Home About Network of subjects Linked subjects heatmap Book indices included Search by subject Search by reference Browse subjects Browse texts

Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



4471
Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.40.5


nanJason, who was eager for glory, recognizing that the labour was difficult of accomplishment and yet not altogether impossible, and concluding that for this very reason the greater renown would attach to himself, made ready everything needed for the undertaking.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

4 results
1. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.18-1.19 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.18. νῆα μὲν οὖν οἱ πρόσθεν ἐπικλείουσιν ἀοιδοὶ 1.19. Ἄργον Ἀθηναίης καμέειν ὑποθημοσύνῃσιν.
2. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.40.1-4.40.3 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.40.2.  And since he observed that of the men of former times Perseus and certain others had gained glory which was held in everlasting remembrance from the campaigns which they had waged in foreign lands and the hazard attending the labours they had performed, he was eager to follow the examples they had set. As a consequence he revealed his undertaking to the king and quickly received his approval. It was not so much that Pelias was eager to bring distinction to the youth that he hoped that in the hazardous expeditions he would lose his life;
3. Anon., Tabulae Pompeianae Sulpiciorum, 51-52, 55, 67-68, 83, 87, 45

4. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.22-1.57, 1.64-1.78, 1.121-1.129



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeson Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
alien/foreigner,and barbaroi Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
argo,construction of Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 142
argus,builder of the argo Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 142
barbarians/barbarity,brutal and cruel behavior ascribed to Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
barbarians/barbarity,diodorus on Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
barbarians/barbarity,labeled in particular,rather than in general Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
carthage/carthaginians Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
colchis Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
diodorus siculus Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
gauls/celts Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
golden fleece Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
jason Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
juno Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
minerva Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
pelias Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
perseus Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
rome/romans,and barbarians Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
sicily Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
sparta/spartans Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
thespiae Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 142
thessaly Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141, 142
thrace/thracians Gruen (2020), Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter, 24
valerius flaccus,and dionysius scytobrachion' Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 141
valerius flaccus,and dionysius scytobrachion Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 141, 142; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 142