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Euripides, Ion, 589-592

ἄκουσον. εἶναί φασι τὰς αὐτόχθονας

Things assume a different form according as we see them before us, or far off. I am glad at what has happened, since I have found in thee a father; but hear me on some points which I am now deciding.

κλεινὰς ̓Αθήνας οὐκ ἐπείσακτον γένος

Athens, I am told,—that glorious city of a native race,—owns no aliens; in which case I shall force my entrance there under a twofold disadvantage, as an alien’s son and base-born as I am. Branded with this reproach, while as yet I am unsupported, I shall get the name of a mere nobody, a son of nobodies;

ἵν' ἐσπεσοῦμαι δύο νόσω κεκτημένος

πατρός τ' ἐπακτοῦ καὐτὸς ὢν νοθαγενής.

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

11 results

1. Aristophanes, Wasps, 1076-1080, 1075 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1075. ἐσμὲν ἡμεῖς, οἷς πρόσεστι τοῦτο τοὐρροπύγιον

2. Euripides, Archelaus (Fragmenta Papyracea), 360.8, 360.13 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Euripides, Fragments, 360 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Euripides, Ion, 1000-1019, 102-105, 1058-1060, 1069-1073, 1163-1165, 1463-1467, 1478, 1528-1529, 1531, 1553-1565, 1571-1575, 1601-1603, 171-175, 184-187, 20, 205-209, 21, 210-218, 22-23, 237-239, 24, 240, 267-282, 29, 290, 293, 30, 585-588, 590-592, 595-606, 621-632, 645, 67, 670-675, 68-69, 692-693, 70-71, 719, 72, 720-724, 73-75, 94-97, 999, 10 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. there did Phoebus force his love on Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, beneath the rock of Pallas, northward of Athens’ steep realm, called Macrae by the kings of Attica. And she without her father’s knowledge—for such was the god’s good pleasure,—

5. Euripides, Medea, 825 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

825. children of the blessed gods, fed on wisdom’s glorious food in a holy land ne’er pillaged by its foes, ye who move with sprightly step through a climate ever bright

6. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 217-219, 244-248, 282, 4-6, 638-648, 216 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Herodotus, Histories, 1.56.2, 7.161.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1.56.2. He found by inquiry that the chief peoples were the Lacedaemonians among those of Doric, and the Athenians among those of Ionic stock. These races, Ionian and Dorian, were the foremost in ancient time, the first a Pelasgian and the second a Hellenic people. The Pelasgian race has never yet left its home; the Hellenic has wandered often and far. 7.161.3. It would be for nothing, then, that we possess the greatest number of seafaring men in Hellas, if we Athenians yield our command to Syracusans,—we who can demonstrate the longest lineage of all and who alone among the Greeks have never changed our place of habitation; of our stock too was the man of whom the poet Homer says that of all who came to Ilion, he was the best man in ordering and marshalling armies. We accordingly cannot be reproached for what we now say. ”

8. Isocrates, Panathenaicus, 124 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

9. Isocrates, Orations, 4.24 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

10. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.2.5-1.2.6, 2.36.1, 6.17.2-6.17.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.2.5. Accordingly Attica, from the poverty of its soil enjoying from a very remote period freedom from faction, never changed its inhabitants. 1.2.6. And here is no inconsiderable exemplification of my assertion, that the migrations were the cause of there being no correspondent growth in other parts. The most powerful victims of war or faction from the rest of Hellas took refuge with the Athenians as a safe retreat; and at an early period, becoming naturalized, swelled the already large population of the city to such a height that Attica became at last too small to hold them, and they had to send out colonies to Ionia . 2.36.1. I shall begin with our ancestors: it is both just and proper that they should have the honor of the first mention on an occasion like the present. They dwelt in the country without break in the succession from generation to generation, and handed it down free to the present time by their valor. 6.17.2. Neither rescind your resolution to sail to Sicily, on the ground that you would be going to attack a great power. The cities in Sicily are peopled by motley rabbles, and easily change their institutions and adopt new ones in their stead; 6.17.3. and consequently the inhabitants, being without any feeling of patriotism, are not provided with arms for their persons, and have not regularly established themselves on the land; every man thinks that either by fair words or by party strife he can obtain something at the public expense, and then in the event of a catastrophe settle in some other country, and makes his preparations accordingly.

11. Demosthenes, Funeral Oration, 4 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 247, 248, 878, 923
athena	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 247, 248, 878, 923
athenians, foundation legend	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
athens, and athenian identity	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 217
athens, imperialism (athenian)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
athens	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 247, 248
autochthony, and exclusiveness	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107
autochthony, as indigenous nature	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
autochthony, complete notion of	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
autochthony, metaphor of the family	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107
autochthony, of athenians	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
autochthony, of the athenians	Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 118
autochthony	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 217
barbarians, greeks and	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
characters, minor	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 923
citizen, citizenship	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
conflict with ion	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107
creusa, in-born	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 217
degeneration, caused by mixed marriages	Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 118
delphi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
descent and lineage, greek views on	Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 118
deus ex machina	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
epeisaktos	Van der Horst, Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (2014) 61
erechtheus, and eumolpus	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
euripides ion, xuthus critique of autochthony	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107
exclusion, of outsiders from athens	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 217
fictive founder	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
foreign, foreigner	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107
foundation legends, athenians and	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
foundation legends, thebes	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
gibert, j. xxi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 247, 248
helen	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 923
hermes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 247, 878
identity, in eur. ion, athens, athens	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 217
identity	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
ion	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 247, 248
josephus	Van der Horst, Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (2014) 61
kyriakou, p. xxii	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 923
menexenus	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
mills, s. xxiv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 878
mixed populations, regarded as harmful to the state	Isaac, The invention of racism in classical antiquity (2004) 118
noble lie, as origin of cadmus'	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
nurses	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 923
oaths	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 923
pericles, citizenship law	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
pericles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 247
pythia	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 923
thebes and thebans, foundation legend	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
tyre	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 236
xuthus, as foreigner	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 217