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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1322-1330
ἅπαξ ἔτʼ εἰπεῖν ῥῆσιν οὐ θρῆνον θέλω Yet once for all, to speak a speech, I fain am:
ἐμὸν τὸν αὐτῆς. ἡλίῳ δʼ ἐπεύχομαι No dirge, mine for myself! The sun I pray to
πρὸς ὕστατον φῶς τοῖς ἐμοῖς τιμαόροις Fronting his last light! — to my own avengers —
ἐχθροῖς φονεῦσι τοῖς ἐμοῖς τίνειν ὁμοῦ That from my hateful slayers they exact too
δούλης θανούσης, εὐμαροῦς χειρώματος. Pay for the dead slave — easy-managed hand’s work! CHOROS.
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1. Homer, Iliad, 1.86, 3.5 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1.86. /for by Apollo, dear to Zeus, to whom you, Calchas, pray when you reveal oracles to the Danaans, no one, while I live and have sight on the earth, shall lay heavy hands on you beside the hollow ships, no one of the whole host of the Danaans 3.5. /Now when they were marshalled, the several companies with their captains, the Trojans came on with clamour and with a cry like birds, even as the clamour of cranes ariseth before the face of heaven, when they flee from wintry storms and measureless rain 3.5. /and with clamour fly toward the streams of Ocean, bearing slaughter and death to Pigmy men, and in the early dawn they offer evil battle. But the Achaeans came on in silence, breathing fury, eager at heart to bear aid each man to his fellow.
2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1036-1321, 1323-1330, 1343, 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, Seven Against Thebes, 588, 587 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 587. q rend=
6. Aristophanes, Knights, 768, 767 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 767. εἰ δέ σε μισῶ καὶ μὴ περὶ σοῦ μάχομαι μόνος ἀντιβεβηκώς
7. Euripides, Hippolytus, 1417-1425, 713, 1025 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1025. Now by Zeus, the god of oaths, and by the earth, whereon we stand, I swear to thee I never did lay hand upon thy wife nor would have wished to, or have harboured such a thought Slay me, ye gods! rob me of name and honour, from home and city cast me forth, a wandering exile o’er the earth!
8. Euripides, Ion, 995 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 995. That Athena wears its skin upon her corslet. Old Servant
9. Euripides, Medea, 161-162, 168-170, 746-747, 160 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 160. (within). Great Themis, and husband καὶ πότνι’ Ἄρτεμι , corrupt and pointless. The reading here adopted by the translator is καὶ πόσις, ἄρτι με , suggested by Munro (Journal of Philology, No. 22, p. 275) πόσις = Zeus. of Themis, behold what I am suffering now, though I did bind that accursed one, my husband, by strong oaths to me? O, to see him and his bride some day brought to utter destruction, they and their house with them
10. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1006 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1006. No, by Zeus and all his stars, by Ares, god of blood, who established the Sown-men that sprung one day from earth as lords of this land! I will go, and standing on the topmost battlements
11. Herodotus, Histories, 3.11 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 3.11. When the Persians had crossed the waterless country and encamped near the Egyptians intending to engage them, the Egyptian mercenaries, Greeks and Carians, devised a plan to punish Phanes, angered at him for leading a foreign army into Egypt . ,Phanes had left sons in Egypt ; these they brought to the camp, into their father's sight, and set a great bowl between the two armies; then they brought the sons one by one and cut their throats over the bowl. ,When all the sons had been slaughtered, they poured wine and water into the bowl, and the mercenaries drank this and then gave battle. The fighting was fierce, and many of both armies fell; but at last the Egyptians were routed.
12. Plato, Critias, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 119e. hunted after the bulls with staves and nooses but with no weapon of iron; and whatsoever bull they captured they led up to the pillar and cut its throat over the top of the pillar, raining down blood on the inscription. And inscribed upon the pillar, besides the laws, was an oath which invoked mighty curses upon them that disobeyed. Crit. When, then, they had done sacrifice according to their laws and were consecrating
13. 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 ;
14. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
15. Sophocles, Electra, 1240-1242, 1239 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
16. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1324 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
17. 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.
18. Lucan, Pharsalia, 5.147-5.196 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
19. Plutarch, On The Obsolescence of Oracles, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
20. Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
21. Iamblichus, Concerning The Mysteries, 3.4-3.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
22. 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

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
absent from comedy and informal,oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
aegeus and medea	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
aegisthus	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
aeschylus,convergence of prophecy and reality	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 71, 72
aeschylus,oresteia	Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80; Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
aeschylus,rapport of cassandra with chorus	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 71, 73
aeschylus,scribbles of human narrative	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 72, 73
aeschylus,speech vs. music	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 73
agamemnon	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
amphiaraos	Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 230
anagnōrisis (recognition)	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
apollo	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
aristotle,on anagnōrisis	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
artemis,oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
athena the gorgon-slayer,oaths,invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
battle,pre-battle sacrifice	Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 230
blood libations,in oath-taking	Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 230
caesar,julius	Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
cassandra,agency in death	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 71
cassandra	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196; Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
cato,the younger	Bowditch (2001), Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination, 80
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	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51; Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
creusa (ion)	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
death and temporality,kairos (the decisive time) and chronos	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
death and temporality	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
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
earth (gaia/ge),oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
east-west trajectories,of aeschylus agamemnon	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 72
east-west trajectories,suns motion	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 72
electra	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
epithets,significance of divine	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
erinyes,medea as erinys	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
fire imagery,agamemnon (aeschylus)	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 72
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
gorgon-slayer (athena),oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
guilt,inherited,hades (underworld)	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
helios (sun),oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
hippolytus,other oaths sworn by	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
iamblichus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
iphigeneia	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
jason (medea),as perjurer	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
kairos (the decisive time),death/immortality and	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
khernips	Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 230
knox,bernard	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 73
libations	Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 230
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
medea,and jasons perjury	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
medea,oath with aegeus	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
menoeceus	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
music,furies singing	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 73
neoplatonism	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 196
oath sacrifice	Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 230
oedipus	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
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
priestesses oaths	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
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
pylades	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
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
revenge curses	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
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
taplin,oliver	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 73
telos	Pillinger (2019), Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature, 73
themis	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
time	Goldhill (2022), The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity, 51
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
truth,and reciprocity	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 196
wine,in oathtaking'	Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 230
zeus,oaths invoking	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28
zeus horkios (guardian of oaths)	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 28