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Euripides, Suppliant Women, 430
ὅπου τὸ μὲν πρώτιστον οὐκ εἰσὶν νόμοι where he is, there are in the first place no laws common to all, but one man is tyrant, in whose keeping and in his alone the law resides, and in that case equality is at an end. But when the laws are written down, rich and poor alike have equal justice

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1. Homer, Iliad, 2.494, 2.557, 18.497-18.508 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 2.494. /and a voice unwearying, and though the heart within me were of bronze, did not the Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus that beareth the aegis, call to my mind all them that came beneath Ilios. Now will I tell the captains of the ships and the ships in their order.of the Boeotians Peneleos and Leïtus were captains 2.557. /Only Nestor could vie with him, for he was the elder. And with him there followed fifty black ships.And Aias led from Salamis twelve ships, and stationed them where the battalions of the Athenians stood.And they that held Argos and Tiryns, famed for its walls 18.497. /flutes and lyres sounded continually; and there the women stood each before her door and marvelled. But the folk were gathered in the place of assembly; for there a strife had arisen, and two men were striving about the blood-price of a man slain; the one avowed that he had paid all 18.498. /flutes and lyres sounded continually; and there the women stood each before her door and marvelled. But the folk were gathered in the place of assembly; for there a strife had arisen, and two men were striving about the blood-price of a man slain; the one avowed that he had paid all 18.499. /flutes and lyres sounded continually; and there the women stood each before her door and marvelled. But the folk were gathered in the place of assembly; for there a strife had arisen, and two men were striving about the blood-price of a man slain; the one avowed that he had paid all 18.500. /declaring his cause to the people, but the other refused to accept aught; and each was fain to win the issue on the word of a daysman. Moreover, the folk were cheering both, shewing favour to this side and to that. And heralds held back the folk, and the elders were sitting upon polished stones in the sacred circle 18.501. /declaring his cause to the people, but the other refused to accept aught; and each was fain to win the issue on the word of a daysman. Moreover, the folk were cheering both, shewing favour to this side and to that. And heralds held back the folk, and the elders were sitting upon polished stones in the sacred circle 18.502. /declaring his cause to the people, but the other refused to accept aught; and each was fain to win the issue on the word of a daysman. Moreover, the folk were cheering both, shewing favour to this side and to that. And heralds held back the folk, and the elders were sitting upon polished stones in the sacred circle 18.503. /declaring his cause to the people, but the other refused to accept aught; and each was fain to win the issue on the word of a daysman. Moreover, the folk were cheering both, shewing favour to this side and to that. And heralds held back the folk, and the elders were sitting upon polished stones in the sacred circle 18.504. /declaring his cause to the people, but the other refused to accept aught; and each was fain to win the issue on the word of a daysman. Moreover, the folk were cheering both, shewing favour to this side and to that. And heralds held back the folk, and the elders were sitting upon polished stones in the sacred circle 18.505. /holding in their hands the staves of the loud-voiced heralds. Therewith then would they spring up and give judgment, each in turn. And in the midst lay two talents of gold, to be given to him whoso among them should utter the most righteous judgment.But around the other city lay in leaguer two hosts of warriors 18.506. /holding in their hands the staves of the loud-voiced heralds. Therewith then would they spring up and give judgment, each in turn. And in the midst lay two talents of gold, to be given to him whoso among them should utter the most righteous judgment.But around the other city lay in leaguer two hosts of warriors 18.507. /holding in their hands the staves of the loud-voiced heralds. Therewith then would they spring up and give judgment, each in turn. And in the midst lay two talents of gold, to be given to him whoso among them should utter the most righteous judgment.But around the other city lay in leaguer two hosts of warriors 18.508. /holding in their hands the staves of the loud-voiced heralds. Therewith then would they spring up and give judgment, each in turn. And in the midst lay two talents of gold, to be given to him whoso among them should utter the most righteous judgment.But around the other city lay in leaguer two hosts of warriors
2. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, 912-953, 911 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 911. οὗτος, τί ποιεῖς; ἐκ ποίου φρονήματος 911. You there! What are you doing? What kind of arrogance has incited you to do such dishonor to this realm of Pelasgian men? Indeed, do you think you have come to a land of women? For a barbarian dealing with Hellenes, you act insolently.
3. Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments, 33 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 6.17 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 629-664, 628 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 628. ἐξ οὗ γε χοροῖσιν ἐφέστηκεν τρυγικοῖς ὁ διδάσκαλος ἡμῶν
6. Aristophanes, Knights, 506-550, 505 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 505. ὦ παντοίας ἤδη Μούσης
7. Aristophanes, Frogs, 686-705, 718-733, 675 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 675. Μοῦσα χορῶν ἱερῶν: ἐπίβηθι καὶ ἔλθ' ἐπὶ τέρψιν ἀοιδᾶς ἐμᾶς
8. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 287-364, 399-429, 431-597, 859, 861-908, 911-917, 955-989, 286 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 286. Mother mine, why weepest thou, drawing o’er thine eyes thy veil? Is it because thou didst hear their piteous lamentations? To my own heart it goes. Raise thy silvered head, weep not
9. Herodotus, Histories, 7.139 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 7.139. Here I am forced to declare an opinion which will be displeasing to most, but I will not refrain from saying what seems to me to be true. ,Had the Athenians been panic-struck by the threatened peril and left their own country, or had they not indeed left it but remained and surrendered themselves to Xerxes, none would have attempted to withstand the king by sea. What would have happened on land if no one had resisted the king by sea is easy enough to determine. ,Although the Peloponnesians had built not one but many walls across the Isthmus for their defense, they would nevertheless have been deserted by their allies (these having no choice or free will in the matter, but seeing their cities taken one by one by the foreign fleet), until at last they would have stood alone. They would then have put up quite a fight and perished nobly. ,Such would have been their fate. Perhaps, however, when they saw the rest of Hellas siding with the enemy, they would have made terms with Xerxes. In either case Hellas would have been subdued by the Persians, for I cannot see what advantage could accrue from the walls built across the isthmus, while the king was master of the seas. ,As it is, to say that the Athenians were the saviors of Hellas is to hit the truth. It was the Athenians who held the balance; whichever side they joined was sure to prevail. choosing that Greece should preserve her freedom, the Athenians roused to battle the other Greek states which had not yet gone over to the Persians and, after the gods, were responsible for driving the king off. ,Nor were they moved to desert Hellas by the threatening oracles which came from Delphi and sorely dismayed them, but they stood firm and had the courage to meet the invader of their country.
10. Isocrates, Orations, 4.96 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
11. Sophocles, Antigone, 449-470, 735, 155 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
12. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.42, 1.73.2-1.73.74, 2.21-2.22, 2.37-2.41, 2.52, 2.59-2.65, 2.67, 2.71-2.77, 3.37-3.48, 4.77, 4.89-4.101 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1.73.2. We need not refer to remote antiquity: there we could appeal to the voice of tradition, but not to the experience of our audience. But to the Median war and contemporary history we must refer, although we are rather tired of continually bringing this subject forward. In our action during that war we ran great risk to obtain certain advantages: you had your share in the solid results, do not try to rob us of all share in the good that the glory may do us. 1.73.3. However, the story shall be told not so much to deprecate hostility as to testify against it, and to show, if you are so ill-advised as to enter into a struggle with Athens, what sort of an antagonist she is likely to prove. 1.73.4. We assert that at Marathon we were at the front, and faced the barbarian single-handed. That when he came the second time, unable to cope with him by land we went on board our ships with all our people, and joined in the action at Salamis . This prevented his taking the Peloponnesian states in detail, and ravaging them with his fleet; when the multitude of his vessels would have made any combination for self-defence impossible. 1.73.5. The best proof of this was furnished by the invader himself. Defeated at sea, he considered his power to be no longer what it had been, and retired as speedily as possible with the greater part of his army.
13. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.2.43 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1.2.43. But if, as happens under an oligarchy, not the majority, but a minority meet and enact rules of conduct, what are these? Whatsoever the sovereign power in the State, after deliberation, enacts and directs to be done is known as a law. If, then, a despot, being the sovereign power, enacts what the citizens are to do, are his orders also a law? Yes, whatever a despot as ruler enacts is also known as a law.
14. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.15 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
15. Plutarch, Solon, 10 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
16. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.35.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.35.3. There are still the remains of a market-place, a temple of Ajax and his statue in ebony. Even at the present day the Athenians pay honors to Ajax himself and to Eurysaces, for there is an altar of Eurysaces also at Athens . In Salamis is shown a stone not far from the harbor, on which they say that Telamon sat when he gazed at the ship in which his children were sailing away to Aulis to take part in the joint expedition of the Greeks.
17. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 1.48 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 1.48. And lest it should be thought that he had acquired Salamis by force only and not of right, he opened certain graves and showed that the dead were buried with their faces to the east, as was the custom of burial among the Athenians; further, that the tombs themselves faced the east, and that the inscriptions graven upon them named the deceased by their demes, which is a style peculiar to Athens. Some authors assert that in Homer's catalogue of the ships after the line:Ajax twelve ships from Salamis commands,Solon inserted one of his own:And fixed their station next the Athenian bands.
