Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

5636

Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1258
νίκης τε σῆμα καὶ τὸ τῶν ἡσσωμένων. The seers were sacrificing sheep and noting the tongues and forks of fire, the damp reek which is a bad omen, and the tapering flame which gives decisions on two points, being both a sign of victory and defeat.

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

11 results
1. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 187-206, 186 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 186. καί μοι δότω τὰ τόμιά τις. Λυσιστράτη
2. Euripides, Andromache, 694-698, 693 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 693. οἴμοι, καθ' ̔Ελλάδ' ὡς κακῶς νομίζεται:
3. Euripides, Hecuba, 658 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 658. γυναῖκες, ̔Εκάβη ποῦ ποθ' ἡ παναθλία 658. Oh! ladies, where is Hecuba, our queen of sorrow, who conquers all in tribulation, men and women both alike?
4. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 399-401, 776, 778-783, 937, 398 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 48-50, 47 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 1578-1612, 1577 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 21, 4-9, 19 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
8. Euripides, Orestes, 924-930, 923 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
9. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1257 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
10. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 648, 647 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 647. How did the son of Aegeus and his fellow-warriors raise their trophy to Zeus? Tell us, for thou wert there and canst gladden us who were not. Messenger
11. Sophocles, Antigone, 1006-1011, 1005 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeschylus	Naiden, Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (2013) 176
agamemnon	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
andromache	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
artemis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
battle, pre-battle sacrifice	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
blood libations, in oath-taking	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
brains	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
burkert, w.	Naiden, Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (2013) 176
casabona, j.	Naiden, Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (2013) 176
detienne, m.	Naiden, Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (2013) 176
dionyso(u)s	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 344
electra	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
hecuba (hecabe)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
heracles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
iphigenia at aulis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
killing	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
libations	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
oath sacrifice	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
orestes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
phoenician women	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 344
polyaenus	Naiden, Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (2013) 176
rehm, r. xxv	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
ritual	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
sacrifice	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
sophocles, electra	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
sphagia	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
suppliant women (supplices)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
swift, l.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 344
tears'	Hitch, Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (2017) 232
trojan women (troades)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830
vernant, j.-p.	Naiden, Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods (2013) 176
zeus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Euripides (2015) 830