Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 400
δακρυσίστακτα δʼ ἀπʼ ὄσσων Shedding from my eyes a coursing flood of tears I wet my tender cheeks with their moist streams. For Zeus, holding this unenviable power by self-appointed laws

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1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 778, 92, 695 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 695. λαμπρὸν μιαίνων οὔποθʼ εὑρήσεις ποτόν. 695. with filth, you will never find a drink. Neither anarchy nor tyranny—this I counsel my citizens to support and respect, and not to drive fear wholly out of the city. For who among mortals, if he fears nothing, is righteous?
2. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 150-151, 186-192, 402-405, 408-411, 442-471, 476-506, 149 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 149. ταῖσδʼ ἀδαμαντοδέτοισι λύμαις.
3. Euripides, Medea, 493-495, 492 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 492. Gone is now the trust I put in oaths. I cannot even understand whether thou thinkest that the gods of old no longer rule, or that fresh decrees are now in vogue amongst mankind

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeschylus,prometheus bound	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 387
anger	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 387
athens	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
audience	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292, 294
emotional restraint,narratology of	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292, 294
emotions,despair	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292
emotions,joy	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
empathy	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
messenger-speech	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292
pathos (πάθος)	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292, 294
private laws.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 387
prometheus	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292, 294
prometheus bound	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292, 294
punishment.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 387
punishment	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292
space,as expression of emotion	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
tragedy,and law'	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 387
zeus	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 292, 294