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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



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Euripides, Electra, 25


ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ τοῦτ' ἦν φόβου πολλοῦ πλέωνWhen even this filled him with great fear, that she might secretly bear children to some noble lord, Aegisthus planned to kill her, but her mother, although cruel at heart, rescued her from his hand. For she had a pretext for having slain her husband


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

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1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 229-247, 228 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

228. λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρῴους 228. Prayings and callings q type=
2. Euripides, Electra, 1287, 132-134, 253-259, 26, 260-261, 27-32, 322, 33-40, 404-405, 41-48, 481, 49-53, 572, 58, 600, 645, 67, 677, 68, 683, 69-70, 778-843, 1286 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1286. καὶ τὸν λόγῳ σὸν πενθερὸν κομιζέτω
3. Euripides, Helen, 1667-1677, 1666 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1666. ὅταν δὲ κάμψῃς καὶ τελευτήσῃς βίον


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aegisthus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
aeschylus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 1028
agamemnon, oresteia Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 927
argos Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
battle Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
burial Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
characters, minor Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914, 927
electra Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914, 927
epic Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
funerary practice Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
gender, women Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
greece Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
hermes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914
hippolytus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914
hosios Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
hubris, of tantalus and his descendants Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
justice, dikaios opposite of mysaros in euripides Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
kakos, thinking evil thoughts/badly Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
kyriakou, p. xxii Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 914, 927
libation Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
material culture Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
matricide, and exile of the matricides Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
miastor Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
military Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
monuments Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
orestes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 927; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in euripides electra Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
phronein hosia, in euripides electra Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
poetry Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
ritual Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
roisman, h.m. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 1028
sacrifice, animal, aegisthus in euripides electra' Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 229
slavery Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
sophocles, electra Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 927
sophocles Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 1028
tragedy Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
visual art Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183
war Ammann et al., Collective Violence and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) 183