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Euripides, Helen, 17


Σπάρτη, πατὴρ δὲ Τυνδάρεως: ἔστιν δὲ δὴMy own fatherland, Sparta , is not without fame, and my father is Tyndareus; but there is indeed a story that Zeus flew to my mother Leda, taking the form of a bird, a swan


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

8 results
1. Homer, Odyssey, 11.235-11.259, 24.199 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

2. Euripides, Andromache, 891, 900, 911, 914, 920-950, 1032 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1032. μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν ̓Αργόθεν πορευθεὶς
3. Euripides, Bacchae, 1116-1124, 1115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1115. καὶ προσπίτνει νιν· ὃ δὲ μίτραν κόμης ἄπο 1115. and fell upon him. He threw the headband from his head so that the wretched Agave might recognize and not kill him. Touching her cheek, he said: It is I, mother, your son, Pentheus, whom you bore in the house of Echion.
4. Euripides, Helen, 10-11, 118, 12, 1240, 1243, 13, 132, 138, 14-16, 160-161, 164-173, 18-19, 198, 2, 20-25, 250, 26, 262-263, 27, 275-276, 28-29, 3, 30, 309, 31-32, 327, 33-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-54, 543, 55-58, 588, 59, 6, 60-67, 690, 7, 73, 8, 894-899, 9, 900-943, 947-948, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. Νείλου μὲν αἵδε καλλιπάρθενοι ῥοαί 1. These are the lovely pure streams of the Nile , which waters the plain and lands of Egypt , fed by white melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus was king of this land when he was alive
5. Euripides, Ion, 1313-1319, 1333-1334, 1312 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1312. Oh! ’tis passing strange how badly the deity hath enacted laws for mortal men, contrary to all sound judgment; for instance, they should ne’er have suffered impious men to sit at their altars
6. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1007-1008, 1214, 1260, 900-974, 1006 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 369 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Euripides, Orestes, 382-469, 479-481, 491-541, 544, 671-716, 1691 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1691. Greatly revered Victory, may you occupy my life, and never cease to crown me!


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aetiology Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
agamemnon, eumenides Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
agamemnon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 321
andromache Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
aphrodite Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 321
apollo Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
apollodorus, and tyro Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
artemis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
athena Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
athens Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
bacchae Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
cultural interconnection, greek-egyptian Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
delphi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
euripides, helen Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 289
fragments, of sophocles works Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
gorgias Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 289
griffiths, e. xxi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 321
helen, in euripides Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 289
helen Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 321, 826
iliad Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 321
iphigenia at aulis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
lloyd, m. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
logos, and truth Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 289
menelaus Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89; Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 289
odyssey Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 321
odyssey (homer), and tyro Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
orestes (euripides), and tyndareus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
paradox, herodotus and Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
paris and helen Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
pelias Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
plays, lost Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
priests, of memphis' Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
proteus Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
realism Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
rehm, r. xxv Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
ritual Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
scullion, s. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
sidero Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
sophocles, lost plays and fragments of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
stern, j.p. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
supplication Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
tragedy Pamias, Apollodoriana: Ancient Myths, New Crossroads (2017) 83
trojan war, egyptian story of Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
truth, and logos Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 289
tundareos, tyndareus (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
turo, tyro (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 605
twinning, in euripides helen Steiner, Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought (2001) 289
zeus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 321