| 1. Homer, Odyssey, 1.23-1.24, 8.490, 8.517-8.520, 9.14-9.15, 9.373, 11.321 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus •hippolytus (euripides), artemis in •hippolytus (euripides), and phaedra Found in books: Braund and Most (2004) 60; Jouanna (2018) 366, 607; Liapis and Petrides (2019) 58 |
2. Homer, Iliad, 24.5, 24.723-24.745 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •hippolytus (euripides), artemis in •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Braund and Most (2004) 60; Jouanna (2018) 366 | 24.5. / Then was the gathering broken up, and the folk scattered, each man to go to his own ship. The rest bethought them of supper and of sweet sleep, to take their fill thereof; but Achilles wept, ever remembering his dear comrade, neither might sleep, 24.5. / that mastereth all, lay hold of him, but he turned him ever to this side or to that, yearning for the man-hood and valorous might of Patroclus, thinking on all he had wrought with him and all the woes he had borne, passing though wars of men and the grievous waves. Thinking thereon he would shed big tears, 24.723. / laid him on a corded bedstead, and by his side set singers, leaders of the dirge, who led the song of lamentation—they chanted the dirge, and thereat the women made lament. And amid these white-armed Andromache led the wailing, holding in her arms the while the head of man-slaying Hector: 24.724. / laid him on a corded bedstead, and by his side set singers, leaders of the dirge, who led the song of lamentation—they chanted the dirge, and thereat the women made lament. And amid these white-armed Andromache led the wailing, holding in her arms the while the head of man-slaying Hector: 24.725. / Husband, perished from out of life art thou, yet in thy youth, and leavest me a widow in thy halls; and thy son is still but a babe, the son born of thee and me in our haplessness; neither do I deem that he will come to manhood, for ere that shall this city be wasted utterly. For thou hast perished that didst watch thereover, 24.726. / Husband, perished from out of life art thou, yet in thy youth, and leavest me a widow in thy halls; and thy son is still but a babe, the son born of thee and me in our haplessness; neither do I deem that he will come to manhood, for ere that shall this city be wasted utterly. For thou hast perished that didst watch thereover, 24.727. / Husband, perished from out of life art thou, yet in thy youth, and leavest me a widow in thy halls; and thy son is still but a babe, the son born of thee and me in our haplessness; neither do I deem that he will come to manhood, for ere that shall this city be wasted utterly. For thou hast perished that didst watch thereover, 24.728. / Husband, perished from out of life art thou, yet in thy youth, and leavest me a widow in thy halls; and thy son is still but a babe, the son born of thee and me in our haplessness; neither do I deem that he will come to manhood, for ere that shall this city be wasted utterly. For thou hast perished that didst watch thereover, 24.729. / Husband, perished from out of life art thou, yet in thy youth, and leavest me a widow in thy halls; and thy son is still but a babe, the son born of thee and me in our haplessness; neither do I deem that he will come to manhood, for ere that shall this city be wasted utterly. For thou hast perished that didst watch thereover, 24.730. / thou that didst guard it, and keep safe its noble wives and little children. These, I ween, shall soon be riding upon the hollow ships, and I among them; and thou, my child, shalt follow with me to a place where thou shalt labour at unseemly tasks, toiling before the face of some ungentle master, or else some Achaean shall seize thee by the arm 24.731. / thou that didst guard it, and keep safe its noble wives and little children. These, I ween, shall soon be riding upon the hollow ships, and I among them; and thou, my child, shalt follow with me to a place where thou shalt labour at unseemly tasks, toiling before the face of some ungentle master, or else some Achaean shall seize thee by the arm 24.732. / thou that didst guard it, and keep safe its noble wives and little children. These, I ween, shall soon be riding upon the hollow ships, and I among them; and thou, my child, shalt follow with me to a place where thou shalt labour at unseemly tasks, toiling before the face of some ungentle master, or else some Achaean shall seize thee by the arm 24.733. / thou that didst guard it, and