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Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 228-247


λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρῴουςPrayings and callings


παρʼ οὐδὲν αἰῶ τε παρθένειονOf these, and of the virgin-age, —


ἔθεντο φιλόμαχοι βραβῆς.Captains heart-set on war to wage!


φράσεν δʼ ἀόζοις πατὴρ μετʼ εὐχὰνHis ministrants, vows done, the father bade —


δίκαν χιμαίρας ὕπερθε βωμοῦKid-like, above the altar, swathed in pall


πέπλοισι περιπετῆ παντὶ θυμῷ προνωπῆTake her — lift high, and have no fear at all


nanHead-downward, and the fair mouth’s guard


λαβεῖν ἀέρδην, στόματόςAnd frontage hold, — press hard


τε καλλιπρῴρου φυλακᾷ κατασχεῖνFrom utterance a curse against the House
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βίᾳ χαλινῶν τʼ ἀναύδῳ μένει.By dint of bit-violence bridling speech.


κρόκου βαφὰς δʼ ἐς πέδον χέουσαAnd as to ground her saffron-vest she shed


ἔβαλλʼ ἕκαστον θυτήρ-She smote the sacrificers all and each


ων ἀπʼ ὄμματος βέλειWith arrow sweet and piteous


ων ἀπʼ ὄμματος βέλειFrom the eye only sped, —


φιλοίκτῳ, πρέπουσά θʼ ὡς ἐν γραφαῖς, προσεννέπεινSignificant of will to use a word


φιλοίκτῳ, πρέπουσά θʼ ὡς ἐν γραφαῖς, προσεννέπεινJust as in pictures: since, full many a time


θέλουσʼ, ἐπεὶ πολλάκιςIn her sire’s guest-hall, by the well-heaped board


πατρὸς κατʼ ἀνδρῶνας εὐτραπέζουςHad she made music, — lovingly with chime


ἔμελψεν, ἁγνᾷ δʼ ἀταύρωτος αὐδᾷ πατρὸςOf her chaste voice, that unpolluted thing


φίλου τριτόσπονδον εὔ-Honoured the third libation, — paian that should bring


ποτμον παιῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα— ΧορόςGood fortune to the sire she loved so well.


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

18 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 19.86-19.88 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

19.86. /Full often have the Achaeans spoken unto me this word, and were ever fain to chide me; howbeit it is not I that am at fault, but Zeus and Fate and Erinys, that walketh in darkness, seeing that in the midst of the place of gathering they cast upon my soul fierce blindness on that day, when of mine own arrogance I took from Achilles his prize. 19.87. /Full often have the Achaeans spoken unto me this word, and were ever fain to chide me; howbeit it is not I that am at fault, but Zeus and Fate and Erinys, that walketh in darkness, seeing that in the midst of the place of gathering they cast upon my soul fierce blindness on that day, when of mine own arrogance I took from Achilles his prize. 19.88. /Full often have the Achaeans spoken unto me this word, and were ever fain to chide me; howbeit it is not I that am at fault, but Zeus and Fate and Erinys, that walketh in darkness, seeing that in the midst of the place of gathering they cast upon my soul fierce blindness on that day, when of mine own arrogance I took from Achilles his prize.
2. Homer, Odyssey, 6.102-6.103 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 105-144, 146, 150-151, 160-227, 229-247, 250-251, 65, 67-71, 104 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

104. κύριός εἰμι θροεῖν ὅδιον κράτος αἴσιον ἀνδρῶν 104. Empowered am I to sing
4. Aeschylus, Persians, 10, 100-109, 11, 110-119, 12, 120-129, 13, 130-139, 14-19, 2, 20-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-59, 6, 60-69, 7, 70-79, 8, 80-89, 9, 90-99, 1 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. Τάδε μὲν Περσῶν τῶν οἰχομένων 1. Here we are, the faithful Council of the Persians, who have gone to the land of placeName key=
5. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 767-791, 766 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

766. τελειᾶν γὰρ παλαιφάτων ἀρᾶν 766. For the compensation is heavy when curses uttered long ago are fulfilled, and once the deadly curse has come into existence, it does not pass away. When the fortune of seafaring merchants has grown too great
6. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 503-516, 502 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

502. ἑτέραν δ' ἐγᾦδ' ἣ 'φασκεν ὠδίνειν γυνὴ
7. Euripides, Electra, 1125-1131, 1178-1184, 1190-1205, 1207-1226, 1244-1246, 1250-1253, 1262-1263, 1273-1292, 1351-1355, 25, 253-259, 26, 260-261, 27-32, 322, 33-48, 481, 49-53, 600, 645, 677, 683, 778-843, 985-987, 1124 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1124. ἤκουσας, οἶμαι, τῶν ἐμῶν λοχευμάτων: 1124. You have heard, I suppose, that I have given birth;
8. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 408-409, 407 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

407. πόλλ': ἓν δὲ πᾶσι γνῶμα ταὐτὸν ἐμπρέπει:
9. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 19 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Herodotus, Histories, 5.7 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5.7. These are most notable of their usages. They worship no gods but Ares, Dionysus, and Artemis. Their princes, however, unlike the rest of their countrymen, worship Hermes above all gods and swear only by him, claiming him for their ancestor.
11. Plato, Theaetetus, 149c (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

149c. THEAET. Very likely. SOC. Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregt and who are not? THEAET. Certainly. SOC. And furthermore, the midwives, by means of drug
12. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 2.707-2.709 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