18. Justinian, Digest, 50.17.23 (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE)
19. Strabo, Geography, 9.1.10 9.1.10. At the present time the island is held by the Athenians, although in early times there was strife between them and the Megarians for its possession. Some say that it was Peisistratus, others Solon, who inserted in the Catalogue of Ships immediately after the verse, and Aias brought twelve ships from Salamis, the verse, and, bringing them, halted them where the battalions of the Athenians were stationed, and then used the poet as a witness that the island had belonged to the Athenians from the beginning. But the critics do not accept this interpretation, because many of the verses bear witness to the contrary. For why is Aias found in the last place in the ship-camp, not with the Athenians, but with the Thessalians under Protesilaus? Here were the ships of Aias and Protesilaus. And in the Visitation of the troops, Agamemnon found Menestheus the charioteer, son of Peteos, standing still; and about him were the Athenians, masters of the battle-cry. And near by stood Odysseus of many wiles, and about him, at his side, the ranks of the Cephallenians. And back again to Aias and the Salaminians, he came to the Aiantes, and near them, Idomeneus on the other side, not Menestheus. The Athenians, then, are reputed to have cited alleged testimony of this kind from Homer, and the Megarians to have replied with the following parody: Aias brought ships from Salamis, from Polichne, from Aegeirussa, from Nisaea, and from Tripodes; these four are Megarian places, and, of these, Tripodes is called Tripodiscium, near which the present marketplace of the Megarians is situated.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adrastus (hero)	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 185
aeschylus,on theseus	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
aeschylus,prometheus bound	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388
aethra	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 194
aiantis tribe,and ajax	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 677
anger	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388
anonymus iamblichi,iamblichus framing of	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 290
anonymus iamblichi,importance of	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 290
archeology	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 677
argos,and athens	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
aristophanes	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
athens,and ajax	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 677
athens,and identity	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
athens	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
athens and athenians,in peloponnesian war era	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
athens and athenians,in persian war era	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
cadmus	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
creon	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
danaus,daughters of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
deception,opposed to hoplitism	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
delphi	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
democracy,athenian,thucydides depiction of	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
democracy,in athens	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
democracy,in tragedy	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 184, 185
democracy and monarchy,debate between theseus and theban herald on	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 122
dramatic festivals,discursive parameters	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 194
egyptus,sons of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
eteocles	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
euripides,dramas by\n,suppliant women	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 184, 185
euripides,on theseus	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
euripides,supplices	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
euripides	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
euripides suppliant women,dating	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 194
euripides suppliant women,interpretation	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 194
freedom of speech (parrhesia)	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 185
general theseus,mythic image of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
herodotus,and the athenian audience	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
herodotus,historical perspective of	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
impiety	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 194
law,athenian.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 98
law,medieval	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 42, 52
men of eleusis,the (aeschylus)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
metalepsis,of theseus in suppliant women	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 122
monarchy and democracy,debate between theseus and theban herald on	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 122
myths,and sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
naples,bilingualism in	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
nomoi koinoi	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 52, 388
oedipus	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
oracles,delphic	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
oracles,interpreted by athenians	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
oratory	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 98
pelasgus,as a democratic king	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
peloponnese	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
peloponnesian war	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
pericles,on deceit	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
pericles	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
persia and persians,war with greeks	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
plato	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
pollution	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388
polynices	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
practice (askēsis,meletē),in ionian thought	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 290
private laws.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388
shield of achilles	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 98
siluae,imperialism in	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
socrates	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
sophism of theseus in suppliant women'	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 122
sophocles,antigone.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 390
sophocles,oedipus tyrannus	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 390
sparta,agoge	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
sparta,education system	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
sparta,krupteia	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
statius,and euripides	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
statius,and greek tragedy	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
statius,father of	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
suppliant women,the (aeschylus)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
suppliant women metaleptic role of theseus in	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 122
suppliant women theban herald,debate on democracy and monarchy between theseus and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 122
suppliants,the (euripides)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
thebes,and athens	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
thebes	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
theseus	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
thesmos	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 390
thucydides,and herodotus	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
thucydides,funeral speech	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
thucydides,on persians	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
thucydides,on spartans	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311
tragedy,and law	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388, 390
tyrants law.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388
unwritten law	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 52, 390
writing,written law.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 42, 52, 98, 390
xenophon,and spartan custom	Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 34
xerxes	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 311