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Euripides, Hecuba, 894-897


τοὺς ἐξ ἐκείνης. — τὸν δὲ τῆς νεοσφαγοῦςTo a servant And you are to draw near my Thracian friend and say, Hecuba, once queen of Ilium , summons you, on your own business no less than hers, your children too, for they also must hear what she has to say. The servant goes out. Defer awhile, Agamemnon


Πολυξένης ἐπίσχες, ̓Αγάμεμνον, τάφονthe burial of Polyxena lately slain, so that brother and sister may be laid on the same pyre and buried side by side, a double cause of sorrow to their mother. Agamemnon


ὡς τώδ' ἀδελφὼ πλησίον μιᾷ φλογίthe burial of Polyxena lately slain, so that brother and sister may be laid on the same pyre and buried side by side, a double cause of sorrow to their mother. Agamemnon


δισσὴ μέριμνα μητρί, κρυφθῆτον χθονί.the burial of Polyxena lately slain, so that brother and sister may be laid on the same pyre and buried side by side, a double cause of sorrow to their mother. Agamemnon


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1. Euripides, Alcestis, 426-429, 611-612, 614-635, 743-744, 862-863, 866-867, 869-871, 897-902, 911, 916-919, 922, 926-928, 425 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

425. Ho! sirrahs, catch me this woman; hold her fast; for ’tis no welcome story she will have to hear. It was to make thee leave the holy altar of the goddess that I held thy child’s death before thy eyes, and so induced thee to give thyself up to me to die.
2. Euripides, Andromache, 1117-1172, 1176, 1187, 1211, 1218, 1226-1242, 1263-1270, 319-332, 1116 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1116. εἷς ἦν ἁπάντων τῶνδε μηχανορράφος.
3. Euripides, Bacchae, 1217-1226, 1285, 1300-1329, 267-271, 1216 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1216. ἕπεσθέ μοι φέροντες ἄθλιον βάρος 1216. Follow me, carrying the miserable burden of Pentheus, follow me, slaves, before the house; exhausted from countless searches, I am bringing his body, for I discovered it in the folds of Kithairon
4. Euripides, Electra, 1277-1280, 1292, 850-851, 877, 899, 1276 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1276. σοὶ μὲν τάδ' εἶπον: τόνδε δ' Αἰγίσθου νέκυν
5. Euripides, Hecuba, 10, 1076-1080, 11, 1114-1115, 1118-1119, 1132-1182, 1187-1199, 12, 1200-1207, 1217-1233, 1240-1251, 1255, 1260, 1267, 1270, 1287-1288, 1292, 13-19, 2, 20-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-59, 6, 610, 616, 661, 669, 675, 678-680, 684-699, 7, 700-732, 736-799, 8, 800-893, 895-899, 9, 900-904, 919, 923-925, 934, 946-949, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. ̔́Ηκω νεκρῶν κευθμῶνα καὶ σκότου πύλας 1. I have come from out of the charnel-house and gates of gloom, where Hades dwells apart from gods, I Polydorus, a son of Hecuba, the daughter of Cisseus, and of Priam. Now my father, when Phrygia ’s capital
6. Euripides, Helen, 1243, 1260, 1291-1300, 1390-1395, 1400, 1408, 1419, 1528, 1542-1604, 1240 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1240. τί δ'; ἔστ' ἀπόντων τύμβος; ἢ θάψεις σκιάν; 1240. What? Is there a tomb for the absent? Or will you bury a shadow? Helen
7. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 1027-1045, 1159-1162, 1026 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1026. rend= Bury my body after death in its destined grave in front of the shrine of the virgin goddess Pallas. at Pallene. And I will be thy friend and guardian of thy city for ever, where I lie buried in a foreign soil, but a bitter foe to these children’s descendants, whensoe’er Referring to invasions by the Peloponnesians, descendants of the Heracleidae. with gathered host they come against this land, traitors to your kindness now; such are the strangers ye have championed. Why then came I hither, if I knew all this, instead of regarding the god’s oracle? Because I thought, that Hera was mightier far than any oracle, and would not betray me. Waste no drink-offering on my tomb, nor spill the victim’s blood; for I will requite them for my treatment here with a journey they shall rue; and ye shall have double gain from me, for I will help you and harm them by my death. Alcmena 1026. Slay me, I do not ask thee for mercy; yet since this city let me go and shrunk from slaying me, I will reward it with an old oracle of Loxias, which in time will benefit them more than doth appear.
8. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 1359-1366, 1358 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Euripides, Medea, 1378-1383, 1377 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1377. Give up to me those dead, to bury and lament Medea
10. Euripides, Orestes, 1431-1436, 97-99, 114 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1486-1529, 1485 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1485. I do not veil my tender cheek shaded with curls, nor do I feel shame, from maiden modesty, at the dark red beneath my eyes, the blush upon my face, as I hurry on, in bacchic revelry for the dead
12. Euripides, Rhesus, 639 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

639. And soft shall be my words to him I hate.
13. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 754-759, 778-836, 841-843, 846-931, 934-935, 950-954, 1064 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1064. What dost thou say? What is this silly riddle thou propoundest? Evadne
14. Euripides, Trojan Women, 1134-1146, 1156-1206, 1240-1245, 1248-1250, 735-739, 1133 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

15. Vergil, Aeneis, 3.62-3.63, 3.67-3.68 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.62. was kin of thine. This blood is not of trees. 3.63. Haste from this murderous shore, this land of greed. 3.67. to all these deadly javelins, keen and strong.” 3.68. Then stood I, burdened with dark doubt and fear
16. Tacitus, Annals, 1.2.2, 1.9.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aetiology Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
alcestis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
andromache Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
antiphon, anti-rhetoric Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
athens Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 160, 834
augustus Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
charis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 160
children of heracles (heraclidae) Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
corruption, in politics Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
deception, and tragedy Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
deception, association with rhetoric Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
delphi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
doxa (seeming, opinion, reputation) Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
eidôla, as prologues Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
eidôla, in tragedy Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
eidôla Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
electra Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
euripides, andromache, doxa in Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, andromache Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, eidôla Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
euripides, gorgianic elements in Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, hecuba Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, hecubas rhetoric in Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on (im)materiality of lies Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on doxa and deception Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on lie-detection Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on rhetoric of anti-rhetoric Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides, on spartans Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
euripides Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
funerals Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
gorgias, and euripides Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, encomium of helen Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, his definition of doxa Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, role within fifth-century enlightenment Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gorgias, theory of apate Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
gregory, j. xxi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 160
hecuba (hecabe) Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 160, 834
helen Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
hera Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
heracles Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
iphigenia in tauris Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
materiality, in euripides, of discourse Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
materiality, in euripides Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
medea Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
menelaus Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
mêchanê Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
nomos Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
persuasion ( peitho ) Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
polydorus Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
rehm, r. xxv Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
rhetoric, of anti-rhetoric Hesk, Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens (2000) 283
ritual Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
rohde, e. Rutter and Sparkes, Word and Image in Ancient Greece (2012) 158
suppliant women (supplices) Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
tacitus Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
trojan women (troades) Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834
tzanetou, a. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 160
vergil, aeneid Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
vergil, and corrupt murder trials Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 107
weddings' Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 834