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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 10, 109, 143, 176, 180, 199, 2-9, 90, 1 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1. μοῦσαι Πιερίηθεν ἀοιδῇσιν κλείουσαι 1. Pierian Muses, with your songs of praise
2. Hesiod, Theogony, 10, 100-109, 11, 110-116, 12-19, 2, 20, 22-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-49, 5, 50-59, 6, 60-69, 7, 70-79, 8, 80-89, 9, 90, 903, 91-99, 1 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1. Μουσάων Ἑλικωνιάδων ἀρχώμεθʼ ἀείδειν 1. From the Heliconian Muses let me sing:
3. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, 204.98 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
4. Homer, Iliad, 1.503, 2.91-2.92, 2.484-2.492, 2.852, 5.441-5.442, 9.502-9.514, 24.601-24.620 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1.503. Ζεῦ πάτερ εἴ ποτε δή σε μετʼ ἀθανάτοισιν ὄνησα 2.91. ὣς τῶν ἔθνεα πολλὰ νεῶν ἄπο καὶ κλισιάων 2.92. ἠϊόνος προπάροιθε βαθείης ἐστιχόωντο 2.484. ἔσπετε νῦν μοι Μοῦσαι Ὀλύμπια δώματʼ ἔχουσαι· 2.485. ὑμεῖς γὰρ θεαί ἐστε πάρεστέ τε ἴστέ τε πάντα 2.486. ἡμεῖς δὲ κλέος οἶον ἀκούομεν οὐδέ τι ἴδμεν· 2.487. οἵ τινες ἡγεμόνες Δαναῶν καὶ κοίρανοι ἦσαν· 2.488. πληθὺν δʼ οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ μυθήσομαι οὐδʼ ὀνομήνω 2.489. οὐδʼ εἴ μοι δέκα μὲν γλῶσσαι, δέκα δὲ στόματʼ εἶεν 2.490. φωνὴ δʼ ἄρρηκτος, χάλκεον δέ μοι ἦτορ ἐνείη 2.491. εἰ μὴ Ὀλυμπιάδες Μοῦσαι Διὸς αἰγιόχοιο 2.492. θυγατέρες μνησαίαθʼ ὅσοι ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἦλθον· 2.852. ἐξ Ἐνετῶν, ὅθεν ἡμιόνων γένος ἀγροτεράων 5.441. ἶσʼ ἔθελε φρονέειν, ἐπεὶ οὔ ποτε φῦλον ὁμοῖον 5.442. ἀθανάτων τε θεῶν χαμαὶ ἐρχομένων τʼ ἀνθρώπων. 9.502. καὶ γάρ τε λιταί εἰσι Διὸς κοῦραι μεγάλοιο 9.503. χωλαί τε ῥυσαί τε παραβλῶπές τʼ ὀφθαλμώ 9.504. αἵ ῥά τε καὶ μετόπισθʼ ἄτης ἀλέγουσι κιοῦσαι. 9.505. ἣ δʼ ἄτη σθεναρή τε καὶ ἀρτίπος, οὕνεκα πάσας 9.506. πολλὸν ὑπεκπροθέει, φθάνει δέ τε πᾶσαν ἐπʼ αἶαν 9.507. βλάπτουσʼ ἀνθρώπους· αἳ δʼ ἐξακέονται ὀπίσσω. 9.508. ὃς μέν τʼ αἰδέσεται κούρας Διὸς ἆσσον ἰούσας 9.509. τὸν δὲ μέγʼ ὤνησαν καί τʼ ἔκλυον εὐχομένοιο· 9.510. ὃς δέ κʼ ἀνήνηται καί τε στερεῶς ἀποείπῃ 9.511. λίσσονται δʼ ἄρα ταί γε Δία Κρονίωνα κιοῦσαι 9.512. τῷ ἄτην ἅμʼ ἕπεσθαι, ἵνα βλαφθεὶς ἀποτίσῃ. 9.513. ἀλλʼ Ἀχιλεῦ πόρε καὶ σὺ Διὸς κούρῃσιν ἕπεσθαι 9.514. τιμήν, ἥ τʼ ἄλλων περ ἐπιγνάμπτει νόον ἐσθλῶν. 24.601. ὄψεαι αὐτὸς ἄγων· νῦν δὲ μνησώμεθα δόρπου. 24.602. καὶ γάρ τʼ ἠΰκομος Νιόβη ἐμνήσατο σίτου 24.603. τῇ περ δώδεκα παῖδες ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ὄλοντο 24.604. ἓξ μὲν θυγατέρες, ἓξ δʼ υἱέες ἡβώοντες. 24.605. τοὺς μὲν Ἀπόλλων πέφνεν ἀπʼ ἀργυρέοιο βιοῖο 24.606. χωόμενος Νιόβῃ, τὰς δʼ Ἄρτεμις ἰοχέαιρα 24.607. οὕνεκʼ ἄρα Λητοῖ ἰσάσκετο καλλιπαρῄῳ· 24.608. φῆ δοιὼ τεκέειν, ἣ δʼ αὐτὴ γείνατο πολλούς· 24.609. τὼ δʼ ἄρα καὶ δοιώ περ ἐόντʼ ἀπὸ πάντας ὄλεσσαν. 24.610. οἳ μὲν ἄρʼ ἐννῆμαρ κέατʼ ἐν φόνῳ, οὐδέ τις ἦεν 24.611. κατθάψαι, λαοὺς δὲ λίθους ποίησε Κρονίων· 24.612. τοὺς δʼ ἄρα τῇ δεκάτῃ θάψαν θεοὶ Οὐρανίωνες. 24.613. ἣ δʼ ἄρα σίτου μνήσατʼ, ἐπεὶ κάμε δάκρυ χέουσα. 24.614. νῦν δέ που ἐν πέτρῃσιν ἐν οὔρεσιν οἰοπόλοισιν 24.615. ἐν Σιπύλῳ, ὅθι φασὶ θεάων ἔμμεναι εὐνὰς 24.616. νυμφάων, αἵ τʼ ἀμφʼ Ἀχελώϊον ἐρρώσαντο 24.617. ἔνθα λίθος περ ἐοῦσα θεῶν ἐκ κήδεα πέσσει. 24.618. ἀλλʼ ἄγε δὴ καὶ νῶϊ μεδώμεθα δῖε γεραιὲ 24.619. σίτου· ἔπειτά κεν αὖτε φίλον παῖδα κλαίοισθα 24.620. Ἴλιον εἰσαγαγών· πολυδάκρυτος δέ τοι ἔσται. 1.503. with her left hand, while with her right she touched him beneath the chin, and she spoke in prayer to king Zeus, son of Cronos:Father Zeus, if ever amid the immortals I gave you aid by word or deed, grant me this prayer: do honour to my son, who is doomed to a speedy death beyond all other men; 2.91. even so from the ships and huts before the low sea-beach marched forth in companies their many tribes to the place of gathering. And in their midst blazed forth Rumour, messenger of Zeus, urging them to go; and they were gathered. 