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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 443
ἀκούσαθʼ, ὥς σφας νηπίους ὄντας τὸ πρὶν their prerogatives to these upstart gods? But I do not speak of this; for my tale would tell you nothing except what you know. Still, listen to the miseries that beset mankind—how they were witless before and I made them have sense and endowed them with reason.

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 110-120, 202-212, 109 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 109. Filling both land and sea, while every day
2. Homer, Iliad, 24.54 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 24.54. /But this man, when he hath reft goodly Hector of life, bindeth him behind his chariot and draggeth him about the barrow of his dear comrade; in sooth neither honour nor profit shall he have therefrom. Let him beware lest we wax wroth with him, good man though he be; for lo, in his fury he doth foul despite unto senseless clay.
3. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 402-405, 408-411, 436, 442, 444-506, 400 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 400. δακρυσίστακτα δʼ ἀπʼ ὄσσων 400. 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
4. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 2.68 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 202-204, 201 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Sophocles, Antigone, 332-376, 388-394, 407-443, 446-525, 531-581, 305 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Aratus Solensis, Phaenomena, 101-114, 96-100 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 100. εὔκηλος φορέοιτο· λόγος γε μὲν ἐντρέχει ἄλλος
8. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 2.1246-2.1259 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 2.1246. καὶ δὴ νισσομένοισι μυχὸς διεφαίνετο Πόντου. 2.1247. καὶ δὴ Καυκασίων ὀρέων ἀνέτελλον ἐρίπναι 2.1248. ἠλίβατοι, τόθι γυῖα περὶ στυφελοῖσι πάγοισιν 2.1249. ἰλλόμενος χαλκέῃσιν ἀλυκτοπέδῃσι Προμηθεὺς 2.1250. αἰετὸν ἥπατι φέρβε παλιμπετὲς ἀίσσοντα. 2.1251. τὸν μὲν ἐπʼ ἀκροτάτης ἴδον ἕσπερον ὀξέι ῥοίζῳ 2.1252. νηὸς ὑπερπτάμενον νεφέων σχεδόν· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔμπης 2.1253. λαίφεα πάντʼ ἐτίναξε, παραιθύξας πτερύγεσσιν. 2.1254. οὐ γὰρʼ ὅγʼ αἰθερίοιο φυὴν ἔχεν οἰωνοῖο 2.1255. ἶσα δʼ ἐυξέστοις ὠκύπτερα πάλλεν ἐρετμοῖς 2.1256. δηρὸν δʼ. οὐ μετέπειτα πολύστονον ἄιον αὐδὴν 2.1257. ἧπαρ ἀνελκομένοιο Προμηθέος· ἔκτυπε δʼ αἰθὴρ 2.1258. οἰμωγῇ, μέσφʼ αὖτις ἀπʼ οὔρεος ἀίσσοντα 2.1259. αἰετὸν ὠμηστὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν εἰσενόησαν.
9. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.2.16, 2.1.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
10. Catullus, Poems, 64.13-64.14 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.8.1-1.8.7 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.8.1.  Concerning the first generation of the universe this is the account which we have received. But the first men to be born, he says, led an undisciplined and bestial life, setting out one by one to secure their sustece and taking for their food both the tenderest herbs and the fruits of wild trees. Then 1.8.2.  since they were attacked by the wild beasts, they came to each other's aid, being instructed by expediency, and when gathered together in this way by reason of their fear, they gradually came to recognize their mutual characteristics. 1.8.3.  And though the sounds which they made were at first unintelligible and indistinct, yet gradually they came to give articulation to their speech, and by agreeing with one another upon symbols for each thing which presented itself to them, made known among themselves the significance which was to be attached to each term. 1.8.4.  But since groups of this kind arose over every part of the inhabited world, not all men had the same language, inasmuch as every group organized the elements of its speech by mere chance. This is the explanation of the present existence of every conceivable kind of language, and, furthermore, out of these first groups to be formed came all the original nations of the world. 1.8.5.  Now the first men, since none of the things useful for life had yet been discovered, led a wretched existence, having no clothing to cover them, knowing not the use of dwelling and fire, and also being totally ignorant of cultivated food. 1.8.6.  For since they also even neglected the harvesting of the wild food, they laid by no store of its fruits against their needs; consequently large numbers of them perished in the winters because of the cold and the lack of food. 1.8.7.  Little by little, however, experience taught them both to take to the caves in winter and to store such fruits as could be preserved.
12. Ovid, Amores, 3.8.35-3.8.36 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
13. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.89-1.112, 1.363-1.364 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
14. Tibullus, Elegies, 1.3.35-1.3.50, 1.10.1-1.10.12 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
15. Vergil, Georgics, 1.127-1.138, 4.389 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 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 1.136. Waking hoarse murmurs o'er the polished stones 1.137. And with its bubblings slakes the thirsty fields? 1.138. Or why of him, who lest the heavy ear 4.389. And shut the doors, and leave him there to lie.
16. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 2.454-2.549, 4.60-4.81, 4.156, 5.154-5.176 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
17. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 9.27.4, 13.12.3-13.12.4 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
alexander of pherae	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
alexandria	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
antigone	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484
antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484
argo, civilizing voyage of	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
aristobulus (philosopher)	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
artapanus	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
athens	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
audience	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
boreas, sons of	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
deucalion	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 98
emotional restraint, narratology of	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
emotions, joy	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
empathy	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
episodes, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484
euhemerism'	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 98
eulogy, of human beings	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484
golden age, as moral value	Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 92
golden age, in georgic	Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 92
golden age, in myth	Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 92
golden age	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
hercules	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
jason	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
jupiter	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
moses, as inventor	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
moses, as philosopher	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
paean, to human beings	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484
pathos (πάθος)	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
philosophy	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
playwrights, tragedy (hellenistic), men of pherae	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
playwrights, tragedy (hellenistic), moschion	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
playwrights, tragedy (hellenistic), themistocles	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
pleiad	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
plots, tragic, historical plays	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
preservation	Bartels, Plato's Pragmatic Project: A Reading of Plato's Laws (2017) 47
prometheus, as primus inventor	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 98
prometheus, first connected with the golden age by ovid	Hay, Saeculum: Defining Historical Eras in Ancient Roman Thought (2023) 98
prometheus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165; Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
prometheus bound	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
proteus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
pythagoras	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
redundancy	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
silver age	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
socrates	Bloch, Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism (2022) 29
sophocles, in relation to postclassical tragic plays	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
space, as expression of emotion	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294
stasima, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484
stobaeus, john	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
structure, of antigone (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 484
themistocles	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 102
underworld	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
valerius flaccus, ideological epic of	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
varro	Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 92
vespasian, and augustus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 165
virtue	Bartels, Plato's Pragmatic Project: A Reading of Plato's Laws (2017) 47
zeus	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster, Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (2022) 294