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Euripides, Medea, 238-247

ἐς καινὰ δ' ἤθη καὶ νόμους ἀφιγμένην

and herein lies the most important issue, whether our choice be good or bad. For divorce is discreditable to women, nor can we disown our lords. Next must the wife, coming as she does to ways and customs new, since she hath not learnt the lesson in her home, have a diviner’s eye to see

δεῖ μάντιν εἶναι, μὴ μαθοῦσαν οἴκοθεν

ὅπως ἄριστα χρήσεται ξυνευνέτῃ.

how best to treat the partner of her life. If haply we perform these tasks with thoroughness and tact, and the husband live with us, without resenting the yoke, our life is a happy one; if not, ’twere best to die. But when a man is vexed with what he finds indoors

κἂν μὲν τάδ' ἡμῖν ἐκπονουμέναισιν εὖ

πόσις ξυνοικῇ μὴ βίᾳ φέρων ζυγόν

ζηλωτὸς αἰών: εἰ δὲ μή, θανεῖν χρεών.

ἀνὴρ δ', ὅταν τοῖς ἔνδον ἄχθηται ξυνών

ἔξω μολὼν ἔπαυσε καρδίαν ἄσης

he goeth forth and rids his soul of its disgust, betaking him to some friend or comrade of like age; whilst we must needs regard his single self.

[ἢ πρὸς φίλον τιν' ἢ πρὸς ἥλικα τραπείς]:

he goeth forth and rids his soul of its disgust, betaking him to some friend or comrade of like age; whilst we must needs regard his single self.

ἡμῖν δ' ἀνάγκη πρὸς μίαν ψυχὴν βλέπειν.

he goeth forth and rids his soul of its disgust, betaking him to some friend or comrade of like age; whilst we must needs regard his single self.

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

8 results

1. Homer, Iliad, 6.490-6.493, 11.740 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

6.490. /Nay, go thou to the house and busy thyself with thine own tasks, the loom and the distaff, and bid thy handmaids ply their work: but war shall be for men, for all, but most of all for me, of them that dwell in Ilios. So spake glorious Hector and took up his helm 6.491. /Nay, go thou to the house and busy thyself with thine own tasks, the loom and the distaff, and bid thy handmaids ply their work: but war shall be for men, for all, but most of all for me, of them that dwell in Ilios. So spake glorious Hector and took up his helm 6.492. /Nay, go thou to the house and busy thyself with thine own tasks, the loom and the distaff, and bid thy handmaids ply their work: but war shall be for men, for all, but most of all for me, of them that dwell in Ilios. So spake glorious Hector and took up his helm 6.493. /Nay, go thou to the house and busy thyself with thine own tasks, the loom and the distaff, and bid thy handmaids ply their work: but war shall be for men, for all, but most of all for me, of them that dwell in Ilios. So spake glorious Hector and took up his helm 11.740. /and had to wife his eldest daughter, fair-haired Agamede, who knew all simples that the wide earth nourisheth. Him as he came against me I smote with may bronze-tipped spear, and he fell in the dust; but I leapt upon his chariot and took my stand amid the foremost fighters. But the great-souled Epeians

2. Homer, Odyssey, 5.118-5.129 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 486-487, 11 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. γυναικὸς ἀνδρόβουλον ἐλπίζον κέαρ.

11. The man’s-way-planning hoping heart of woman.

4. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 305 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

305. θήλεια γὰρ φρήν· εἰ δὲ μή, τάχʼ εἴσεται. Χορός

305. For he has a woman’s mind, or if not, it will soon be found out. Chorus

5. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, 749, 748 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

748. μόνην δὲ μὴ πρόλειπε· λίσσομαι, πάτερ.

748. Do not leave me forlorn, I implore you, father. A woman abandoned to herself is nothing. There is no Ares in her.

6. Euripides, Medea, 230-237, 239-251, 255, 260, 263-266, 225 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

225. But on me hath fallen this unforeseen disaster, and sapped my life; ruined I am, and long to resign the boon of existence, kind friends, and die. For he who was all the world to me, as well thou knowest, hath turned out the veriest villain, my own husband.

7. Sophocles, Antigone, 62, 61 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Theocritus, Idylls, 2.10, 2.16, 2.24-2.29, 2.40, 2.69 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
action/activity,nocturnal	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
aegisthus	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
agency	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
alcestis,self-sacrifice setup in	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
andromache	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
aphrodite	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
apollonius of rhodes	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
chorus of agamemnon	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
chorus of suppliants	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
circe	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
citizen,status of	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
clytemnestra	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
comedy	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
community	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
conflict	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
deception	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
division	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
dover,kenneth	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
duncan,anne	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
epinician	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
eros,negative description of marriage in medea and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
eros,rape	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
eros,self,dispossession of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
gender,definitions of	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
grief	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
griffiths,frederick	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
group	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
harmony	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
hector	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
homer,iliad	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
logos	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
love	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
magic	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
marriage,negative description in medea	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
medea	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196; Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
orestes	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
phratria	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
polis	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
rape	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
rhetoric	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
sacrifice,self-sacrifice setup in alcestis	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
seduction,female	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
seduction,male	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
selene	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
self-sacrifice setup in	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
semonides	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
simaetha	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
simile	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
slavery,lament of trojan women in troades over	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
slaves	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
socrates	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
sophocles,antigone.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 391
theocritus	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
theseus	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
thestylis	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
tragedy,and law	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 391
troades lament of enslaved trojan women in	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
truth,and reciprocity	Park (2023), Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus. 73
unity	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
women	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
women in greek culture isolation of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
women in greek culture lament of enslaved trojan women in troades	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71
work	Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 196
xenophon	Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 339
yoke'	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 71