2.92. even so from the ships and huts before the low sea-beach marched forth in companies their many tribes to the place of gathering. And in their midst blazed forth Rumour, messenger of Zeus, urging them to go; and they were gathered. 2.484. Even as a bull among the herd stands forth far the chiefest over all, for that he is pre-eminent among the gathering kine, even such did Zeus make Agamemnon on that day, pre-eminent among many, and chiefest amid warriors.Tell me now, ye Muses that have dwellings on Olympus— 2.485. for ye are goddesses and are at hand and know all things, whereas we hear but a rumour and know not anything—who were the captains of the Danaans and their lords. But the common folk I could not tell nor name, nay, not though ten tongues were mine and ten mouths 2.486. for ye are goddesses and are at hand and know all things, whereas we hear but a rumour and know not anything—who were the captains of the Danaans and their lords. But the common folk I could not tell nor name, nay, not though ten tongues were mine and ten mouths 2.487. for ye are goddesses and are at hand and know all things, whereas we hear but a rumour and know not anything—who were the captains of the Danaans and their lords. But the common folk I could not tell nor name, nay, not though ten tongues were mine and ten mouths 2.488. for ye are goddesses and are at hand and know all things, whereas we hear but a rumour and know not anything—who were the captains of the Danaans and their lords. But the common folk I could not tell nor name, nay, not though ten tongues were mine and ten mouths 2.489. for ye are goddesses and are at hand and know all things, whereas we hear but a rumour and know not anything—who were the captains of the Danaans and their lords. But the common folk I could not tell nor name, nay, not though ten tongues were mine and ten mouths 2.490. 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 2.491. 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 2.492. 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 2.852. Axius the water whereof floweth the fairest over the face of the earth.And the Paphlagonians did Pylaemenes of the shaggy heart lead from the land of the Eneti, whence is the race of wild she-mules. These were they that held Cytorus and dwelt about Sesamon, and had their famed dwellings around the river Parthenius 5.441. Bethink thee, son of Tydeus, and give place, neither be thou minded to be like of spirit with the gods; seeing in no wise of like sort is the race of immortal gods and that of men who walk upon the earth. So spake he, and the son of Tydeus gave ground a scant space backward, avoiding the wrath of Apollo that smiteth afar. 5.442. Bethink thee, son of Tydeus, and give place, neither be thou minded to be like of spirit with the gods; seeing in no wise of like sort is the race of immortal gods and that of men who walk upon the earth. So spake he, and the son of Tydeus gave ground a scant space backward, avoiding the wrath of Apollo that smiteth afar. 9.502. and libations and the savour of sacrifice do men turn from wrath with supplication, whenso any man transgresseth and doeth sin. For Prayers are the daughters of great Zeus, halting and wrinkled and of eyes askance, and they are ever mindful to follow in the steps of Sin. 9.503. and libations and the savour of sacrifice do men turn from wrath with supplication, whenso any man transgresseth and doeth sin. For Prayers are the daughters of great Zeus, halting and wrinkled and of eyes askance, and they are ever mindful to follow in the steps of Sin. 9.504. and libations and the savour of sacrifice do men turn from wrath with supplication, whenso any man transgresseth and doeth sin. For Prayers are the daughters of great Zeus, halting and wrinkled and of eyes askance, and they are ever mindful to follow in the steps of Sin. 9.505. Howbeit Sin is strong and fleet of foot, wherefore she far out-runneth them all, and goeth before them over the face of all the earth making men to fall, and Prayers follow after, seeking to heal the hurt. Now whoso revereth the daughters of Zeus when