keep safe its noble wives and little children. These, I ween, shall soon be riding upon the hollow ships, and I among them; and thou, my child, shalt follow with me to a place where thou shalt labour at unseemly tasks, toiling before the face of some ungentle master, or else some Achaean shall seize thee by the arm 24.734. / thou that didst guard it, and keep safe its noble wives and little children. These, I ween, shall soon be riding upon the hollow ships, and I among them; and thou, my child, shalt follow with me to a place where thou shalt labour at unseemly tasks, toiling before the face of some ungentle master, or else some Achaean shall seize thee by the arm 24.735. / and hurl thee from the wall, a woeful death, being wroth for that Hector slew his brother haply, or his father, or his son, seeing that full many Achaeans at the hands of Hector have bitten the vast earth with their teeth; for nowise gentle was thy father in woeful war. 24.736. / and hurl thee from the wall, a woeful death, being wroth for that Hector slew his brother haply, or his father, or his son, seeing that full many Achaeans at the hands of Hector have bitten the vast earth with their teeth; for nowise gentle was thy father in woeful war. 24.737. / and hurl thee from the wall, a woeful death, being wroth for that Hector slew his brother haply, or his father, or his son, seeing that full many Achaeans at the hands of Hector have bitten the vast earth with their teeth; for nowise gentle was thy father in woeful war. 24.738. / and hurl thee from the wall, a woeful death, being wroth for that Hector slew his brother haply, or his father, or his son, seeing that full many Achaeans at the hands of Hector have bitten the vast earth with their teeth; for nowise gentle was thy father in woeful war. 24.739. / and hurl thee from the wall, a woeful death, being wroth for that Hector slew his brother haply, or his father, or his son, seeing that full many Achaeans at the hands of Hector have bitten the vast earth with their teeth; for nowise gentle was thy father in woeful war. 24.740. / Therefore the folk wail for him throughout the city, and grief unspeakable and sorrow hast thou brought upon thy parents, Hector; and for me beyond all others shall grievous woes be left. For at thy death thou didst neither stretch out thy hands to me from thy bed, nor speak to me any word of wisdom whereon 24.741. / Therefore the folk wail for him throughout the city, and grief unspeakable and sorrow hast thou brought upon thy parents, Hector; and for me beyond all others shall grievous woes be left. For at thy death thou didst neither stretch out thy hands to me from thy bed, nor speak to me any word of wisdom whereon 24.742. / Therefore the folk wail for him throughout the city, and grief unspeakable and sorrow hast thou brought upon thy parents, Hector; and for me beyond all others shall grievous woes be left. For at thy death thou didst neither stretch out thy hands to me from thy bed, nor speak to me any word of wisdom whereon 24.743. / Therefore the folk wail for him throughout the city, and grief unspeakable and sorrow hast thou brought upon thy parents, Hector; and for me beyond all others shall grievous woes be left. For at thy death thou didst neither stretch out thy hands to me from thy bed, nor speak to me any word of wisdom whereon 24.744. / Therefore the folk wail for him throughout the city, and grief unspeakable and sorrow hast thou brought upon thy parents, Hector; and for me beyond all others shall grievous woes be left. For at thy death thou didst neither stretch out thy hands to me from thy bed, nor speak to me any word of wisdom whereon 24.745. / I might have pondered night and day with shedding of tears. |
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3. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 240-242, 1001 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 76| 1001. μάλα γέ τοι τὸ μεγάλας ὑγιείας | 1001. Especially at least, of health that’s great |
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4. Euripides, Helen, 1219, 34, 583, 73, 875, 930, 33 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Steiner (2001) 54| 33. δίδωσι δ' οὐκ ἔμ', ἀλλ' ὁμοιώσας' ἐμοὶ | |
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| 5. Euripides, Hippolytus, 1022, 1079, 1286-1295, 1334-1337, 1391, 141, 1414, 142-146, 1460, 147-148, 179, 198, 273, 279-280, 416-418, 616, 84-86, 864-865, 925-926, 985, 1078 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Braund and Most (2004) 60; Steiner (2001) 54 |
