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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1284
ὀμώμοται γὰρ ὅρκος ἐκ θεῶν μέγας Him shall bring hither his fallen sire’s prostration.

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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 784, 400 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 400. Thoe and fair Dione and Plexaura
2. Homer, Iliad, 15.38, 19.113 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 15.38. /and she spake and addressed him with winged words:Hereto now be Earth my witness and the broad Heaven above, and the down-flowing water of Styx, which is the greatest and most dread oath for the blessed gods, and thine own sacred head, and the couch of us twain, couch of our wedded love 19.113. /whoso this day shall fall between a woman's feet, even one of those men who are of the blood of thy stock.’ So spake she; howbeit Zeus in no wise marked her craftiness, but sware a great oath, and therewithal was blinded sore.
3. Homer, Odyssey, 5.178, 5.185-5.186, 10.299, 10.343 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
4. Homeric Hymns, To Demeter, 260-261, 259 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) 259. The Cutter or witchcraft bring him distre
5. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1036-1283, 1285-1330, 1566-1576, 650, 1035 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1035. εἴσω κομίζου καὶ σύ, Κασάνδραν λέγω 1035. Take thyself in, thou too — I say, Kassandra!
6. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 559, 908, 558 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 558. θανόντες, καὶ Λοξίας ἐφήμισεν
7. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 127, 892, 1044 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1044. σπονδαὶ δʼ ἐς τὸ πᾶν ἐκ μετοίκων 1044. Peace endures for all time between Pallas’ citizens and these new dwellers here.
8. 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.
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. 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, 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
15. Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
16. 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	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
apollo, oaths sworn by	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
apollo	Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
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; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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
clytaemestra, oaths sworn by	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
clytemnestra	Park, Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus (2023) 196
conspiratorial oaths	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
daimones	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
delphi	Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
demeter, oaths sworn by	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
demophoön (h. dem.)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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
erinyes	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
fire swears oath	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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
great oath of the gods (megas, horkos)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
great oath of the gods (megas horkos)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
horkos, gods)'	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
hypnos (sleep)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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
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
neoptolemus	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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
sea, swears oath	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
sibyl	Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 196
sleep (hypnos)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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
toil, oaths sworn by	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 204
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