they draw nigh, him they greatly bless, and hear him, when he prayeth; 9.506. Howbeit Sin is strong and fleet of foot, wherefore she far out-runneth them all, and goeth before them over the face of all the earth making men to fall, and Prayers follow after, seeking to heal the hurt. Now whoso revereth the daughters of Zeus when they draw nigh, him they greatly bless, and hear him, when he prayeth; 9.507. Howbeit Sin is strong and fleet of foot, wherefore she far out-runneth them all, and goeth before them over the face of all the earth making men to fall, and Prayers follow after, seeking to heal the hurt. Now whoso revereth the daughters of Zeus when they draw nigh, him they greatly bless, and hear him, when he prayeth; 9.508. Howbeit Sin is strong and fleet of foot, wherefore she far out-runneth them all, and goeth before them over the face of all the earth making men to fall, and Prayers follow after, seeking to heal the hurt. Now whoso revereth the daughters of Zeus when they draw nigh, him they greatly bless, and hear him, when he prayeth; 9.509. Howbeit Sin is strong and fleet of foot, wherefore she far out-runneth them all, and goeth before them over the face of all the earth making men to fall, and Prayers follow after, seeking to heal the hurt. Now whoso revereth the daughters of Zeus when they draw nigh, him they greatly bless, and hear him, when he prayeth; 9.510. but if a man denieth them and stubbornly refuseth, then they go their way and make prayer to Zeus, son of Cronos, that Ate may follow after such a one to the end that he may fall and pay full atonement. Nay, Achilles, see thou too that reverence attend upon the daughters of Zeus, even such as bendeth the hearts of all men that are upright. 9.511. but if a man denieth them and stubbornly refuseth, then they go their way and make prayer to Zeus, son of Cronos, that Ate may follow after such a one to the end that he may fall and pay full atonement. Nay, Achilles, see thou too that reverence attend upon the daughters of Zeus, even such as bendeth the hearts of all men that are upright. 9.512. but if a man denieth them and stubbornly refuseth, then they go their way and make prayer to Zeus, son of Cronos, that Ate may follow after such a one to the end that he may fall and pay full atonement. Nay, Achilles, see thou too that reverence attend upon the daughters of Zeus, even such as bendeth the hearts of all men that are upright. 9.513. but if a man denieth them and stubbornly refuseth, then they go their way and make prayer to Zeus, son of Cronos, that Ate may follow after such a one to the end that he may fall and pay full atonement. Nay, Achilles, see thou too that reverence attend upon the daughters of Zeus, even such as bendeth the hearts of all men that are upright. 9.514. but if a man denieth them and stubbornly refuseth, then they go their way and make prayer to Zeus, son of Cronos, that Ate may follow after such a one to the end that he may fall and pay full atonement. Nay, Achilles, see thou too that reverence attend upon the daughters of Zeus, even such as bendeth the hearts of all men that are upright. 24.601. and lieth upon a bier; and at break of day thou shalt thyself behold him, as thou bearest him hence; but for this present let us bethink us of supper. For even the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat, albeit twelve children perished in her halls, six daughters and six lusty sons. 24.602. and lieth upon a bier; and at break of day thou shalt thyself behold him, as thou bearest him hence; but for this present let us bethink us of supper. For even the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat, albeit twelve children perished in her halls, six daughters and six lusty sons. 24.603. and lieth upon a bier; and at break of day thou shalt thyself behold him, as thou bearest him hence; but for this present let us bethink us of supper. For even the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat, albeit twelve children perished in her halls, six daughters and six lusty sons. 