| 6. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 1163-1171, 1322-1330, 1332-1337, 1331 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo (2022) 188, 189, 198 |
7. Herodotus, Histories, 5.92 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, dramas by\n, hippolytus Found in books: Csapo (2022) 187 | 5.92. These were the words of the Lacedaemonians, but their words were ill-received by the greater part of their allies. The rest then keeping silence, Socles, a Corinthian, said, ,“In truth heaven will be beneath the earth and the earth aloft above the heaven, and men will dwell in the sea and fishes where men dwelt before, now that you, Lacedaemonians, are destroying the rule of equals and making ready to bring back tyranny into the cities, tyranny, a thing more unrighteous and bloodthirsty than anything else on this earth. ,If indeed it seems to you to be a good thing that the cities be ruled by tyrants, set up a tyrant among yourselves first and then seek to set up such for the rest. As it is, however, you, who have never made trial of tyrants and take the greatest precautions that none will arise at Sparta, deal wrongfully with your allies. If you had such experience of that thing as we have, you would be more prudent advisers concerning it than you are now.” ,The Corinthian state was ordered in such manner as I will show.There was an oligarchy, and this group of men, called the Bacchiadae, held sway in the city, marrying and giving in marriage among themselves. Now Amphion, one of these men, had a crippled daughter, whose name was Labda. Since none of the Bacchiadae would marry her, she was wedded to Eetion son of Echecrates, of the township of Petra, a Lapith by lineage and of the posterity of Caeneus. ,When no sons were born to him by this wife or any other, he set out to Delphi to enquire concerning the matter of acquiring offspring. As soon as he entered, the Pythian priestess spoke these verses to him: quote type="oracle" l met="dact" Eetion,worthy of honor, no man honors you. /l l Labda is with child, and her child will be a millstone /l l Which will fall upon the rulers and will bring justice to Corinth. /l /quote ,This oracle which was given to Eetion was in some way made known to the Bacchiadae. The earlier oracle sent to Corinth had not been understood by them, despite the fact that its meaning was the same as the meaning of the oracle of Eetion, and it read as follows: quote type="oracle" l met="dact" An eagle in the rocks has conceived, and will bring forth a lion, /l l Strong and fierce. The knees of many will it loose. /l l This consider well, Corinthians, /l l You who dwell by lovely Pirene and the overhanging heights of Corinth. /l /quote ,This earlier prophecy had been unintelligible to the Bacchiadae, but as soon as they heard the one which was given to Eetion, they understood it at once, recognizing its similarity with the oracle of Eetion. Now understanding both oracles, they kept quiet but resolved to do away with the offspring of Eetion. Then, as soon as his wife had given birth, they sent ten men of their clan to the township where Eetion dwelt to kill the child. ,These men came to Petra and passing into Eetion's courtyard, asked for the child. Labda, knowing nothing of the purpose of their coming and thinking that they wished to see the baby out of affection for its father, brought it and placed it into the hands of one of them. Now they had planned on their way that the first of them who received the child should dash it to the ground. ,When, however, Labda brought and handed over the child, by divine chance it smiled at the man who took it. This he saw, and compassion prevented him from killing it. Filled with pity, he handed it to a second, and this man again to a third.In fact it passed from hand to hand to each of the ten, for none would make an end of it. ,They then gave the child back to its mother, and after going out, they stood before the door reproaching and upbraiding one another, but chiefly him who had first received it since he had not acted in accordance with their agreement. Finally they resolved to go in again and all have a hand in the killing. ,Fate, however, had decreed that Eetion's offspring should be the source of ills for Corinth, for Labda, standing close to this door, heard all this. Fearing that they would change their minds and that they would take and actually kill the child, she took