Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Euripides, Hecuba, 255
ζηλοῦτε τιμάς: μηδὲ γιγνώσκοισθέ μοι for your oratory. Oh that you were unknown to me! you who harm your friends and think no more of it, if you can say a word to win the mob. But tell me, what kind of cleverness did they think it, when against this child they passed their bloody vote?

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

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1. Euripides, Bacchae, 267-283, 328-329, 266 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 266. ὅταν λάβῃ τις τῶν λόγων ἀνὴρ σοφὸς 266. Whenever a wise man takes a good occasion for his speech, it is not a great task to speak well. You have a rapid tongue as though you were sensible, but there is no sense in your words.
2. Euripides, Hecuba, 1188-1191, 254, 1187 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1187. ̓Αγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε 1187. Never ought words to have outweighed deeds in this world, Agamemnon. No! if a man’s deeds were good, so should his words have been;
3. Sophocles, Antigone, 1272-1275, 175-190, 192-193, 1271 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
anger,vs. wisdom	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731
demosthenes,on creon	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731
enlightenment,politics and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
hubris	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731
kings,vs. tyrants	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731
language,rhetoric	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
phthonos	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731
rhetoric	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
sophia,wisdom ambivalence of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
sophism of teiresias in bacchae	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
sunesis'	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 146
thucydides (politician),on anger	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731
tyrant,vs. king	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731
wisdom,vs. anger/judgment	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731