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Euripides, Alcestis, 783-787


nanthan to make justice miscarry by an invidious exercise of power; for such a victory, though men think it sweet for the moment, grows barren in time and comes very near being a family reproach.


nanthan to make justice miscarry by an invidious exercise of power; for such a victory, though men think it sweet for the moment, grows barren in time and comes very near being a family reproach.


nanThis is the life I commend, this the life. I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state. Choru


nanThis is the life I commend, this the life. I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state. Choru


nanThis is the life I commend, this the life. I set before me as my ideal, to exercise no authority beyond what is right either in the marriage-chamber or in the state. Choru


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1. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 1.11-1.14 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

1.11. אִם־יֹאמְרוּ לְכָה אִתָּנוּ נֶאֶרְבָה לְדָם נִצְפְּנָה לְנָקִי חִנָּם׃ 1.12. נִבְלָעֵם כִּשְׁאוֹל חַיִּים וּתְמִימִים כְּיוֹרְדֵי בוֹר׃ 1.13. כָּל־הוֹן יָקָר נִמְצָא נְמַלֵּא בָתֵּינוּ שָׁלָל׃ 1.14. גּוֹרָלְךָ תַּפִּיל בְּתוֹכֵנוּ כִּיס אֶחָד יִהְיֶה לְכֻלָּנוּ׃ 1.11. If they say: ‘Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us lurk for the innocent without cause;" 1.12. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;" 1.13. We shall find all precious substance, We shall fill our houses with spoil;" 1.14. Cast in thy lot among us; Let us all have one purse’—"
2. Hebrew Bible, Isaiah, 22.13 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

22.13. וְהִנֵּה שָׂשׂוֹן וְשִׂמְחָה הָרֹג בָּקָר וְשָׁחֹט צֹאן אָכֹל בָּשָׂר וְשָׁתוֹת יָיִן אָכוֹל וְשָׁתוֹ כִּי מָחָר נָמוּת׃ 22.13. And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine— 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!’"
3. Euripides, Alcestis, 784-787, 782 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Hebrew Bible, Ecclesiastes, 2.24, 3.12, 5.18, 8.15, 9.7 (5th cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

2.24. אֵין־טוֹב בָּאָדָם שֶׁיֹּאכַל וְשָׁתָה וְהֶרְאָה אֶת־נַפְשׁוֹ טוֹב בַּעֲמָלוֹ גַּם־זֹה רָאִיתִי אָנִי כִּי מִיַּד הָאֱלֹהִים הִיא׃ 3.12. יָדַעְתִּי כִּי אֵין טוֹב בָּם כִּי אִם־לִשְׂמוֹחַ וְלַעֲשׂוֹת טוֹב בְּחַיָּיו׃ 5.18. גַּם כָּל־הָאָדָם אֲשֶׁר נָתַן־לוֹ הָאֱלֹהִים עֹשֶׁר וּנְכָסִים וְהִשְׁלִיטוֹ לֶאֱכֹל מִמֶּנּוּ וְלָשֵׂאת אֶת־חֶלְקוֹ וְלִשְׂמֹחַ בַּעֲמָלוֹ זֹה מַתַּת אֱלֹהִים הִיא׃ 8.15. וְשִׁבַּחְתִּי אֲנִי אֶת־הַשִּׂמְחָה אֲשֶׁר אֵין־טוֹב לָאָדָם תַּחַת הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ כִּי אִם־לֶאֱכוֹל וְלִשְׁתּוֹת וְלִשְׂמוֹחַ וְהוּא יִלְוֶנּוּ בַעֲמָלוֹ יְמֵי חַיָּיו אֲשֶׁר־נָתַן־לוֹ הָאֱלֹהִים תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ׃ 9.7. לֵךְ אֱכֹל בְּשִׂמְחָה לַחְמֶךָ וּשֲׁתֵה בְלֶב־טוֹב יֵינֶךָ כִּי כְבָר רָצָה הָאֱלֹהִים אֶת־מַעֲשֶׂיךָ׃ 2.24. There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God." 3.12. I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to get pleasure so long as they live." 5.18. Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour—this is the gift of God." 8.15. So I commended mirth, that a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry, and that this should accompany him in his labour all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun." 9.7. Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, And drink thy wine with a merry heart; For God hath already accepted thy works."
5. Anon., 1 Enoch, 102.9-102.11 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

102.9. I tell you, ye sinners, ye are content to eat and drink, and rob and sin, and strip men naked, and 102.11. of violence is found in them till their death ' Nevertheless they perished and became as though they had not been, and their spirits descended into Sheol in tribulation.
6. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 11.19 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

7. Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon, 2.6-2.12 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.6. Come, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that exist,and make use of the creation to the full as in youth. 2.7. Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes,and let no flower of spring pass by us. 2.8. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. 2.9. Let none of us fail to share in our revelry,everywhere let us leave signs of enjoyment,because this is our portion, and this our lot. 2.10. Let us oppress the righteous poor man;let us not spare the widow nor regard the gray hairs of the aged. 2.11. But let our might be our law of right,for what is weak proves itself to be useless. 2.12. Let us lie in wait for the righteous man,because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions;he reproaches us for sins against the law,and accuses us of sins against our training.
8. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 15.32 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

15.32. If I fought withanimals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If thedead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
9. New Testament, Acts, 27.23 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

27.23. For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve
10. New Testament, Luke, 12.19-12.20 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

12.19. I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."' 12.20. But God said to him, 'You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?'
11. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 34 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

12. Petronius Arbiter, Satyricon, 34 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
afterlife, eschatological punishment Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
afterlife, reward Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
afterlife Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
agamemnon, seven against thebes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
alcestis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
alexander jannaeus Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
aphrodite Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
bultmann, rudolf Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
carpe diem, survey of Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
characters, minor Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
comedy, and carpe diem Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
covetousness Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
didactic poetry Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
elegy, and carpe diem Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
epic, and carpe diem Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
exhortation (to enjoyment) Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
food, association with wealth Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
foolishness, of trusting wealth Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
hedonism Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
hippolytus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
horace Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
iliad Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
kyriakou, p. xxii Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
nakedness Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
nan, and excerpt Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 186
nan, anthology Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 186
nan, archestratus of gela Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
nature (transience of), and leaves Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 186
pastoral poetry, and carpe diem Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
pleasure Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
punishment of wrongdoers Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
take that Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
teichoskopia Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 915
topos, topoi, covetousness Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
topos, topoi Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 349
tragedy, and carpe diem Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 24
wealth/prosperity Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510
wieland, christoph martin Rohland, Carpe Diem: The Poetics of Presence in Greek and Latin Literature (2022) 186
wisdom' Stuckenbruck, 1 Enoch 91-108 (2007) 510