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Euripides, Bacchae, 312-314

φρονεῖν δόκει τι· τὸν θεὸν δʼ ἐς γῆν δέχου

do not boast that sovereignty has power among men, nor, even if you think so, and your mind is diseased, believe that you are being at all wise. Receive the god into your land, pour libations to him, celebrate the Bacchic rites, and garland your head.Dionysus will not compel women

καὶ σπένδε καὶ βάκχευε καὶ στέφου κάρα.

nan	do not boast that sovereignty has power among men, nor, even if you think so, and your mind is diseased, believe that you are being at all wise. Receive the god into your land, pour libations to him, celebrate the Bacchic rites, and garland your head.Dionysus will not compel women

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

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1. Aristophanes, Birds, 988, 987 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν

2. Aristophanes, Clouds, 332 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

332. Θουριομάντεις ἰατροτέχνας σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήτας

3. Euripides, Bacchae, 106-114, 1349, 176-177, 181-183, 192-196, 206, 208, 214-239, 24, 240-249, 25, 250-311, 313-369, 39-40, 48, 543-544, 850, 105 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

105. ὦ Σεμέλας τροφοὶ Θῆβαι, word split in text foreign xml:lang=

105. O Thebes , nurse of Semele, crown yourself with ivy, flourish, flourish with the verdant yew bearing sweet fruit, and crown yourself in honor of Bacchus with branches of oak

4. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 301-304, 385-395, 300 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Septuagint, 3 Maccabees, 2.3-2.4, 6.9, 6.15, 6.18-6.21, 6.28 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

2.3. For you, the creator of all things and the governor of all, are a just Ruler, and you judge those who have done anything in insolence and arrogance. 2.3. In order that he might not appear to be an enemy to all, he inscribed below: "But if any of them prefer to join those who have been initiated into the mysteries, they shall have equal citizenship with the Alexandrians. 2.4. You destroyed those who in the past committed injustice, among whom were even giants who trusted in their strength and boldness, whom you destroyed by bringing upon them a boundless flood. 6.9. And now, you who hate insolence, all-merciful and protector of all, reveal yourself quickly to those of the nation of Israel -- who are being outrageously treated by the abominable and lawless Gentiles. 6.15. Let it be shown to all the Gentiles that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face from us; but just as you have said, `Not even when they were in the land of their enemies did I neglect them,' so accomplish it, O Lord. 6.18. Then the most glorious, almighty, and true God revealed his holy face and opened the heavenly gates, from which two glorious angels of fearful aspect descended, visible to all but the Jews. 6.19. They opposed the forces of the enemy and filled them with confusion and terror, binding them with immovable shackles. 6.21. The beasts turned back upon the armed forces following them and began trampling and destroying them. 6.28. Release the sons of the almighty and living God of heaven, who from the time of our ancestors until now has granted an unimpeded and notable stability to our government.

6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 12.10.3-12.10.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

12.10.3. And shortly thereafter the city was moved to another site and received another name, its founders being Lampon and Xenocritus; the circumstances of its founding were as follows. The Sybarites who were driven a second time from their native city dispatched ambassadors to Greece, to the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, requesting that they assist their repatriation and take part in the settlement. 12.10.4. Now the Lacedaemonians paid no attention to them, but the Athenians promised to join in the enterprise, and they manned ten ships and sent them to the Sybarites under the leadership of Lampon and Xenocritus; they further sent word to the several cities of the Peloponnesus, offering a share in the colony to anyone who wished to take part in it.

7. Plutarch, Demetrius, 10.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

8. Plutarch, Pericles, 6.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6.2. A story is told that once on a time the head of a one-horned ram was brought to Pericles from his country-place, and that Lampon the seer, when he saw how the horn grew strong and solid from the middle of the forehead, declared that, whereas there were two powerful parties in the city, that of Thucydides and that of Pericles, the mastery would finally devolve upon one man,—the man to whom this sign had been given. Anaxagoras, however, had the skull cut in two, and showed that the brain had not filled out its position, but had drawn together to a point, like an egg, at that particular spot in the entire cavity where the root of the horn began.

9. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.25.6-1.25.8, 1.38.8 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.25.6. On the death of Antipater Olympias came over from Epeirus, killed Aridaeus, and for a time occupied the throne; but shortly afterwards she was besieged by Cassander, taken and delivered up to the people. of the acts of Cassander when he came to the throne my narrative will deal only with such as concern the Athenians. He seized the fort of Panactum in Attica and also Salamis, and established as tyrant in Athens Demetrius the son of Phanostratus, a man who had won a reputation for wisdom. This tyrant was put down by Demetrius the son of Antigonus, a young man of strong Greek sympathies. 1.25.7. But Cassander, inspired by a deep hatred of the Athenians, made a friend of Lachares, who up to now had been the popular champion, and induced him also to arrange a tyranny. We know no tyrant who proved so cruel to man and so impious to the gods. Although Demetrius the son of Antigonus was now at variance with the Athenian people, he notwithstanding deposed Lachares too from his tyranny, who, on the capture of the fortifications, escaped to Boeotia . Lachares took golden shields from the Acropolis, and stripped even the statue of Athena of its removable ornament; he was accordingly suspected of being a very wealthy man 1.25.8. and was murdered by some men of Coronea for the sake of this wealth. After freeing the Athenians from tyrants Demetrius the son of Antigonus did not restore the Peiraeus to them immediately after the flight of Lachares, but subsequently overcame them and brought a garrison even into the upper city, fortifying the place called the Museum. This is a hill right opposite the Acropolis within the old city boundaries, where legend says Musaeus used to sing, and, dying of old age, was buried. Afterwards a monument also was erected here to a Syrian. At the time to which I refer Demetrius fortified and held it. 1.38.8. When you have turned from Eleusis to Boeotia you come to the Plataean land, which borders on Attica . Formerly Eleutherae formed the boundary on the side towards Attica, but when it came over to the Athenians henceforth the boundary of Boeotia was Cithaeron. The reason why the people of Eleutherae came over was not because they were reduced by war, but because they desired to share Athenian citizenship and hated the Thebans. In this plain is a temple of Dionysus, from which the old wooden image was carried off to Athens . The image at Eleutherae at the present day is a copy of the old one.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acknowledge (believe in) gods	Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 237
aristophanes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
athenian,tragedy	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
athenians	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
athens	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
charlatans	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
coining new words	Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 237
comedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
crown,crowned	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
cult,cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
cults,mystery-cult	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
cults,new	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
cults,polis	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
cults	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
dance,dancing,ecstatic,frenzied,maenadic,orgiastic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
death associated with dionysos and dionysian cult or myth	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
demeter	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
dionysism	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
dionysos/dionysus	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
dionysos	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
dionysus	Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 237
divination	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
eros,bacchants,obsession of pentheus with sexual impropriety of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 159
festival,festivity,festive	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
hades place	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
heaven,heavenly	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
hierarchy of means	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hierocles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
homer	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hosios (and cognates),in context of rituals of worship	Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 237
initiation	Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 237
jews,jewish	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
kadmos,kadmeian	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
lampon	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
libation	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
liberation	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
lloyd,michael	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
lydia,xanthus of	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
magos	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
night,nocturnal	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
oedipus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
pentheus	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
pericles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plague	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plutarch	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
prophet	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
ptolemy iv philopator	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
punishment	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
rite,ritual	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
sacred and profane meaning of hosios	Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 237
segal,c. p.	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
sophism of teiresias in bacchae	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
suppliant women bacchae compared	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
susanetti,davide	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 159
symposium	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
taplin,oliver	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
teiresias	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
the paphlagonians),,king magistrate	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
thebes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
timai (of gods)	Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 237
tragedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
tyranny,theagenes	Papadodima (2022), Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II, 64
wine'	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460
women in greek culture greek misogyny and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 159
yahweh	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 460