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Euripides, Ion, 673-675

καθαρὰν γὰρ ἤν τις ἐς πόλιν πέσῃ ξένος

and, if I may make the prayer, Oh may that mother be a daughter of Athens! that from-her I may inherit freedom of speech. For if a stranger settle in a city free from aliens, e’en though in name he be a citizen

κἂν τοῖς λόγοισιν ἀστὸς ᾖ, τό γε στόμα

δοῦλον πέπαται κοὐκ ἔχει παρρησίαν.

yet doth he find him-setf tongue-tied and debarred from open utterance. [Exit Ion. Choru

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1. Euripides, Bacchae, 669-671, 668 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

668. θέλω δʼ ἀκοῦσαι, πότερά σοι παρρησίᾳ

2. Euripides, Electra, 1056-1059, 1055 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1055. μέμνησο, μῆτερ, οὓς ἔλεξας ὑστάτους

1055. Remember, mother, those last words of yours, giving me frankness towards you. Clytemnestra

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

4. Euripides, Hecuba, 235-238, 234 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

234. εἰ δ' ἔστι τοῖς δούλοισι τοὺς ἐλευθέρους

5. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 182-183, 181 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

181. ἄναξ, ὑπάρχει γὰρ τόδ' ἐν τῇ σῇ χθονί

181. rend= for we no longer have aught to do with Argos since that decree was passed, but we are exiles from our native land; how then can he justly drag us back as subjects of Mycenae, Mycenae and Argos are used indiscrimately, in the same way that Euripides elsewhere speaks of Greeks as Argives, Achaeans, Hellenes, etc., without distinction. seeing that they have banished us? For we are strangers. Or do ye claim that every exile from Argos is exiled from the bounds of Hellas? Not from Athens surely; for ne’er will she for fear of Argos drive the children of Heracles from her land. Here is no Trachis, not at all; no! nor that Achaean town, whence thou, defying justice, but boasting of the might of Argos in the very words thou now art using, didst drive the suppliants from their station at the altar. If this shall be, and they thy words approve, why then I trow this is no more Athens, the home of freedom. Nay, but I know the temper and nature of these citizens; they would rather die, for honour ranks before mere life with men of worth. Enough of Athens! for excessive praise is apt to breed disgust; and oft ere now I have myself felt vexed at praise that knows no bounds. But to thee, as ruler of this land, I fain would show the reason why thou art bound to save these children. Pittheus was the son of Pelops; from him sprung Aethra, and from her Theseus thy sire was born. And now will I trace back these children’s lineage for thee. Heracles was son of Zeus and Alcmena; Alcmena sprang from Pelops’ daughter; therefore thy father and their father would be the sons of first cousins. Thus then art thou to them related, O Demophon, but thy just debt to them beyond the ties of kinship do I now declare to thee; for I assert, in days gone by, I was with Theseus on the ship, as their father’s squire, when they went to fetch that girdle fraught with death; yea, and from Hades’ murky dungeons did Heracles bring thy father up; as all Hellas doth attest. The following six lines have been condemned by the joint verdict of Paley, Porson, and Dindorf. Wherefore in return they crave this boon of thee, that they be not surrendered up nor torn by force from the altars of thy gods and cast forth from the land. For this were shame on thee, and This line as it stands has a syllable too many for the metre. Hermann omits τε . Wecklein inserts τῇ and omits κακόν . hurtful likewise in thy state, should suppliants, exiles, kith and kin of thine, be haled away by force. For pity’s sake! cast one glance at them. I do entreat thee, laying my suppliant bough upon thee, by thy hands and beard, slight not the sons of Heracles, now that thou hast them in thy power to help. Show thyself their kinsman and their friend; be to them father, brother, lord; for better each and all of these than to fall beneath the Argives’ hand. Choru 181. O king, in thy land I start with this advantage, the right to hear and speak in turn, and none, ere that, will drive me hence as elsewhere they would. ’Twixt us and him is naught in common

6. Euripides, Hippolytus, 105, 419-425, 49-57, 73-87, 89, 102 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

102. I greet her from afar, preserving still my chastity. Att

7. Euripides, Ion, 1056-1060, 1463-1467, 1561-1562, 1573-1575, 1601-1603, 20, 205-218, 267-274, 277-282, 29-30, 589-592, 670-672, 674-675, 692-693, 999-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1000. Him whom Earth produced, the founder of thy race? Creusa

8. Euripides, Orestes, 545-550, 544 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

544. Old man, I am afraid to speak before you

9. Euripides, Trojan Women, 904-913, 903 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

903. May I answer this decision, proving that my death, if I am to die, will be unjust? Menelau

10. 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. ”

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

12. Sophocles, Ajax, 1329-1331, 1328 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

13. Sophocles, Electra, 553-557, 552 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

14. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 544, 543 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

15. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.2.5-1.2.6, 2.36.1 (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.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 248
athena	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 248
athens, and athenian identity	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219, 220
athens, pure	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219, 220
athens	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 110, 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
boundaries, (not) infringed	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219
carter, d.m. xix	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 110
characters, tragic/mythical, agamemnon	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
characters, tragic/mythical, clytemnestra	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
characters, tragic/mythical, creon, king of thebes	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
characters, tragic/mythical, electra	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
characters, tragic/mythical, hecuba	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
characters, tragic/mythical, odysseus	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
characters, tragic/mythical, oedipus	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
characters, tragic/mythical, orestes	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
children of heracles (heraclidae)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 110
cithaeron, mt.	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
citizen, citizenship	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
citizenship, in eur. ion	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219, 220
citizenship, periclean citizenship law	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219
conflict with ion	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107
demosthenes	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
eleutheria	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 110
erechtheus, and eumolpus	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
euripides, parrhosia	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
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) 219
foreign, foreigner	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 107
gibert, j. xxi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 248
identity, in eur. ion, athens, athens	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219, 220
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) 248
isêgoria	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 110
motifs, in postclassical tragedy, burial of the dead	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
motifs, in postclassical tragedy, parrhosia	Liapis and Petrides, Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca (2019) 284
parrhêsia	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 110
pericles, citizenship law	Barbato, The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (2020) 87
purity, ethnic	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219, 220
space, athens	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 219
women, importance of, in ion'	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 220