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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1248

ἀλλʼ οὔτι παιὼν τῷδʼ ἐπιστατεῖ λόγῳ. Χορός

Nay, if the thing be near: but never be it! KASSANDRA.

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

18 results

1. Homeric Hymns, To Apollo And The Muses, 517 (8th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE)

517. From Crete to Pylos (we’re a Cretan race).

2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1036-1247, 1249-1330, 146, 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, 62 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

62. ἰατρόμαντις δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ τερασκόπος

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. Aristophanes, Birds, 584 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

584. εἶθ' ὅ γ' ̓Απόλλων ἰατρός γ' ὢν ἰάσθω: μισθοφορεῖ δέ.

7. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 407-408, 11 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

11. ἰατρὸς ὢν καὶ μάντις, ὥς φασιν, σοφὸς

8. Euripides, Andromache, 900 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

900. ̔Ελένη κατ' οἴκους πατρί: μηδὲν ἀγνόει. 900. ὦ Φοῖβ' ἀκέστορ, πημάτων δοίης λύσιν.

9. 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 ;

10. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

11. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 68-72, 154 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

12. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 221 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

221. Quickly it wheels me round in Bacchus’s race! Oh, oh, Paean! Look, dear lady! All is taking shape, plain to see, before your gaze. Deianeira:

13. 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.

14. 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

15. Lucan, Pharsalia, 5.147-5.196 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

16. 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

17. Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

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

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aegisthus	Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
aeschylus, oresteia	Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
aeschylus, rapport of cassandra with chorus	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 63, 64
aeschylus, relationship of cassandra with apollo	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 63, 64
apollo, and cassandra myth	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 63, 64
apollo, in cassandras speech	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 63, 64
apollo, oracle of	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
apollo	Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
asclepius, oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
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, on past events	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 63
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, witness and validation role	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 63, 64
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
cleinias (the laws)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
clytemnestra	Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
delphi, oracle at	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
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
electra	Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
excess, of sense	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 64
foreignness	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 63
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
hygieia (health), oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
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
lucan	Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
magnesia (platonic)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
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
omnumi (i swear)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
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) 374
panacea, oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
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
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
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
sanctity, ways of increasing	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
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
technē (skill)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 374
telos'	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 64
temporality	Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach, Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond (2021) 135
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
truth, and reciprocity	Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196