24.604. and lieth upon a bier; and at break of day thou shalt thyself behold him, as thou bearest him hence; but for this present let us bethink us of supper. For even the fair-haired Niobe bethought her of meat, albeit twelve children perished in her halls, six daughters and six lusty sons. 24.605. The sons Apollo slew with shafts from his silver bow, being wroth against Niobe, and the daughters the archer Artemis, for that Niobe had matched her with fair-cheeked Leto, saying that the goddess had borne but twain, while herself was mother to many; wherefore they, for all they were but twain, destroyed them all. 24.606. The sons Apollo slew with shafts from his silver bow, being wroth against Niobe, and the daughters the archer Artemis, for that Niobe had matched her with fair-cheeked Leto, saying that the goddess had borne but twain, while herself was mother to many; wherefore they, for all they were but twain, destroyed them all. 24.607. The sons Apollo slew with shafts from his silver bow, being wroth against Niobe, and the daughters the archer Artemis, for that Niobe had matched her with fair-cheeked Leto, saying that the goddess had borne but twain, while herself was mother to many; wherefore they, for all they were but twain, destroyed them all. 24.608. The sons Apollo slew with shafts from his silver bow, being wroth against Niobe, and the daughters the archer Artemis, for that Niobe had matched her with fair-cheeked Leto, saying that the goddess had borne but twain, while herself was mother to many; wherefore they, for all they were but twain, destroyed them all. 24.609. The sons Apollo slew with shafts from his silver bow, being wroth against Niobe, and the daughters the archer Artemis, for that Niobe had matched her with fair-cheeked Leto, saying that the goddess had borne but twain, while herself was mother to many; wherefore they, for all they were but twain, destroyed them all. 24.610. For nine days' space they lay in their blood, nor was there any to bury them, for the son of Cronos turned the folk to stones; howbeit on the tenth day the gods of heaven buried them; and Niobe bethought her of meat, for she was wearied with the shedding of tears. And now somewhere amid the rocks, on the lonely mountains 24.611. For nine days' space they lay in their blood, nor was there any to bury them, for the son of Cronos turned the folk to stones; howbeit on the tenth day the gods of heaven buried them; and Niobe bethought her of meat, for she was wearied with the shedding of tears. And now somewhere amid the rocks, on the lonely mountains 24.612. For nine days' space they lay in their blood, nor was there any to bury them, for the son of Cronos turned the folk to stones; howbeit on the tenth day the gods of heaven buried them; and Niobe bethought her of meat, for she was wearied with the shedding of tears. And now somewhere amid the rocks, on the lonely mountains 24.613. For nine days' space they lay in their blood, nor was there any to bury them, for the son of Cronos turned the folk to stones; howbeit on the tenth day the gods of heaven buried them; and Niobe bethought her of meat, for she was wearied with the shedding of tears. And now somewhere amid the rocks, on the lonely mountains 24.614. For nine days' space they lay in their blood, nor was there any to bury them, for the son of Cronos turned the folk to stones; howbeit on the tenth day the gods of heaven buried them; and Niobe bethought her of meat, for she was wearied with the shedding of tears. And now somewhere amid the rocks, on the lonely mountains 24.615. on Sipylus, where, men say, are the couching-places of goddesses, even of the nymphs that range swiftly in the dance about Achelous, there, albeit a stone, she broodeth over her woes sent by the gods. But come, let us twain likewise, noble old sire, bethink us of meat; and thereafter shalt thou make lament over thy dear son 24.616. on Sipylus, where, men say, are the couching-places of goddesses, even of the nymphs that range swiftly in the dance about Achelous, there, albeit