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Aristophanes, Acharnians, 650-659

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πρὸς ταῦτα Κλέων καὶ παλαμάσθω

I scoff at Cleon's tricks and plotting; honesty and justice shall fight my cause; never will you find me a political poltroon, a prostitute to the highest bidder. I invoke thee, Acharnian Muse, fierce and fell as the devouring fire; sudden as the spark that bursts from the crackling oaken coal when roused by the quickening fan to fry little fishes, while others knead the dough or whip the sharp Thasian pickle with rapid hand, so break forth, my Muse, and inspire thy tribesmen with rough, vigorous, stirring strains. We others, now old men and heavy with years, we reproach the city; so many are the victories we have gained for the Athenian fleets that we well deserve to be cared for in our declining life; yet far from this, we are ill-used, harassed with law-suits, delivered over to the scorn of stripling orators. Our minds and bodies being ravaged with age, Poseidon should protect us, yet we have no other support than a staff. When standing before the judge, we can scarcely stammer forth the fewest words, and of justice we see but its barest shadow, whereas the accuser, desirous of conciliating the younger men, overwhelms us with his ready rhetoric;

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1. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 101-125, 61-62, 628-629, 63, 630-639, 64, 640-649, 65, 651-659, 66, 660-664, 67-100 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

100. ἰαρταμὰν ἐξάρξαν ἀπισσόνα σάτρα.

2. Aristophanes, Knights, 1053, 1166-1180, 268, 478, 505-550, 1052 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1052. ἀλλ' ἱέρακα φίλει μεμνημένος ἐν φρεσὶν ὅς σοι

3. Aristophanes, Clouds, 546-562, 575-594, 545 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

545. κἀγὼ μὲν τοιοῦτος ἀνὴρ ὢν ποιητὴς οὐ κομῶ

4. Aristophanes, Peace, 751-760, 738 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

738. ἄξιος εἶναί φης' εὐλογίας μεγάλης ὁ διδάσκαλος ἡμῶν.

5. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 792-793, 791 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

791. ἐμοῦ γὰρ εἰσιόντος ἐς τὴν οἰκίαν

6. Aristophanes, Frogs, 676-705, 710, 718-733, 675 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

675. Μοῦσα χορῶν ἱερῶν: ἐπίβηθι καὶ ἔλθ' ἐπὶ τέρψιν ἀοιδᾶς ἐμᾶς

7. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 400-597, 399 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

399. Who is the despot of this land? To whom must I announce

8. Herodotus, Histories, 7.139 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7.139. Here I am forced to declare an opinion which will be displeasing to most, but I will not refrain from saying what seems to me to be true. ,Had the Athenians been panic-struck by the threatened peril and left their own country, or had they not indeed left it but remained and surrendered themselves to Xerxes, none would have attempted to withstand the king by sea. What would have happened on land if no one had resisted the king by sea is easy enough to determine. ,Although the Peloponnesians had built not one but many walls across the Isthmus for their defense, they would nevertheless have been deserted by their allies (these having no choice or free will in the matter, but seeing their cities taken one by one by the foreign fleet), until at last they would have stood alone. They would then have put up quite a fight and perished nobly. ,Such would have been their fate. Perhaps, however, when they saw the rest of Hellas siding with the enemy, they would have made terms with Xerxes. In either case Hellas would have been subdued by the Persians, for I cannot see what advantage could accrue from the walls built across the isthmus, while the king was master of the seas. ,As it is, to say that the Athenians were the saviors of Hellas is to hit the truth. It was the Athenians who held the balance; whichever side they joined was sure to prevail. choosing that Greece should preserve her freedom, the Athenians roused to battle the other Greek states which had not yet gone over to the Persians and, after the gods, were responsible for driving the king off. ,Nor were they moved to desert Hellas by the threatening oracles which came from Delphi and sorely dismayed them, but they stood firm and had the courage to meet the invader of their country.

9. Isocrates, Orations, 4.93, 4.95-4.99, 12.140 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

10. Lysias, Orations, 2.33-2.45 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

11. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.73.2-1.73.74, 2.37-2.41, 3.37-3.48, 4.50.1-4.50.2, 8.45-8.49, 8.46.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.73.2. We need not refer to remote antiquity: there we could appeal to the voice of tradition, but not to the experience of our audience. But to the Median war and contemporary history we must refer, although we are rather tired of continually bringing this subject forward. In our action during that war we ran great risk to obtain certain advantages: you had your share in the solid results, do not try to rob us of all share in the good that the glory may do us. 1.73.3. However, the story shall be told not so much to deprecate hostility as to testify against it, and to show, if you are so ill-advised as to enter into a struggle with Athens, what sort of an antagonist she is likely to prove. 1.73.4. We assert that at Marathon we were at the front, and faced the barbarian single-handed. That when he came the second time, unable to cope with him by land we went on board our ships with all our people, and joined in the action at Salamis . This prevented his taking the Peloponnesian states in detail, and ravaging them with his fleet; when the multitude of his vessels would have made any combination for self-defence impossible. 1.73.5. The best proof of this was furnished by the invader himself. Defeated at sea, he considered his power to be no longer what it had been, and retired as speedily as possible with the greater part of his army.

12. Aeschines, Letters, 1.178, 2.124, 3.97-3.99 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

13. Demosthenes, Orations, 3.21-3.24, 6.31, 8.34, 9.4, 16.3, 18.278, 18.280-18.284, 23.145, 23.188 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

14. Dinarchus, Or., 1.98, 1.110 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

15. Aeschines, Or., 1.178, 2.153, 3.97-3.99

16. Andocides, Orations, 3.29

17. Andocides, Orations, 3.29

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
alazōn	Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202
alcibiades, depicted in aristophanes birds	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
alcibiades	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
antiphon, anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
aristophanes, and anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
aristophanes, and parabasis	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
aristophanes, and topoi of orators	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
aristophanes, dicaeopolis in	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
aristophanes, on flattering rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
aristophanes, works, acharnians	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
aristophanes	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli, Greek Memories: Theories and Practices (2019) 130; Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270; Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202; Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
athens, comic vision of	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
athens and athenians, and religious authority	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
athens and athenians, attitudes of, toward asiatics	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
athens and athenians, in peloponnesian war era	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311, 324
athens and athenians, in pentecontaetia	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
athens and athenians, in persian war era	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
attic forensic oratory, corpus of	Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202
comedy	Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202
conflict	Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202
deception, and comedy	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
deception, association with rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
delphi	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
digression	Clay and Vergados, Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry (2022) 18
euripides	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
henderson, jeffrey	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
herodotus, and the athenian audience	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
herodotus, historical perspective of	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
king	Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202
mother of the gods, and tyranny	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
oracles, delphic	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
oracles, interpreted by athenians	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
peloponnese	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
peloponnesian war	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311, 324
pericles	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
persia and persians, empire of	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
persia and persians, sovereignty claimed by	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
persia and persians, treaties with greeks	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
persia and persians, war with greeks	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311, 324
plato	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
rhetoric, of anti-rhetoric	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
sacred marriage, in comedy	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
sardis, under persians	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
socrates	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
sparta and spartans, and persia	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
sparta and spartans, in peloponnesian war	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
spartans	Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202
thucydides, and herodotus	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
thucydides, on alcibiades	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
thucydides, on persians	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
thucydides, on spartans	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311
thucydides, on tyrants and tyranny	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
tissaphernes	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
topoi, in aristophanes	Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 270
tyranny, greek attitudes towards'	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
vickers, michael	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 324
war	Michalopoulos et al., The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (2021) 202
xerxes	Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 311