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Euripides, Orestes, 284-293
σὺ μὲν γὰρ ἐπένευσας τάδ', εἴργασται δ' ἐμοὶ Sister, why do you weep, your head wrapped in your robe? I am ashamed that I should make you a partner in my sufferings and distress a maiden like you through my sickness. Do not waste away over my troubles; for though you consented to it, yet I was the one that spilled
μητρῷον αἷμα: Λοξίᾳ δὲ μέμφομαι our mother’s blood. I blame Loxias, for urging me on to do a deed most unholy, encouraging me with words but not in deed. I believe that, if I had asked my father to his face whether I must slay my mother
ὅστις μ' ἐπάρας ἔργον ἀνοσιώτατον our mother’s blood. I blame Loxias, for urging me on to do a deed most unholy, encouraging me with words but not in deed. I believe that, if I had asked my father to his face whether I must slay my mother
τοῖς μὲν λόγοις ηὔφρανε, τοῖς δ' ἔργοισιν οὔ. our mother’s blood. I blame Loxias, for urging me on to do a deed most unholy, encouraging me with words but not in deed. I believe that, if I had asked my father to his face whether I must slay my mother
οἶμαι δὲ πατέρα τὸν ἐμόν, εἰ κατ' ὄμματα our mother’s blood. I blame Loxias, for urging me on to do a deed most unholy, encouraging me with words but not in deed. I believe that, if I had asked my father to his face whether I must slay my mother
ἐξιστόρουν νιν, μητέρ' εἰ κτεῖναι χρεών our mother’s blood. I blame Loxias, for urging me on to do a deed most unholy, encouraging me with words but not in deed. I believe that, if I had asked my father to his face whether I must slay my mother
πολλὰς γενείου τοῦδ' ἂν ἐκτεῖναι λιτὰς he would have strongly entreated me, by this beard, never to plunge a sword into her throat, since he would not regain his life, and I, poor wretch, would accomplish such evil!
μήποτε τεκούσης ἐς σφαγὰς ὦσαι ξίφος he would have strongly entreated me, by this beard, never to plunge a sword into her throat, since he would not regain his life, and I, poor wretch, would accomplish such evil!
εἰ μήτ' ἐκεῖνος ἀναλαβεῖν ἔμελλε φῶς he would have strongly entreated me, by this beard, never to plunge a sword into her throat, since he would not regain his life, and I, poor wretch, would accomplish such evil!
ἐγώ θ' ὁ τλήμων τοιάδ' ἐκπλήσειν κακά. he would have strongly entreated me, by this beard, never to plunge a sword into her throat, since he would not regain his life, and I, poor wretch, would accomplish such evil!

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1. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1025, 1027-1028, 1046-1059, 1061, 1063, 1065-1076, 1024 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1024. φρένες δύσαρκτοι· πρὸς δὲ καρδίᾳ φόβος
2. Euripides, Electra, 1207, 1206 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1206. κατεῖδες, οἷον ἁ τάλαιν' ἔξω πέπλων 1206. Did you see how the unhappy one threw off her robe and showed her bosom in the slaughter, alas, hurling to the ground the limbs that gave me birth? And her hair, I— Choru
3. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1136 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1136. O fate revered, O destiny, and my fortune! Clytemnestra
4. Euripides, Orestes, 1333-1343, 1625-1665, 228, 238, 255-275, 283, 285-293, 314-315, 321, 38, 380-459, 46, 460-467, 47, 479, 48, 480-481, 49, 492-499, 50, 500-541, 546-547, 566-571, 579-584, 1332 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1332. Yes, a suppliant cried out as he fell at Helen’s knees— Hermione

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeschylus, priestesses	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222, 223
aeschylus	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 91
agamemnon	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 223
androtion	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219
apollo, orestes and oracle of, in electra	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 91
apollo	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222, 223
areopagus, homicide court	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
argive assembly	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200
argos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 222
conscience	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
daimo¯n (divine force)	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 91
emotions	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200
euripides	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200
exile	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222
hosios	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 223
hypotheticals	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200
kin-killing	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222, 223
madness, in the orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 222, 223
matricide, resulting in pollution	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 222, 223
menelaus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 222, 223
metalepsis, of orestes in electra	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 91
murder	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200
music/song, murder of clytemnestra in electra and	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 91
orestes	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200, 222; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 222, 223
purity, of the leader	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219
pylades	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 222
revenge	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 200
sacrifice, animal, pre-battle	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219
sex, shame-culture/ guilt-culture	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 223
sin, dodds on	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 223
sophia, wisdom as means of surviving human tragedy	Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 91
supplication, and purification of homicide	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 222, 223
supplication, in the orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222, 223
synesis/syneidesis/syneidos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222, 223
transmigration, in empedocles, sparta'	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 222