it away and hid it where she thought it would be hardest to find, in a chest, for she knew that if they returned and set about searching they would seek in every place—which in fact they did. ,They came and searched, but when they did not find it, they resolved to go off and say to those who had sent them that they had carried out their orders. They then went away and said this. ,Eetion's son, however, grew up, and because of his escape from that danger, he was called Cypselus, after the chest. When he had reached manhood and was seeking a divination, an oracle of double meaning was given him at Delphi. Putting faith in this, he made an attempt on Corinth and won it. ,The oracle was as follows: quote type="oracle" l met="dact" That man is fortunate who steps into my house, /l l Cypselus, son of Eetion, the king of noble Corinth, /l l He himself and his children, but not the sons of his sons. /l /quote Such was the oracle. Cypselus, however, when he had gained the tyranny, conducted himself in this way: many of the Corinthians he drove into exile, many he deprived of their wealth, and by far the most he had killed. ,After a reign of thirty years, he died in the height of prosperity, and was succeeded by his son Periander. Now Periander was to begin with milder than his father, but after he had held converse by messenger with Thrasybulus the tyrant of Miletus, he became much more bloodthirsty than Cypselus. ,He had sent a herald to Thrasybulus and inquired in what way he would best and most safely govern his city. Thrasybulus led the man who had come from Periander outside the town, and entered into a sown field. As he walked through the corn, continually asking why the messenger had come to him from Corinth, he kept cutting off all the tallest ears of wheat which he could see, and throwing them away, until he had destroyed the best and richest part of the crop. ,Then, after passing through the place and speaking no word of counsel, he sent the herald away. When the herald returned to Corinth, Periander desired to hear what counsel he brought, but the man said that Thrasybulus had given him none. The herald added that it was a strange man to whom he had been sent, a madman and a destroyer of his own possessions, telling Periander what he had seen Thrasybulus do. ,Periander, however, understood what had been done, and perceived that Thrasybulus had counselled him to slay those of his townsmen who were outstanding in influence or ability; with that he began to deal with his citizens in an evil manner. Whatever act of slaughter or banishment Cypselus had left undone, that Periander brought to accomplishment. In a single day he stripped all the women of Corinth naked, because of his own wife Melissa. ,Periander had sent messengers to the Oracle of the Dead on the river Acheron in Thesprotia to enquire concerning a deposit that a friend had left, but Melissa, in an apparition, said that she would tell him nothing, nor reveal where the deposit lay, for she was cold and naked. The garments, she said, with which Periander had buried with her had never been burnt, and were of no use to her. Then, as evidence for her husband that she spoke the truth, she added that Periander had put his loaves into a cold oven. ,When this message was brought back to Periander (for he had had intercourse with the dead body of Melissa and knew her token for true), immediately after the message he made a proclamation that all the Corinthian women should come out into the temple of Hera. They then came out as to a festival, wearing their most beautiful garments, and Periander set his guards there and stripped them all alike, ladies and serving-women, and heaped all the clothes in a pit, where, as he prayed to Melissa, he burnt them. ,When he had done this and sent a second message, the ghost of Melissa told him where the deposit of the friend had been laid. “This, then, Lacedaimonians, is the nature of tyranny, and such are its deeds. ,We Corinthians marvelled greatly when we saw that you were sending for Hippias, and now we marvel yet more at your words to us. We entreat you earnestly in the name of the gods of Hellas not to establish tyranny in the cities, but if you do not cease from so doing and unrighteously attempt to bring Hippias back, be assured that you are proceeding without the Corinthians' consent.” |
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8. Euripides, Hecuba, 850-851 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Steiner (2001) 53| 851. ̔Εκάβη, δι' οἴκτου χεῖρά θ' ἱκεσίαν ἔχω, | |
