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Euripides, Orestes, 696-697

ὅταν γὰρ ἡβᾷ δῆμος εἰς ὀργὴν πεσών

For when the people fall into a vigorous fury, they are as hard to quench as a raging fire; but if you gently slacken your hold and yield a little to their tension, cautiously watching your opportunity

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10 results

1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 811, 810 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

810. πρῶτον μὲν Ἄργος καὶ θεοὺς ἐγχωρίους

810. First, indeed, placeName key=

2. Euripides, Andromache, 891, 900, 911, 914, 920-950, 1032 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1032. μαντόσυνον, ὅτε νιν ̓Αργόθεν πορευθεὶς

3. Euripides, Bacchae, 1116-1124, 1115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1115. καὶ προσπίτνει νιν· ὃ δὲ μίτραν κόμης ἄπο

1115. and fell upon him. He threw the headband from his head so that the wretched Agave might recognize and not kill him. Touching her cheek, he said: It is I, mother, your son, Pentheus, whom you bore in the house of Echion.

4. Euripides, Helen, 10-11, 118, 12, 1240, 1243, 13, 132, 138, 14-16, 160-161, 164-169, 17, 170-173, 18-19, 198, 2, 20-25, 250, 26, 262-263, 27, 275-276, 28-29, 3, 30, 309, 31-32, 327, 33-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-54, 543, 55-59, 6, 60-67, 7, 73, 8, 894-899, 9, 900-943, 947-948, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. Νείλου μὲν αἵδε καλλιπάρθενοι ῥοαί

1. These are the lovely pure streams of the Nile , which waters the plain and lands of Egypt , fed by white melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus was king of this land when he was alive

5. Euripides, Ion, 1313-1319, 1333-1334, 1312 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1312. Oh! ’tis passing strange how badly the deity hath enacted laws for mortal men, contrary to all sound judgment; for instance, they should ne’er have suffered impious men to sit at their altars

6. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1007-1008, 1214, 1260, 900-974, 1006 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 369 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Euripides, Orestes, 1079, 1105, 1157, 119, 1191-1204, 1408-1415, 1539-1540, 1625-1665, 1682-1683, 255-275, 356-359, 380-469, 479, 48, 480-481, 491-541, 544, 591-598, 612, 614-618, 622, 657, 665-668, 671-695, 697-716, 729-730, 884, 974-975, 1072 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1072. Do you ask? What is life to me without your companionship? Oreste

9. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 997 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Epigraphy, Didyma, 233

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
agamemnon	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
andromache	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
apollo	Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 214; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
argos	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
aristophanes, frogs	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
artemis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
assembly, trials in	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
bacchae	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
deliberation, dysfunctional	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
delphi	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
demos, judgment by	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
demos, success of	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
euripides, as anti-democratic	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
euripides, demos judgment of	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
euripides, dramas by\n, orestes	Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 214
euripides, dramas by\n, phoenissae	Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 214
euripides, orestes	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
exile	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
helen	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
iphigenia at aulis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
madness, in the orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
matricide, resulting in pollution	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
menelaus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
naiden, f.	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
orestes	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
orestes (hero)	Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 214
philotimia	Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 214
pylades	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
pylades (hero)	Csapo et al., Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World (2022) 214
rehm, r. xxv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
ritual	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
success, of the demos, as result of deliberation	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159
supplication, and purification of homicide	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
supplication, in the orestes'	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
supplication	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 826
tyndareus	Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 221
tyranny, euripides on	Major, The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens(2013) 159