1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 500, 25 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 25. ἐξ οὗτε Βάκχαις ἐστρατήγησεν θεός | 25. ever since he, as a god, led the Bacchantes in war, and contrived for Pentheus death as of a hunted hare. I call on the streams of Pleistus and the strength of Poseidon, and highest Zeus, the Fulfiller; and then I take my seat as prophetess upon my throne. |
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2. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 700, 699 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 699. σῃ βίον εὖ κυρήσας· μελάναιγις δʼ· οὐκ | |
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3. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 2.58-2.80 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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4. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 1313 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 1313. θυρσαδδωᾶν καὶ παιδδωᾶν. | |
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5. Aristophanes, Clouds, 605 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 605. Βάκχαις Δελφίσιν ἐμπρέπων | |
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6. Aristophanes, Frogs, 1045-1067, 1069-1074, 1082, 1087-1098, 1109-1118, 1138-1150, 1155-1169, 1198-1200, 1246, 1259, 1261-1262, 1299, 1301-1323, 1331-1364, 1044 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 1044. οὐδ' οἶδ' οὐδεὶς ἥντιν' ἐρῶσαν πώποτ' ἐποίησα γυναῖκα. | |
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7. Euripides, Alcestis, 426-429, 611-612, 614-635, 743-744, 862-863, 866-867, 869-871, 897-902, 911, 916-919, 922, 926-928, 425 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 425. Ho! sirrahs, catch me this woman; hold her fast; for ’tis no welcome story she will have to hear. It was to make thee leave the holy altar of the goddess that I held thy child’s death before thy eyes, and so induced thee to give thyself up to me to die. |
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8. Euripides, Andromache, 1117-1172, 1176, 1187, 1211, 1218, 1226-1242, 1263-1270, 1116 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1116. εἷς ἦν ἁπάντων τῶνδε μηχανορράφος. | |
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9. Euripides, Bacchae, 1029, 1089, 1093, 1124, 1131, 1145, 1153, 1160, 1168, 1189, 120-121, 1216-1219, 122, 1220-1226, 128, 1285, 129, 1300-1309, 131, 1310-1329, 1387, 152-153, 169, 195, 225, 259, 366, 415, 443, 491, 499, 51, 529-530, 578, 59, 605, 62, 623, 632, 664, 67-68, 690, 735, 759, 77, 779, 78, 785, 79, 791, 799, 83, 837, 842, 847, 915, 940, 942, 946, 987, 998, 1020 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1020. ἴθʼ, ὦ Βάκχε, θηραγρευτᾷ βακχᾶν | 1020. Go, Bacchus, with smiling face throw a deadly noose around the hunter of the Bacchae as he falls beneath the flock of Maenads. Second Messenger |
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10. Euripides, Cyclops, 156, 38, 446, 64, 709, 72, 143 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 143. ὁ Βακχίου παῖς, ὡς σαφέστερον μάθῃς. | 143. The son of the Bacchic god, that thou mayst learn more certainly. Silenu |
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11. Euripides, Electra, 1277-1280, 1276 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1276. σοὶ μὲν τάδ' εἶπον: τόνδε δ' Αἰγίσθου νέκυν | |
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12. Euripides, Hecuba, 1077, 121, 1287-1288, 25-50, 610, 616, 675, 678-680, 684-732, 894-897, 1076 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1076. ποῖ πᾷ φέρομαι τέκν' ἔρημα λιπὼν | |
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13. Euripides, Helen, 1243, 1260, 1291-1368, 1390-1395, 1400, 1408, 1419, 1528, 1542-1604, 224, 543, 666, 690, 1240 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1240. τί δ'; ἔστ' ἀπόντων τύμβος; ἢ θάψεις σκιάν; | 1240. What? Is there a tomb for the absent? Or will you bury a shadow? Helen |
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14. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 1027-1045, 1159-1162, 1026 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1026. rend= Bury my body after death in its destined grave in front of the shrine of the virgin goddess Pallas. at Pallene. And I will be thy friend and guardian of thy city for ever, where I lie buried in a foreign soil, but a bitter foe to these children’s descendants, whensoe’er Referring to invasions by the Peloponnesians, descendants of the Heracleidae. with gathered host they come against this land, traitors to your kindness now; such are the strangers ye have championed. Why then came I hither, if I knew all this, instead of regarding the god’s oracle? Because I thought, that Hera was mightier far than any oracle, and would not betray me. Waste no drink-offering on my tomb, nor spill the victim’s blood; for I will requite them for my treatment here with a journey they shall rue; and ye shall have double gain from me, for I will help you and harm them by my death. Alcmena 1026. Slay me, I do not ask thee for mercy; yet since this city let me go and shrunk from slaying me, I will reward it with an old oracle of Loxias, which in time will benefit them more than doth appear. |
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15. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 1358-1366, 1119 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1119. I will explain, if you are no longer mad as a fiend of hell. Heracle |
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16. Euripides, Hippolytus, 142-144, 551, 560, 141 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 141. Maiden, thou must be possessed, by Pan made frantic or by Hecate, or by the Corybantes dread, and Cybele the mountain mother. |
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17. Euripides, Ion, 552-553, 716-717, 550 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 550. Didst thou in days gone by come to the Pythian rock? Xuthu |
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18. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 953, 164 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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19. Euripides, Medea, 1378-1383, 1377 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1377. Give up to me those dead, to bury and lament Medea |
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20. Euripides, Orestes, 1366-1536, 1539-1540, 1543-1546, 1561-1572, 1598, 1602, 337-338, 411, 97-99, 114 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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21. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1004-1008, 103-109, 1099, 110-117, 1175, 118-122, 1223-1229, 123, 1230-1239, 124, 1240-1241, 125-148, 1485-1488, 149, 1490-1499, 150, 1500-1509, 151, 1510-1519, 152, 1520-1529, 153, 1530-1539, 154, 1540-1549, 155, 1550-1559, 156, 1560-1569, 157, 1570-1579, 158, 1580-1581, 159-170, 1703-1707, 171-192, 301-354, 649, 676-688, 784-800, 806, 845-848, 852-857, 1003 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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22. Euripides, Rhesus, 972 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 972. As under far Pangaion Orpheus lies |
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23. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 755-759, 778-836, 841-843, 846-931, 934-935, 950-954, 754 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 754. Are ye bringing the bodies, for the which the strife arose? Messenger |
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24. Euripides, Trojan Women, 1134-1146, 1156-1206, 1240-1245, 1248-1250, 735-739, 1133 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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25. Plato, Phaedo, 69c (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 69c. from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification. And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in the mysteries, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few ; |
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26. Plato, Phaedrus, 253a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 253a. they seek after information themselves, and when they search eagerly within themselves to find the nature of their god, they are successful, because they have been compelled to keep their eyes fixed upon the god, and as they reach and grasp him by memory they are inspired and receive from him character and habits, so far as it is possible for a man to have part in God. Now they consider the beloved the cause of all this, so they love him more than before, and if they draw the waters of their inspiration from Zeus, like the bacchantes, they pour it out upon the beloved and make him, so far as possible, like their god. |
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27. Sophocles, Antigone, 154, 1122 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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28. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 211 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
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29. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.52 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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30. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 474.15-474.16
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