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Euripides, Helen, 55-59

πόσιν συνάψαι πόλεμον ̔́Ελλησιν μέγαν.

and brought a great war to the Hellenes. Why then am I still alive? I heard the god Hermes declare that I would yet live in the glorious country of Sparta , with my husband—for Hermes knew I never went to Ilion—so that I would not go to bed with another man.

τί δῆτ' ἔτι ζῶ; θεοῦ τόδ' εἰσήκους' ἔπος

̔Ερμοῦ, τὸ κλεινὸν ἔτι κατοικήσειν πέδον

Σπάρτης σὺν ἀνδρί, γνόντος ὡς ἐς ̓́Ιλιον

οὐκ ἦλθον, ἵνα μὴ λέκτρ' ὑποστρώσω τινί.

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

11 results

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

1032. μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν ̓Αργόθεν πορευθεὶς

2. 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.

3. Euripides, Electra, 899 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Euripides, Hecuba, 244, 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;

5. Euripides, Helen, 10-11, 118, 12, 1240, 1243, 13, 132, 138, 14-16, 160-161, 164-169, 17, 170-173, 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, 56-59, 6, 60-67, 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

6. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 181 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. 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

8. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1007-1008, 1214, 1260, 900-974, 1006 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 1450-1461, 369, 1449 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Euripides, Orestes, 383-469, 479-481, 491-541, 544, 671-716, 382 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 4.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

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
agon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
alexandros	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
andromache	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
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
captatio benevolentiae	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
cultural interconnection, greek-egyptian	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
delphi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
dik, h.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
duchemin, j.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
euripides	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
exordium	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
helen	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
hyperbaton	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
iphigenia at aulis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
lloyd, m.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
menelaus	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
paradox, herodotus and	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
paris and helen	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89
priam	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
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
rhetoric	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
rhetorical aporia	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
ritual	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
scullion, s.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
slander	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
speaker	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 89
stern, j.p.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 617
supplication	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
trojan war, egyptian story of	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 89