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| 9. Euripides, Fragments, 1022, 1079, 1286-1295, 1334-1337, 1414, 1460, 497, 616, 864-865, 925-926, 985, 1078 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Braund and Most (2004) 60; Steiner (2001) 54 |
10. Euripides, Electra, 850-851 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Steiner (2001) 53| 851. πατρὸς παλαιοὶ δμῶες. οἳ δ', ἐπεὶ λόγων | |
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11. Euripides, Bacchae, 27-31 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 309| 31. Ζῆνʼ ἐξεκαυχῶνθʼ, ὅτι γάμους ἐψεύσατο. | |
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12. Euripides, Andromache, 1226-1228, 1230, 1229 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 239| 1229. δαίμων ὅδε τις λευκὴν αἰθέρα | |
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| 13. Hippocrates, The Aphorism, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
| 14. Hippocrates, The Sacred Disease, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan nan nan nan |
| 15. Euripides, Ion, 1166-1168, 1215-1228, 1523-1526, 595-606, 621-632, 898, 1527 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 309 |
16. Aristophanes, Wasps, 1038 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, works,, hippolytus Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 63| 1038. τοῖς ἠπιάλοις ἐπιχειρῆσαι πέρυσιν καὶ τοῖς πυρετοῖσιν, | |
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17. Aristophanes, Clouds, 173-174 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 236| 174. ἥσθην γαλεώτῃ καταχέσαντι Σωκράτους. | |
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18. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.65.10 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, dramas by\n, hippolytus Found in books: Csapo (2022) 187| 2.65.10. οἱ δὲ ὕστερον ἴσοι μᾶλλον αὐτοὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους ὄντες καὶ ὀρεγόμενοι τοῦ πρῶτος ἕκαστος γίγνεσθαι ἐτράποντο καθ’ ἡδονὰς τῷ δήμῳ καὶ τὰ πράγματα ἐνδιδόναι. | 2.65.10. With his successors it was different. More on a level with one another, and each grasping at supremacy, they ended by committing even the conduct of state affairs to the whims of the multitude. |
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| 19. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1051, 1350-1502, 1504-1851, 81-85, 98-99, 1503 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 366 |
| 20. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 141-143, 145-147, 91-94, 144 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2012) 62 |
| 21. Sophocles, Antigone, 605, 607-608, 606 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 366 |
| 22. Sophocles, Ajax, 1, 15-17, 2-3, 36-37, 4-7, 91-93, 14 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 237, 239, 366 |
| 23. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 349-351, 393-394, 446-449, 671, 714-718, 726-730, 713 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Csapo (2022) 187 |
| 24. Aristotle, Poetics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
| 25. Hyginus, Fabulae (Genealogiae), 47 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •hippolytus (euripides), and phaedra Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 607 |
26. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.225-3.227, 3.239 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, bacchae, hippolytus Found in books: Konig (2022) 154| 3.225. quosque referre mora est. Ea turba cupidine praedae 3.226. per rupes scopulosque adituque carentia saxa, 3.227. quaque est difficilis quaque est via nulla, sequuntur. 3.239. cervus habet, maestisque replet iuga nota querellis. | |
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27. Seneca The Younger, Phaedra, 151, 153, 157-159, 2, 22, 233-235, 362-363, 365-373, 4-5, 54, 597, 613-614, 69, 721, 734, 886-887, 891-892, 364 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bexley (2022) 184| 364. erumpit oculis ignis et lassae genae | |
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| 28. Suetonius, Augustus, 45 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, dramas by\n, hippolytus Found in books: Csapo (2022) 172, 175, 178, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193, 198 |
