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Euripides, Suppliant Women, 526-527

θάψαι δικαιῶ, τὸν Πανελλήνων νόμον

nor yet introducing murderous strife, but preserving the law of all Hellas. What is not well in this? If ye suffered aught from the Argives—lo! they are dead; ye took a splendid vengeance on your foe

σῴζων. τί τούτων ἐστὶν οὐ καλῶς ἔχον;

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

21 results

1. Homer, Iliad, 2.494, 2.557 (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

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. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 629-664, 628 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

628. ἐξ οὗ γε χοροῖσιν ἐφέστηκεν τρυγικοῖς ὁ διδάσκαλος ἡμῶν

4. Aristophanes, Knights, 506-550, 505 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

505. ὦ παντοίας ἤδη Μούσης

5. Aristophanes, Frogs, 686-705, 718-733, 675 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

675. Μοῦσα χορῶν ἱερῶν: ἐπίβηθι καὶ ἔλθ' ἐπὶ τέρψιν ἀοιδᾶς ἐμᾶς

6. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 1202-1203, 1205-1208, 133, 220-221, 286-364, 399-525, 527-597, 671-672, 714-717, 741, 1201 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. 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.

8. Isocrates, Orations, 4.55-4.60, 4.96 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

9. Plato, Menexenus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

239b. deeming it their duty to fight in the cause of freedom alike with Greeks on behalf of Greeks and with barbarians on behalf of the whole of Greece . The story of how they repulsed Eumolpus and the Amazons, and still earlier invaders, when they marched upon our country, and how they defended the Argives against the Cadmeians and the Heracleidae against the Argives, is a story which our time is too short to relate as it deserves, and already their valor has been adequately celebrated in song by poets who have made it known throughout the world;

10. Sophocles, Antigone, 447-455, 446 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. 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.

12. Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.7.22 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.7.22. Or if you do not wish to do this, try them under the following law, which applies to temple-robbers and traitors: namely, if anyone shall be a traitor to the state or shall steal sacred property, he shall be tried before a court, and if he be convicted, he shall not be buried in Attica, and his property shall be confiscated.

13. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.15 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

14. Plutarch, Solon, 10 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

15. Statius, Thebais, 12.642 (1st cent. CE - 1st 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. Demosthenes, Orations, 60.8

20. Lysias, Orations, 2.7-2.16, 2.19

21. 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
advantage	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 200
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
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
apollodorus tragicus (trgf i,suppliant women	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 292
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
assembly,discursive parameters	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 200
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
characters,tragic/mythical,adrastus	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 291
characters,tragic/mythical,antigone	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 288
characters,tragic/mythical,eurystheus	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 291
characters,tragic/mythical,theseus	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 292
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
dionysia festivals,great or city d.	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 291
egyptians	Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 213
egyptus,sons of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
engages with aeschylean corpus	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151
epicurus	Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 213
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,burial	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 288
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
general theseus,mythic image of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
gods,existence	Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 213
helping paradigm (international relations),and justice	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 200, 211
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
ion,depiction of the thebans	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 211
knives in oath rituals	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151
law,nomos on burial	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 200, 211
lycophron of chalcis (pleiadist),suppliants	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 292
lysias	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 291
magi	Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 213
magic,sympathetic	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151
men of eleusis,the (aeschylus)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 159
motifs,in postclassical tragedy,burial of the dead	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 288, 291, 292
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, 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
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
perjury,punishments for,death	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151
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
philodemus	Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 213
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; Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 208; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
private laws.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388
seven against thebes,causes of argive expedition	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 211
sheep as oath sacrifices	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151
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
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
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,thebans,hybris of	Barbato (2020), The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past, 211
thebes	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 209; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151; 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; Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 208; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 209
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
trojan war	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151
truce oaths,in euripides	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 151
tyrants law.	Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 388
xenophon'	Mcclellan (2019), Paulinus Noster: Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola, 208
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