Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Euripides, Orestes, 333-339
τίς ἔλεος, τίς ὅδ' ἀγὼν O Zeus! What pity, what deadly struggle is here
φόνιος ἔρχεται O Zeus! What pity, what deadly struggle is here
θοάζων σε τὸν μέλεον, ᾧ δάκρυα hurrying you on, the wretch on whom some avenging fiend is heaping tears upon tears, bringing to the house your mother’s blood, which drives you raving mad?
δάκρυσι συμβάλλει hurrying you on, the wretch on whom some avenging fiend is heaping tears upon tears, bringing to the house your mother’s blood, which drives you raving mad?
πορεύων τις ἐς δόμον ἀλαστόρων hurrying you on, the wretch on whom some avenging fiend is heaping tears upon tears, bringing to the house your mother’s blood, which drives you raving mad?
ματέρος αἷμα σᾶς, ὅ ς' ἀναβακχεύει; hurrying you on, the wretch on whom some avenging fiend is heaping tears upon tears, bringing to the house your mother’s blood, which drives you raving mad?
κατολοφύρομαι κατολοφύρομαι. hurrying you on, the wretch on whom some avenging fiend is heaping tears upon tears, bringing to the house your mother’s blood, which drives you raving mad?

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

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1. Euripides, Orestes, 1259-1260, 1264-1265, 1303, 1305-1306, 1352-1365, 193, 314-315, 331, 334-339, 479-481, 492-541, 608-629, 75-76, 812, 819, 823, 968-970, 1258 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1258. Let us make haste and go on; I will keep careful watch upon this road towards the east. Second Semi-Choru

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
androtion	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 526; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
argos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 225
characters	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 526
deus ex machina	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 526
divine punishment/retribution	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
hosios	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
hubris, hippolytus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
intertextuality	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 526
justice, of matricide	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
madness, in the orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219
matricide, resulting in pollution	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 225
menelaus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 225
orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 225
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
pucci, p. xxv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 526
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, 225
sacrifice, animal, pre-battle	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219
sophia	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 526
supplication, and purification of homicide	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 219, 225
supplication, in the orestes'	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
tyndareus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
zeus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 526