29. Apollodorus, Epitome, 1.18-1.19 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •hippolytus (euripides), and phaedra Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 607| 1.18. Φαίδρα δὲ γεννήσασα Θησεῖ δύο παιδία Ἀκάμαντα καὶ Δημοφῶντα ἐρᾷ 3 -- τοῦ ἐκ τῆς Ἀμαζόνος παιδὸς ἤγουν τοῦ Ἱππολύτου 4 -- καὶ δεῖται συνελθεῖν αὐτῇ. 5 -- ὁ δὲ μισῶν πάσας γυναῖκας 6 -- τὴν συνουσίαν ἔφυγεν. ἡ δὲ Φαίδρα, δείσασα μὴ τῷ πατρὶ διαβάλῃ, κατασχίσασα 7 -- τὰς τοῦ θαλάμου θύρας καὶ τὰς ἐσθῆτας σπαράξασα κατεψεύσατο Ἱππολύτου βίαν. 1.19. Θησεὺς δὲ πιστεύσας ηὔξατο Ποσειδῶνι Ἱππόλυτον διαφθαρῆναι· ὁ δέ, θέοντος αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἅρματος 8 -- καὶ παρὰ τῇ θαλάσσῃ ὀχουμένου, ταῦρον ἀνῆκεν ἐκ τοῦ κλύδωνος. πτοηθέντων δὲ τῶν ἵππων κατηρράχθη 1 -- τὸ ἅρμα. ἐμπλακεὶς δὲ ταῖς ἡνίαις 2 -- Ἱππόλυτος συρόμενος ἀπέθανε. γενομένου δὲ τοῦ ἔρωτος περιφανοῦς ἑαυτὴν ἀνήρτησε Φαίδρα. | 1.18. And Phaedra, after she had borne two children, Acamas and Demophon, to Theseus, fell in love with the son he had by the Amazon, to wit, Hippolytus, and besought him to lie with her. Howbeit, he fled from her embraces, because he hated all women. But Phaedra, fearing that he might accuse her to his father, cleft open the doors of her bed-chamber, rent her garments, and falsely charged Hippolytus with an assault. 1.19. Theseus believed her and prayed to Poseidon that Hippolytus might perish. So, when Hippolytus was riding in his chariot and driving beside the sea, Poseidon sent up a bull from the surf, and the horses were frightened, the chariot dashed in pieces, and Hippolytus, entangled in the reins, was dragged to death. And when her passion was made public, Phaedra hanged herself. The guilty passion of Phaedra for her stepson Hippolytus and the tragic end of the innocent youth, done to death by the curses of his father Theseus, are the subject of two extant tragedies, the Hippolytus of Euripides, and the Hippolytus or Phaedra of Seneca. Compare also Diod. 4.62 ; Paus. 1.22 , Paus. 1.22.1ff. , Paus. 2.32.1-4 ; Scholiast on Hom. Od. xi.321 , citing Asclepiades as his authority; Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 1329 ; Tzetzes, Chiliades vi.504ff. ; Scholiast on Plat. Laws 9, 931b ; Ov. Met. 15.497ff. ; Ovid, Her. iv ; Hyginus, Fab. 47 ; Serv. Verg. A. 6.445 and vii.761 ; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 17, 117ff. (First Vatican Mythographer 46; Second Vatican Mythographer 128) . Sophocles composed a tragedy Phaedra , of which some fragments remain, but little or nothing is known of the plot. See The Fragments of Sophocles , ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. ii. pp. 294ff. Euripides wrote two tragedies on the same subject, both under the title of Hippolytus : it is the second which has come down to us. In the first Hippolytus the poet, incensed at the misconduct of his wife, painted the character and behaviour of Phaedra in much darker colours than in the second, where he has softened the portrait, representing the unhappy woman as instigated by the revengeful Aphrodite, but resisting the impulse of her fatal passion to the last, refusing to tell her love to Hippolytus, and dying by her own hand rather than endure the shame of its betrayal by a blabbing nurse. This version of the story is evidently not the one here followed by Apollodorus, according to whom Phaedra made criminal advances to her stepson. On the other hand the version of Apollodorus agrees in this respect with that of the Scholiast on Hom. Od. xi.321 : both writers may have followed the first Hippolytus of Euripides. As to that lost play, of which some fragments have come down to us, see the Life of Euripides in Westermann's Vitarum Scriptores Graeci Minores , p. 137 ; the Greek Argument to the extant Hippolytus of Euripides vol. i.163, ed. Paley ; TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 491ff. Apollodorus says nothing as to the scene of the tragedy. Euripides in his extant play lays it at Troezen , whither Theseus had gone with Phaedra to be purified for the slaughter of the sons of Pallas ( Eur. Hipp. 34ff. ). Pausanias agrees with this account, and tells us that the graves of the unhappy pair were to be seen beside each other at Troezen , near a myrtle-tree, of which the pierced leaves still bore the print of Phaedra's brooch. The natural beauty of the spot is in keeping with the charm which the genius of Euripides has thrown over the romantic story of unhappy love and death. of Troezen itself only a few insignificant ruins remain, overgrown with weeds and dispersed amid a wilderness of bushes. But hard by