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Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 399
κλῦτε δὲ Γᾶ χθονίων τε τιμαί. Χορός and split their heads open? Let it be a pledge to the land! After injustice I demand justice as my right. Hear, O Earth, and you honored powers below! Chorus

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1. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 139-163, 306-398, 400-480, 483-496, 504, 1063 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1063. ἀλλʼ εὐτυχοίης, καί σʼ ἐποπτεύων πρόφρων 1063. Then may blessings go with you, and may the god watch benevolently over you and guard you with favorable fortunes!
2. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, 216, 348-353, 1 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1. Ζεὺς μὲν ἀφίκτωρ ἐπίδοι προφρόνως 1. May Zeus who guards suppliants look graciously upon our company, which boarded a ship and put to sea from the outlets of the fine sand of the
3. Euripides, Alcestis, 743 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, And Places, 49, 46 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
5. Plato, Alcibiades Ii, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 148e. took counsel together and decided that the best thing they could do was to send and inquire of Ammon ; and moreover, to ask also for what reason the gods granted victory to the Spartans rather than to themselves: for we —such was the message— offer up to them more and finer sacrifices than any of the Greeks, and have adorned their temples with votive emblems as no other people have done, and presented to the gods the costliest and stateliest processions year by year, and spent more money thus than
6. Sophocles, Ajax, 1167, 749, 1166 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Sophocles, Electra, 1380, 453-454, 1376 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
8. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 1545, 287-288, 787-788, 92-93, 1544 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
9. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 101 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
10. Xenophon, Memoirs, 2.3.11 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 2.3.11. If you have observed that I know some spell without being conscious of my knowledge, pray tell me at once. Then tell me, now; if you wanted to get an invitation to dine with an acquaintance when he offers sacrifice, what would you do? of course I should begin by inviting him myself when I offered sacrifice.
11. Xenophon, On Household Management, 2.5 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 2.5. How can that be? exclaimed Critobulus. Because, in the first place, explained Socrates , I notice that you are bound to offer many large sacrifices; else, I fancy, you would get into trouble with gods and men alike. Secondly, it is your duty to entertain many strangers, on a generous scale too. Thirdly, you have to give dinners and play the benefactor to the citizens, or you lose your following.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
address, hymnic	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
agamemnon	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
ajax	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
argos, argive	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
athens, athenian	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
charis, as human-god relationship	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
charis, from dedications	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
comedy, criticisms of	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
comparisons, with heroes and gods	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
cult, for heroes	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
danaids	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
danaus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
darius	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
dionysus, festivals of	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
dochmiac metre	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
epinician	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
epithalamium	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
eupolis	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
goats song	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 728
good speech, and lies about gods	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
good speech, at sacrifices	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
good speech, in prayer	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
good speech	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
honouring the gods, and charis	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
honouring the gods, through sacrifices	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
horace, ὡϲ θεῶι vel sim.	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
hymn	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
immortality, in cult	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
immortality, in general	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
invocation, hymnic	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
oedipus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132
patronymic address	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
pelasgus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
poets and poetry, criticisms of	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
prayer	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132, 144
prayers, and good speech	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
prayers, proper	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
requests, hymnic	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
sacrifices, and festivals	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
sacrifices, at athens	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
sacrifices, expensive	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
sacrifices, private	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
sacrifices	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
scythians	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
service to gods'"	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
spartans, prayers of	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
spartans, sacrifices of	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
supplication	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 132, 144
tragedy, criticisms of	Mikalson, Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy (2010) 61
tragedy, origin of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 728
κλῦθι	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144
πρόφρων	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 144