2.707. κοῦρος ἐὼν ἔτι γυμνός, ἔτι πλοκάμοισι γεγηθώς. 2.708. ἱλήκοις· αἰεί τοι, ἄναξ, ἄτμητοι ἔθειραι 2.709. αἰὲν ἀδήλητοι· τὼς γὰρ θέμις. οἰόθι δʼ αὐτὴ
13. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 1.49 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.49. Yet their form is not corporeal, but only resembles bodily substance; it does not contain blood, but the semblance of blood. "These discoveries of Epicurus are so acute in themselves and so subtly expressed that not everyone would be capable of appreciating them. Still I may rely on your intelligence, and make my exposition briefer than the subject demands. Epicurus then, as he not merely discerns abstruse and recondite things with his mind's eye, but handles them as tangible realities, teaches that the substance and nature of the gods is such that, in the first place, it is perceived not by the senses but by the mind, and not materially or individually, like the solid objects which Epicurus in virtue of their substantiality entitles steremnia; but by our perceiving images owing to their similarity and succession, because an endless train of precisely similar images arises from the innumerable atoms and streams towards the gods, our minds with the keenest feelings of pleasure fixes its gaze on these images, and so attains an understanding of the nature of a being both blessed and eternal.
14. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.49, 1.80-1.101, 2.352-2.366, 2.651 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

15. Philo of Alexandria, On The Life of Abraham, 183 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

183. One may well admire the exceeding courage of these women, who look thus contemptuously on death, and disdain it so exceedingly that they hasten and run impetuously towards it as if they were grasping immortality. XXXIV. But why, say they, ought one to praise Abraham as the attempter of a wholly novel kind of conduct, when it is only what private men and kings, and even whole nations do at appropriate seasons?
16. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 10.120 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

17. Epicurus, Letter To Menoeceus, 124, 123

18. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 1514



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aegisthus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 229
aeschylus Castagnoli and Ceccarelli, Greek Memories: Theories and Practices (2019) 96; Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139, 140
agamemnon, motive of in sacrificing iphigenia Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 258
agamemnon Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139, 140, 231, 232; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
alexander the great Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
altar Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 139
amphipolis, temple of artemis tauropolos Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
amulets Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
animals, artemis as mistress of beasts, Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
animals, sacrificial Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
animals Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
anthropology Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
apollo Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 232
apollonios rhodios Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
aqedah, for philo Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 258
ares, artemis and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
argos Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229, 232
aristarchus Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, animals, association with Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, ares and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, dionysus and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, iphigenia, sacrifice of Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, origins and development Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, sacrifice/sacrificial rituals for Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, sanctuaries and temples Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis, zeus and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis (goddess), sanctuary at brauron Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
artemis (goddess) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
artemis of aulis Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
artemis tauropolos Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
athens Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 232, 233
aulis, cult of artemis at Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
blasphemy Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138
blood, shedding of Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139, 140
bulls, artemis associated with Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
cattle Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
conscience Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228
curse (ara), of atreus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138
demand, nancy Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
dionysos (bacchus, god) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
dionysus, artemis and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
dyssebeia Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 231
ellis-hansen, a. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
empedocles Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
epicurus Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
euphemia, in aeschylus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
festivals, artemis brauronia Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
hagnos, of voice Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
homer, on artemis Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
homicide law, athenian Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
hosios Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 229
hosiotes (religious correctness) Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 232, 233
hubris, of tantalus and his descendants Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
human sacrifice Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
hymn, to reverent purity Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
iphigenia Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
justice, as prerequisite for salvation Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 233
justice, dikaios opposite of mysaros in euripides Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
justice, of matricide Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 232
kakos, thinking evil thoughts/badly Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
kin-killing Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
king, helen Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
leitao, david Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
life-change rituals, adolescence and puberty Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
life-change rituals, hairstyles Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
life-change rituals, marriage and death rituals Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
life-change rituals, symbolic clothing Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
life-change rituals Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
lucretius, religion in Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
madness, in the oresteia Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
matricide, and exile of the matricides Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 229, 231, 232, 233
matricide, resulting in pollution Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228
menelaus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228
miastor Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
mysaros Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 233
necessity, in the agamemnon Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 139
neils, jenifer Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
oath-breaking, provokes agos Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 233
orestes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139, 140, 228, 229, 231, 232, 233; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
parakopa Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in euripides electra Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 229, 231, 232, 233
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the oresteia Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139, 140
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the orestes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228
phronein hosia, in euripides electra Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 229, 231, 232, 233
plato Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
pollution, metaphysical Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 233
pollux (polydeuces) Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 232
prayer Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
pylades Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228, 232
religion, in lucretius Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 104
sacrifice, animal, aegisthus in euripides electra Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
sacrifice, animal, human, of iphigenia in the agamemnon Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139, 140
sacrifice, animal Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
sacrifice/sacrificial rituals, for artemis Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
sacrifice/sacrificial rituals, human sacrifice Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
sanctuaries and temples, of artemis Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
sourvinou-inwood, christiane Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
supplication, and purification of homicide Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228
supplication, in euripides electra Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 231
supplication, in the orestes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 228
symposium, in the oresteia Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
themis, in the agamemnon Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 138, 139, 140
thrace, ares and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
thrace, artemis and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
thrace, dionysus associated with Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
troy Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 232
women, dedication of clothing (peplos) to goddesses Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
women, divine protection in childbirth Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
women, marriage Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
women, physiological change and pollution' Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525
zeus, artemis and Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro,, The Gods of the Greeks (2021) 166
zeus, soter Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 140
zeus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 231, 232