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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1224


λέοντʼ ἄναλκιν ἐν λέχει στρωφώμενονLion ignoble, on the bed that wallows


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 124 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

124. Good things, dividing their prosperity
2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1036-1223, 1225-1330, 1335, 1340, 1343-1371, 1625, 1035 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1035. εἴσω κομίζου καὶ σύ, Κασάνδραν λέγω 1035. Take thyself in, thou too — I say, Kassandra!
3. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 559, 908, 558 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

558. θανόντες, καὶ Λοξίας ἐφήμισεν
4. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 892 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 641-686, 640 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

640. οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅπως ὑμῖν ἀπιστῆσαί με χρή 640. I do not know how to refuse you. You shall learn in truthful speech all that you would like to know. Yet I am ashamed to tell about the storm of calamity sent by Heaven, of the marring of my form, and of the source from which it swooped upon me, wretched that I am.
6. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

69c. from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification. And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in the mysteries, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few ;
7. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

8. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 40 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Horace, Odes, 2.1, 2.1.17-2.1.18, 2.1.21-2.1.24, 2.1.29-2.1.32 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.1. 1. Now the necessity which Archelaus was under of taking a journey to Rome was the occasion of new disturbances; for when he had mourned for his father seven days, and had given a very expensive funeral feast to the multitude (which custom is the occasion of poverty to many of the Jews, because they are forced to feast the multitude; for if anyone omits it, he is not esteemed a holy person), he put on a white garment, and went up to the temple 2.1. And, indeed, at the feast of unleavened bread, which was now at hand, and is by the Jews called the Passover, and used to be celebrated with a great number of sacrifices, an innumerable multitude of the people came out of the country to worship; some of these stood in the temple bewailing the Rabbins [that had been put to death], and procured their sustece by begging, in order to support their sedition. 2.1. but after this family distribution, he gave between them what had been bequeathed to him by Herod, which was a thousand talents, reserving to himself only some inconsiderable presents, in honor of the deceased.
10. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.45-6.50 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6.45. To shape thy fall, and twice they strove in vain. 6.46. Aeneas long the various work would scan; 6.47. But now Achates comes, and by his side 6.48. Deiphobe, the Sibyl, Glaucus' child. 6.49. Thus to the prince she spoke : 6.50. “Is this thine hour
11. Lucan, Pharsalia, 5.147-5.196 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

12. Plutarch, On The Obsolescence of Oracles, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

431e. For if the souls which have been severed from a body, or have had no part with one at all, are demigods according to you and the divine Hesiod, Holy dwellers on earth and the guardian spirits of mortals, why deprive souls in bodies of that power by virtue of which the demigods possess the natural faculty of knowing and revealing future events before they happen? For it is not likely that any power or portion accrues to souls when they have left the body, if they did not possess them before; but the souls always possess them; only they possess them to a slight degree while conjoined with the body, some of them being completely imperceptible and hidden, others weak and dim, and about as ineffectual and slow in operation as person
13. Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

14. Seneca The Younger, Agamemnon, 868-871, 881-903, 867 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

15. Iamblichus, Concerning The Mysteries, 3.4-3.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)



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abradatas (cyropaedia) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
aegisthus Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
aeschylus, agamemnon Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
aeschylus, oresteia Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
apollo Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
atreus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
autobiography, autobiographical Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 136
caesar, julius Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
cassandra Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196; Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135, 136; Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
cato, the younger Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
choral poetry, and the posture of the vates Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
chorus of choephori Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
chorus of suppliants Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
civil wars, as subject of poetry Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
clytemnestra Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
cowardice (deilia) personified Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
darkness (skotos), oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
deilia (cowardice) personified Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
delphi Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
divination Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
drys (at priene) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
electra Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
friendship as oath witness Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
genre, historiography Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
genre, history as tragedy Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
iamblichus Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
io Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135, 136
leaping Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 136
literature, greek, ancient Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135, 136
liver Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
love as oath witness Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
lucan Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
narrative, dramatic Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135
narrative, fragmented Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135
neoplatonism Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
non-linear Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135, 136
oak (at priene), oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
oracles Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
orestes Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
pantheia (cyropaedia) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
philia (friendship) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
philia (friendship) as oath witness Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
plato Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
platonic Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
plutarch Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
pollio, asinius, and historiography Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
praxagora (ecclesiazusae) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
priene Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
prophet Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
pseudos Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
public eye, in senecas tragedies Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
pythia Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
republic, the, representations of its fall Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
seneca, atreus in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, audience of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, cassandra in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, chorus in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, rulers and ruled in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, rulers in Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, thyestes Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, tragedies of Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca, works agamemnon Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
seneca Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
sibyl Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
soul Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
temporality Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135
thyestes Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116
tragedy, aeschylean allusions Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
tragedy, aristotelian principles of Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
tragedy, as vision of history Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
tragedy, attic/greek Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135, 136
trojan war Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 100
truth, and reciprocity Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
volunteered oaths, war-dead as oath witnesses' Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 116