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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1254


καὶ μὴν ἄγαν γʼ Ἕλληνʼ ἐπίσταμαι φάτιν. ΧορόςFor Puthian oracles, thy speech, and hard too. KASSANDRA


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1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1036-1253, 1255-1330, 1035 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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

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

4. 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.
5. Aristophanes, Birds, 959-990, 958 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

958. αὖθις σὺ περιχώρει λαβὼν τὴν χέρνιβα.
6. Aristophanes, Knights, 1001-1111, 194-209, 997-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1000. καὶ νὴ Δί' ἔτι γέ μοὔστι κιβωτὸς πλέα.
7. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 763-780, 762 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

762. ὦ δαιμόνιαι παύσασθε τῶν τερατευμάτων.
8. Aristophanes, Peace, 1024-1126, 1023 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1023. σέ τοι θύρασι χρὴ μένοντα τοίνυν
9. Plato, Phaedo, 69c (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, 71e-72a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

11. 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.
12. 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
13. Lucan, Pharsalia, 5.147-5.196 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

14. Plutarch, Against Colotes, 1118c (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

15. Plutarch, On The Obsolescence of Oracles, 438a, 438b, 431e (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
16. Plutarch, On The E At Delphi, 386e (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

17. Plutarch, On Talkativeness, 511b (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

18. Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, 397a (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

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



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aegisthus Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
aeschylus, cassandras mastery of greek Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 65, 66
aeschylus, convergence of prophecy and reality Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 66
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) 66
apollo Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
aristophanes Edelmann-Singer et al., Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2020) 124
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, and cassandras too much greek Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 65, 66
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
cicero Edelmann-Singer et al., Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2020) 124
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
delphi Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
dialectic Edelmann-Singer et al., Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2020) 124
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 knowledge Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 66
excess, of sense Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 65
fraenkel, eduard Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 66
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
gods (egyptian, greek, and roman), apollon Edelmann-Singer et al., Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2020) 124
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
miscommunication, foreignness and' Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 65
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
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
pax romana Edelmann-Singer et al., Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2020) 124
pindar Edelmann-Singer et al., Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2020) 124
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; Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 65, 66
republic, the, representations of its fall Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 80
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
theon Edelmann-Singer et al., Sceptic and Believer in Ancient Mediterranean Religions (2020) 124
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