are luxuriant groves of lemon and orange with here and there tall cypresses towering like dark spires above them, while behind this belt of verdure rise wooded hills, and across the blue waters of the nearly landlocked bay lies Calauria, the sacred island of Poseidon, its peaks veiled in the sombre green of the pines. A different place and time were assigned by Seneca to the tragedy. According to him, the events took place at Athens , and Phaedra conceived her passion for Hippolytus and made advances to him during the absence of her husband, who had gone down to the nether world with Pirithous and was there detained for four years ( Eur. Hipp.835ff. ). Diodorus Siculus agrees with Euripides in laying the scene of the tragedy at Troezen , and he agrees with Apollodorus in saying that at the time when Phaedra fell in love with Hippolytus she was the mother of two sons, Acamas and Demophon, by Theseus. In his usual rationalistic vein Diodorus omits all mention of Poseidon and the sea-bull, and ascribes the accident which befell Hippolytus to the mental agitation he felt at his stepmother's calumny. |
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30. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.5 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •euripides, dramas by\n, hippolytus Found in books: Csapo (2022) 172, 175, 178, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193, 198 | 59.5. 1. This was the kind of emperor into whose hands the Romans were then delivered. Hence the deeds of Tiberius, though they were felt to have been very harsh, were nevertheless as far superior to those of Gaius as the deeds of Augustus were to those of his successor.,2. For Tiberius always kept the power in his own hands and used others as agents for carrying out his wishes; whereas Gaius was ruled by the charioteers and gladiators, and was the slave of the actors and others connected with the stage. Indeed, he always kept Apelles, the most famous of the tragedians of that day, with him even in public.,3. Thus he by himself and they by themselves did without let or hindrance all that such persons would naturally dare to do when given power. Everything that pertained to their art he arranged and settled on the slightest pretext in the most lavish manner, and he compelled the praetors and the consuls to do the same, so that almost every day some performance of the kind was sure to be given.,4. At first he was but a spectator and listener at these and would take sides for or against various performers like one of the crowd; and one time, when he was vexed with those of opposing tastes, he did not go to the spectacle. But as time went on, he came to imitate, and to contend in many events,,5. driving chariots, fighting as a gladiator, giving exhibitions of pantomimic dancing, and acting in tragedy. So much for his regular behaviour. And once he sent an urgent summons at night to the leading men of the senate, as if for some important deliberation, and then danced before them. |
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| 31. Pollux, Onomasticon, 4.128-4.130 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •hippolytus (euripides), and the mechane Found in books: Jouanna (2018) 236 |
| 32. Agathon, Thyestes, None Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
| 33. Agathon, Telephus, None Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
| 34. Agathon, Alcmeon, None Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
| 35. Astydamas Junior, Hector, None Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
| 36. Theodectas, Tydeus, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 58 |
| 37. Theodectas, Philoctetes, None Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 58 |
| 38. Agathon, Aërop?, None Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
| 39. Anon., Tragica Adespota, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
| 40. Epigraphy, I. Thespiae, 358 Tagged with subjects: •euripides, dramas by\n, hippolytus Found in books: Csapo (2022) 172, 175, 178, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193, 198 |
| 41. Euripides, Trgf Fr., 360.1-360.4 Tagged with subjects: •euripides, dramas by\n, hippolytus Found in books: Csapo (2022) 192 |
| 42. Cratinus, Pcg Fr., 73 Tagged with subjects: •euripides, dramas by\n, hippolytus Found in books: Csapo (2022) 193 |
| 43. Papyri, P.Sorb., 2252 Tagged with subjects: •euripides, hippolytus Found in books: Liapis and Petrides (2019) 246 |
