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Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1024-1025
φρένες δύσαρκτοι· πρὸς δὲ καρδίᾳ φόβος But since I would have you know, for I do not know how it will end: I think I am a charioteer driving my team far beyond the course. For my ungoverned wits are whirling me away overmastered, and at my heart fear wishes to sing and dance to a tune of wrath.
ᾄδειν ἕτοιμος ἠδʼ ὑπορχεῖσθαι κότῳ. But while I am still in my senses, I proclaim to those who hold me dear and declare that not without justice did I slay my mother, the unclean murderess of my father, and a thing loathed by the gods. And for the spells that gave me the courage for this deed I count Loxias, the prophet of Pytho

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1. Homer, Odyssey, 11.422 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
2. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1101-1102, 1428, 1100 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1100. ἰὼ πόποι, τί ποτε μήδεται; 1100. Ah, gods, what ever does she meditate? 1100. What this new anguish great?
3. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1025, 1027-1028, 1046-1061, 1063, 1065-1076, 973, 987-989, 994-996, 1017 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1017. ἄζηλα νίκης τῆσδʼ ἔχων μιάσματα. Χορός
4. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 1034-1035, 1039-1043, 267-275, 330-332, 377, 850, 893, 988-992, 1033 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1033. Νυκτὸς παῖδες ἄπαιδες, ὑπʼ εὔφρονι πομπᾷ, Προπομποί
5. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 10.65 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Euripides, Orestes, 1333-1343, 1625-1665, 283-293, 380-467, 1332 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1332. Yes, a suppliant cried out as he fell at Helen’s knees— Hermione
7. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 246a. that that which moves itself is nothing else than the soul,—then the soul would necessarily be ungenerated and immortal. Concerning the immortality of the soul this is enough; but about its form we must speak in the following manner. To tell what it really is would be a matter for utterly superhuman and long discourse, but it is within human power to describe it briefly in a figure; let us therefore speak in that way. We will liken the soul to the composite nature of a pair of winged horses and a charioteer. Now the horses and charioteers of the gods are all good and
8. Callimachus, Aetia, 1.25-1.28 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
9. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.87 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.87. Let someone therefore prove that it could have been better. But no one will ever prove this, and anyone who essays to improve some detail will either make it worse or will be demanding an improvement impossible in the nature of things. "But if the structure of the world in all its parts is such that it could not have been better whether in point of utility or beauty, let us consider js is the result of chance, or whether on the contrary the parts of the world are in such a condition that they could not possibly have cohered together if they were not controlled by intelligence and by divine providence. If then that produces of nature are better than those of art, and if art produces nothing without reason, nature too cannot be deemed to be without reason. When you see a statue or a painting, you recognize the exercise of art; when you observe from a distance the course of a ship, you do not hesitate to assume that its motion is guided by reason and by art; when you look at a sun‑dial or a water-clock, you infer that it tells the time by art and not by chance; how then can it be consistent to suppose that the world, which includes both the works of art in question, the craftsmen who made them, and everything else besides, can be devoid of purpose and of reason?
10. Horace, Sermones, 1.1.115 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 6.47 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
12. Propertius, Elegies, 3.1.9-3.1.12 (1st cent. BCE
13. Vergil, Georgics, 1.118-1.135, 1.139-1.148, 1.150-1.159, 1.199-1.203, 1.512-1.514, 2.47-2.72, 2.211, 2.541-2.542 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.118. Hales o'er them; from the far Olympian height 1.119. Him golden Ceres not in vain regards; 1.120. And he, who having ploughed the fallow plain 1.121. And heaved its furrowy ridges, turns once more 1.122. Cross-wise his shattering share, with stroke on stroke 1.123. The earth assails, and makes the field his thrall. 1.124. Pray for wet summers and for winters fine 1.125. Ye husbandmen; in winter's dust the crop 1.126. Exceedingly rejoice, the field hath joy; 1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.128. Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admire. 1.129. Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.131. The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn 1.132. Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain; 1.133. And when the parched field quivers, and all the blade 1.134. Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed 1.135. See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls 1.139. O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade 1.140. Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth 1.141. First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain 1.142. The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand 1.143. Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream 1.144. Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime 1.145. Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke 1.146. Sweat steaming vapour? 1.147. But no whit the more 1.148. For all expedients tried and travail borne 1.150. Do greedy goose and Strymon-haunting crane 1.151. And succory's bitter fibres cease to harm 1.152. Or shade not injure. The great Sire himself 1.153. No easy road to husbandry assigned 1.154. And first was he by human skill to rouse 1.155. The slumbering glebe, whetting the minds of men 1.156. With care on care, nor suffering realm of hi 1.157. In drowsy sloth to stagnate. Before Jove 1.158. Fields knew no taming hand of husbandmen; 1.159. To mark the plain or mete with boundary-line— 1.199. Alack! thy neighbour's heaped-up harvest-mow 1.200. And in the greenwood from a shaken oak 1.201. Seek solace for thine hunger. 