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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1288-1304


πράξασαν ὡς ἔπραξεν, οἳ δʼ εἷλον πόλινThus by the judgment of the gods are faring.


οὕτως ἀπαλλάσσουσιν ἐν θεῶν κρίσειI go, will suffer, will submit to dying!


ἰοῦσα πράξω· τλήσομαι τὸ κατθανεῖν.But, Haides’ gates — these same I call, I speak to


Ἅιδου πύλας δὲ τάσδʼ ἐγὼ προσεννέπω·And pray that on an opportune blow chancing


ἐπεύχομαι δὲ καιρίας πληγῆς τυχεῖνWithout a struggle, — blood the calm death bringing


ὡς ἀσφάδαστος, αἱμάτων εὐθνησίμωνIn easy outflow, — I this eye may close up! CHOROS.
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ὦ πολλὰ μὲν τάλαινα, πολλὰ δʼ αὖ σοφὴO much unhappy, but, again, much learned


γύναι, μακρὰν ἔτεινας. εἰ δʼ ἐτητύμωςWoman, long hast thou outstretched! But if truly


μόρον τὸν αὑτῆς οἶσθα, πῶς θεηλάτουThou knowest thine own fate, how comes that, like to


βοὸς δίκην πρὸς βωμὸν εὐτόλμως πατεῖς; ΚασάνδραA god-led steer, to altar bold thou treadest? KASSANDRA.


οὐκ ἔστʼ ἄλυξις, οὔ, ξένοι, χρόνον πλέω. ΧορόςThere’s no avoidance, — strangers, no some time more! CHOROS.


ὁ δʼ ὕστατός γε τοῦ χρόνου πρεσβεύεται, ΚασάνδραHe last is, anyhow, by time advantaged. KASSANDRA.


ἥκει τόδʼ ἦμαρ· σμικρὰ κερδανῶ φυγῇ. ΧορόςIt comes, the day: I shall by flight gain little. CHOROS.


ἀλλʼ ἴσθι τλήμων οὖσʼ ἀπʼ εὐτόλμου φρενός. ΚασάνδραBut know thou patient art from thy brave spirit! KASSANDRA.


οὐδεὶς ἀκούει ταῦτα τῶν εὐδαιμόνων. ΧορόςSuch things hears no one of the happy-fortuned. CHOROS.


ἀλλʼ εὐκλεῶς τοι κατθανεῖν χάρις βροτῷ. ΚασάνδραBut gloriously to die — for man is grace, sure. KASSANDRA.


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

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1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1036-1287, 1289-1330, 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. 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 ;
6. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

7. Horace, Odes, 2.1, 2.1.17-2.1.18, 2.1.21 (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.
8. Lucan, Pharsalia, 5.147-5.196 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

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

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

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

12. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.45-6.50

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


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aegisthus Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
aeschylus,oresteia Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
apollo Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
autobiography,autobiographical Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 136
caesar,julius Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
cassandra,curse of Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
cassandra,fate of Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
cassandra,her death as closure Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83, 84
cassandra Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196; Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135, 136; Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196; Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83, 84
cato,the younger Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
children of thyestes Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
choral poetry,and the posture of the vates Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
chorus of choephori Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
chorus of suppliants Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
civil wars,as subject of poetry Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
clytemnestra Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
curse Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
death as closure Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83, 84
delphi Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
divination Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
electra Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
fate Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
genre,,historiography Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
genre,,history as tragedy Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
hades,gates of Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
hades,judgment of Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
hades,realm of Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 83
iamblichus Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
io Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135, 136
leaping Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 136
literature,greek,ancient Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135, 136
liver Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
lucan Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
narrative,dramatic Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135
narrative,fragmented Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135
neoplatonism Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
non-linear Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135, 136
oracles Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
orestes Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
plato Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
platonic Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
plutarch Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
pollio,asinius,and historiography Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
prophet Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
pseudos Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
pythia Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
republic,the,representations of its fall Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
sibyl Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
soul Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
temporality Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135
tragedy,aeschylean allusions Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
tragedy,aristotelian principles of Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
tragedy,as vision of history Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
tragedy,attic/greek Gianvittorio-Ungar and Schlapbach (2021), Choreonarratives: Dancing Stories in Greek and Roman Antiquity and Beyond, 135, 136
truth,and reciprocity' Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196