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Euripides, Orestes, 75-76


προσφθέγμασιν γὰρ οὐ μιαίνομαι σέθενFor referring the sin as I do to Phoebus, I incur no pollution by addressing you; and yet I am truly sorry for the death of my sister Clytemnestra, whom I never saw after I was driven by heaven-sent frenzy to sail as I did to Ilium ;


ἐς Φοῖβον ἀναφέρουσα τὴν ἁμαρτίαν.For referring the sin as I do to Phoebus, I incur no pollution by addressing you; and yet I am truly sorry for the death of my sister Clytemnestra, whom I never saw after I was driven by heaven-sent frenzy to sail as I did to Ilium ;


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

4 results
1. Euripides, Hippolytus, 617-626, 653-655, 616 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

616. Great Zeus, why didst thou, to man’s sorrow, put woman, evil counterfeit, to dwell where shines the sun? If thou wert minded that the human race should multiply, it was not from women they should have drawn their stock
2. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 951 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Euripides, Orestes, 1259-1260, 1264-1265, 1303, 1305-1306, 1352-1365, 1604, 193, 314-315, 331, 333-339, 46-47, 479, 48, 480-481, 492-541, 597-598, 608-629, 76, 812, 819, 823, 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
4. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 945-946, 964, 977, 944 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)



Subjects of this text:

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akon Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
aphrodite, in the hippolytus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
apollo, responsible for matricide Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 144
apollo Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
argos Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
artemis Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
conscience Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 144
divine punishment/retribution Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
draco, edict of excommunication Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 178
exclusion, of murderer Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 178
hagneia, as (wider ritual) purity Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 144
homer, and spatial demarcation Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 178
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
justice, of matricide Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
justification, of oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
kakotes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
matricide, resulting in pollution Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
menelaus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
oath, in the hippolytus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
oedipus, development of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
oedipus at colonus (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
oedipus the king (sophocles), and oedipus at colonus (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
orestes, ritual status of Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 144
orestes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
phaedra Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the hippolytus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the orestes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
poetry, tragic Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
polis, development of, and space Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 178
pollution, and social exclusion Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 178
pollution, of the mind Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 144
pylades Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
sophronein/sophrosyne, hippolytus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
supplication, and purification of homicide Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
supplication, in the hippolytus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
supplication, in the orestes Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
theseus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204
tyndareus Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 225
washing, ritual, of ears in the hippolytus' Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 204