1.202. Now to tell 1.203. The sturdy rustics' weapons, what they are 1.512. Towering, and Scylla for the purple lock 1.513. Pays dear; for whereso, as she flies, her wing 1.514. The light air winnow, lo! fierce, implacable 2.47. Come then, and learn what tilth to each belong 2.48. According to their kinds, ye husbandmen 2.49. And tame with culture the wild fruits, lest earth 2.50. Lie idle. O blithe to make all Ismaru 2.51. One forest of the wine-god, and to clothe 2.52. With olives huge Tabernus! And be thou 2.53. At hand, and with me ply the voyage of toil 2.54. I am bound on, O my glory, O thou that art 2.55. Justly the chiefest portion of my fame 2.56. Maecenas, and on this wide ocean launched 2.57. Spread sail like wings to waft thee. Not that I 2.58. With my poor verse would comprehend the whole 2.59. Nay, though a hundred tongues, a hundred mouth 2.60. Were mine, a voice of iron; be thou at hand 2.61. Skirt but the nearer coast-line; see the shore 2.62. Is in our grasp; not now with feigned song 2.63. Through winding bouts and tedious preluding 2.64. Shall I detain thee. 2.65. Those that lift their head 2.66. Into the realms of light spontaneously 2.67. Fruitless indeed, but blithe and strenuous spring 2.68. Since Nature lurks within the soil. And yet 2.69. Even these, should one engraft them, or transplant 2.70. To well-drilled trenches, will anon put of 2.71. Their woodland temper, and, by frequent tilth 2.72. To whatso craft thou summon them, make speed 2.211. Avernian inlets pours the Tuscan tide? 2.541. To plant, nor lavish of their pains? Why trace 2.542. Things mightier? Willows even and lowly broom
14. Bacchylides, Odes, 5.177

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aegisthus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144, 145
aeschylus, priestesses	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
aeschylus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 144, 145, 164
agamemnon	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 145
amor, in georgics	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
apollo	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 144, 145, 222
areopagus, homicide court	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 222
argos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144, 222
athena	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133; Shilo, Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics (2022) 189
athens	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 145, 164
blood, and miasma	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 145
blood, shedding of	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133
conscience	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
epicureanism	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
erinyes	Shilo, Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics (2022) 189
euphemia, and being euphron	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 164
euphemia, in aeschylus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133
euphron, euphrosyne	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 164
euthyphron	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 164
exile	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144, 222
finales, book 1	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
finales, book 2	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
hades	Shilo, Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics (2022) 189
homicide, intentional	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144
homicide, justifiable	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144
homicide law, athenian	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 144, 164
hyporchema	Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 154
imagery, chariots	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
justice, and erinyes/semnai/in the oresteia	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 164
justice, matricide	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144
justice, retributive	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133
justice	Shilo, Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics (2022) 189
katharmos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 145
kin-killing	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
labor, in the georgics	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
madness, in the oresteia	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 144, 145
madness, in the orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
matricide, and pursuit by erinyes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144, 145, 164
matricide, resulting in pollution	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
menelaus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
muses	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
ololyge	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 164
orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 144, 145, 164, 222; Shilo, Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics (2022) 189
pema/pama	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 145
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the oresteia	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144, 164
phrēn	Shilo, Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics (2022) 189
pindar	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188; Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 154
poetry and poetics	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
politics, in the georgics	Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (2000) 188
pollution, metaphysical, and killing	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133
pylades	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
sacrifice, animal, human, of iphigenia in the agamemnon	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 145
salvation, semnai theai	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133, 164
sparta	Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 154
supplication, and purification of homicide	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
supplication, in the eumenides	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 133
supplication, in the orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
synesis/syneidesis/syneidos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
thaletas	Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 154
transmigration, in empedocles, sparta	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
tyrants, killing of'	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 144
xenodamos	Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 154