from one who has seen it that there is a sea beyond Europe . All we know is that our tin and amber come from the most distant parts. 4.103. Among these, the Tauri have the following customs: all ship-wrecked men, and any Greeks whom they capture in their sea-raids, they sacrifice to the Virgin goddess as I will describe: after the first rites of sacrifice, they strike the victim on the head with a club; ,according to some, they then place the head on a pole and throw the body off the cliff on which their temple stands; others agree as to the head, but say that the body is buried, not thrown off the cliff. The Tauri themselves say that this deity to whom they sacrifice is Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia. ,As for enemies whom they defeat, each cuts his enemy's head off and carries it away to his house, where he places it on a tall pole and stands it high above the dwelling, above the smoke-vent for the most part. These heads, they say, are set up to guard the whole house. The Tauri live by plundering and war. |
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| 9. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 8 pr.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, distant settings in Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 110 |
10. Hyginus, Fabulae (Genealogiae), 120-121 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 123 | 121. CHRYSES: When Agamemnon was on his was to Troy, Achilles, too, came to Moesia, and took Chryseis, daughter of the priest of Apollo, and gave her in marriage to Agamemnon. When Chryses came to Agamemnon to beg him to return his daughter, he was refused. Because of this Apollo destroyed almost all the army, partly by famine, partly by pestilence. And so Agamemnon sent back Chryseis, though she was pregt, to the priest. Though she claimed to be untouched by him, when her time came she bore Chryses the Younger, and said she had conceived by Apollo. Later when Chryses was about to return Iphigenia and Orestes to Thoas, he [Chryses the Elder] learned that they were children of Agamemnon, and revealed to Chryses his [grand]son the truth — that they were brothers and that he was a son of Agamemnon. Then Chryses, thus informed, with Orestes his brother, killed Thoas, and from there they came safe to Mycenae with the statue of Diana. |
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| 11. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, 158e, 561a (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 110 |
| 12. Sophocles, Chryses, frs. 726-9 trg radt Tagged with subjects: •euripides, distant settings in Found in books: Lightfoot, Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World (2021) 122 |
