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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 1016


ἔπεισʼ ἄφυκτος · πρῶτα μὲν γὰρ ὀκρίδαthink of what a tempest and a towering wave of woe shall break upon you past escape. First, the Father will shatter this jagged cliff with thunder and lightning-flame, and will entomb your frame, while the rock shall still hold you clasped in its embrace.


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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 827-828, 826 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

826. Roams through the earth and the broad backs of the sea
2. Homer, Iliad, 15.318-15.322 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

15.318. /were some of them lodged in the flesh of youths swift in battle, and many of them, or ever they reached the white flesh, stood fixed midway in the earth, fain to glut themselves with flesh. Now so long as Phoebus Apollo held the aegis moveless in his hands, even so long the missiles of either side reached their mark and the folk kept falling; 15.319. /were some of them lodged in the flesh of youths swift in battle, and many of them, or ever they reached the white flesh, stood fixed midway in the earth, fain to glut themselves with flesh. Now so long as Phoebus Apollo held the aegis moveless in his hands, even so long the missiles of either side reached their mark and the folk kept falling; 15.320. /but when he looked full in the faces of the Danaans of swift horses, and shook the aegis, and himself shouted mightily withal, then made he their hearts to faint within their breasts, and they forgat their furious might. And as when two wild beasts drive in confusion a herd of kine or a great flock of sheep in the darkness of black night 15.321. /but when he looked full in the faces of the Danaans of swift horses, and shook the aegis, and himself shouted mightily withal, then made he their hearts to faint within their breasts, and they forgat their furious might. And as when two wild beasts drive in confusion a herd of kine or a great flock of sheep in the darkness of black night 15.322. /but when he looked full in the faces of the Danaans of swift horses, and shook the aegis, and himself shouted mightily withal, then made he their hearts to faint within their breasts, and they forgat their furious might. And as when two wild beasts drive in confusion a herd of kine or a great flock of sheep in the darkness of black night
3. Homer, Odyssey, 11.633-11.635 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

4. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 19 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

19. Διὸς προφήτης δʼ ἐστὶ Λοξίας πατρός.
5. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 1018-1021, 1026, 1043-1054, 944-996, 1017 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1017. φάραγγα βροντῇ καὶ κεραυνίᾳ φλογὶ
6. Pindar, Nemean Odes, 9.11-9.17, 9.22-9.27 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Euripides, Ion, 68-73, 67 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Sophocles, Ajax, 450 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Plautus, Amphitruo, 465-498, 464 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)



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ajax Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
amphiaraos Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 169, 170
amphitryo Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
aniconism Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
apollo, loxias Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
apollo Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124; Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
archaeology Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
asklepios Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 169
audience Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
basileia (personification) Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
cult Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
danger, of divine gaze Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
delphi Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
divinity, and power of sight Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
dramaturgy Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
empty-space-aniconism Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
gaze, divine Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
gorgon Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
hermes Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
iris Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
lightning, for amphiaraos Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 169
mt olympus Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
oracle (divine message) Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
oracle (site) clarus Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
peace / eirene (personification) Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
peisetaerus Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
prometheus Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
ritual Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
semele Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 169
sight, power of, of divinities Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
thunderbolt Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
transgression' Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 169
trygaeus Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
typhoeus Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170
underworld Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
war (personification) Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
xanthias Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 124
zeus Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 169, 170; Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 170