a stone, she broodeth over her woes sent by the gods. But come, let us twain likewise, noble old sire, bethink us of meat; and thereafter shalt thou make lament over thy dear son 24.617. on Sipylus, where, men say, are the couching-places of goddesses, even of the nymphs that range swiftly in the dance about Achelous, there, albeit a stone, she broodeth over her woes sent by the gods. But come, let us twain likewise, noble old sire, bethink us of meat; and thereafter shalt thou make lament over thy dear son 24.618. on Sipylus, where, men say, are the couching-places of goddesses, even of the nymphs that range swiftly in the dance about Achelous, there, albeit a stone, she broodeth over her woes sent by the gods. But come, let us twain likewise, noble old sire, bethink us of meat; and thereafter shalt thou make lament over thy dear son 24.619. on Sipylus, where, men say, are the couching-places of goddesses, even of the nymphs that range swiftly in the dance about Achelous, there, albeit a stone, she broodeth over her woes sent by the gods. But come, let us twain likewise, noble old sire, bethink us of meat; and thereafter shalt thou make lament over thy dear son 24.620. when thou hast borne him into Ilios; mourned shall he be of thee many tears. Therewith swift Achilles sprang up, and slew a white-fleeced sheep, and his comrades flayed it and made it ready well and duly, and sliced it cunningly and spitted the morsels, and roasted them carefully and drew all off the spits.
5. Homer, Odyssey, 1.31, 3.147, 11.602 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 1.31. τοῦ ὅ γʼ ἐπιμνησθεὶς ἔπεʼ ἀθανάτοισι μετηύδα· 3.147. οὐ γάρ τʼ αἶψα θεῶν τρέπεται νόος αἰὲν ἐόντων. 11.602. εἴδωλον· αὐτὸς δὲ μετʼ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι
6. Homeric Hymns, To Demeter, 310 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) 310. Won over by your honest purity.”
7. Homeric Hymns, To Apollo And The Muses, 157-164, 156 (8th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE) 156. You walked on craggy Cynthus or abroad
8. Herodotus, Histories, 2.122 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 2.122. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἔλεγον τοῦτον τὸν βασιλέα ζωὸν καταβῆναι κάτω ἐς τὸν οἱ Ἕλληνες Ἅιδην νομίζουσι εἶναι, καὶ κεῖθι συγκυβεύειν τῇ Δήμητρι, καὶ τὰ μὲν νικᾶν αὐτὴν τὰ δὲ ἑσσοῦσθαι ὑπʼ αὐτῆς, καί μιν πάλιν ἀπικέσθαι δῶρον ἔχοντα παρʼ αὐτῆς χειρόμακτρον χρύσεον. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Ῥαμψινίτου καταβάσιος, ὡς πάλιν ἀπίκετο, ὁρτὴν δὴ ἀνάγειν Αἰγυπτίους ἔφασαν· τὴν καὶ ἐγὼ οἶδα ἔτι καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ ἐπιτελέοντας αὐτούς, οὐ μέντοι εἴ γε διὰ ταῦτα ὁρτάζουσι ἔχω λέγειν. φᾶρος δὲ αὐτημερὸν ἐξυφήναντες οἱ ἱρέες κατʼ ὦν ἔδησαν ἑνὸς ἑωυτῶν μίτρῃ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς, ἀγαγόντες δέ μιν ἔχοντα τὸ φᾶρος ἐς ὁδὸν φέρουσαν ἐς ἱρὸν Δήμητρος αὐτοὶ ἀπαλλάσσονται ὀπίσω· τὸν δὲ ἱρέα τοῦτον καταδεδεμένον τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς λέγουσι ὑπὸ δύο λύκων ἄγεσθαι ἐς τὸ ἱρὸν τῆς Δήμητρος ἀπέχον τῆς πόλιος εἴκοσι σταδίους, καὶ αὖτις ὀπίσω ἐκ τοῦ ἱροῦ ἀπάγειν μιν τοὺς λύκους ἐς τὠυτὸ χωρίον. 2.122. They said that later this king went down alive to what the Greeks call Hades and there played dice with Demeter, and after winning some and losing some, came back with a gift from her of a golden hand towel. ,From the descent of Rhampsinitus, when he came back, they said that the Egyptians celebrate a festival, which I know that they celebrate to this day, but whether this is why they celebrate, I cannot say. ,On the day of the festival, the priests weave a cloth and bind it as a headband on the eyes of one of their number, whom they then lead, wearing the cloth, into a road that goes to the temple of Demeter; they themselves go back, but this priest with his eyes bandaged is guided (they say) by two wolves to Demeter's temple, a distance of three miles from the city, and led back again from the temple by the wolves to the same place.
9. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 245c. παρὰ θεῶν ἡ τοιαύτη μανία δίδοται· ἡ δὲ δὴ ἀπόδειξις ἔσται δεινοῖς μὲν ἄπιστος, σοφοῖς δὲ πιστή. δεῖ οὖν πρῶτον ψυχῆς φύσεως πέρι θείας τε καὶ ἀνθρωπίνης ἰδόντα πάθη τε καὶ ἔργα τἀληθὲς νοῆσαι· ἀρχὴ δὲ ἀποδείξεως ἥδε. 245c. is given by the gods for our greatest happiness; and our proof will not be believed by the merely clever, but will be accepted by the truly wise. First, then, we must learn the truth about the soul divine and human by observing how it acts and is acted upon. And the beginning of our proof is as follows: Every soul is immortal. For that which is ever moving is immortal but that which moves something else or is moved by something else, when it ceases to move, ceases to live. Only that which moves itself, since it does not leave itself, never ceases to move, and this is also
10. Theocritus, Idylls, 11, 4-7, 1 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
11. Horace, Odes, 3.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 3.4. TEMPER POWER WITH WISDOM O royal Calliope, come from heaven, and play a lengthy melody on the flute, or, if you prefer, use your clear voice, or pluck at the strings of Apollo’s lute. Do you hear her, or does some lovely fancy toy with me? I hear, and seem to wander, now, through the sacred groves, where delightful waters steal, where delightful breezes stray. In my childhood, once, on pathless Vultur’s slopes, beyond the bounds of nurturing Apulia, exhausted with my play and weariness, the fabled doves covered me with new leaves, which was a wonder to everyone who holds Acherontia’s high nest, and Bantia’s woodland pastures, and the rich meadows of low-lying Forentum, since I slept safe from the bears and from the dark vipers, the sacred laurel and the gathered myrtle spread above me, a courageous child, though it was thanks to the power of the gods. Yours Muses, yours, I climb the high Sabine Hills, or I’m carried off to my cool Praeneste, to the slopes of Tibur, if I please, or the cloudless loveliness of Baiae. A friend of your sacred fountains and your choirs, the rout of the army at Philippifailed to kill me, and that accursed tree, and Palinurus’ Sicilian Sea. Whenever you are with me, as a sailor I’ll attempt the raging Bosphorus, or be a traveller in the burning sands of the Syrian shore: as a stranger I’ll see the fierce inhospitable Britons, the Spaniards that love drinking horses’ blood, I’ll see the quiver-bearing Thracians, and, unharmed, visit the Scythian stream. It’s you then who refresh our noble Caesar, in your Pierian caves, when he’s settled his weary troops in all the cities, and he’s ready to complete his labours. You give calm advice, and you delight in that giving, kindly ones. We know how the evil Titans, how their savage supporters were struck down by the lightning from above, by him who rules the silent earth, the stormy sea, the cities, and the kingdoms of darkness, alone, in imperial justice, commanding the gods and the mortal crowd. Great terror was visited on Jupiterby all those bold warriors bristling with hands, and by the brothers who tried to set Pelion on shadowy Olympus. But what power could Giant Typhoeus have, or mighty Mimas, or that Porphyrionwith his menacing stance, Rhoetus, or Enceladus, audacious hurler of uprooted trees, against the bronze breastplate, Minerva’s aegis? On one side stood eager Vulcan, on the other maternal Juno, and Apollo of Pateraand Delos, who is never without the bow on his shoulder, who bathes his flowing hair in Castalia’s pure dew, who holds the forests, and thickets of Lycia. Power without wisdom falls by its own weight: The gods themselves advance temperate power: and likewise hate force that, with its whole consciousness, is intent on wickedness. Let hundred-handed Gyas be the witness to my statement: Orion too, well-known as chaste Dian’s attacker, and tamed by the arrows of the virgin goddess. Earth, heaped above her monstrous children, laments and grieves for her offspring, hurled down to murky Orcus by the lightning bolt: The swift fires have not yet eaten Aetna, set there, nor the vultures ceased tearing at the liver of intemperate Tityus, those guardians placed over his sin: and three hundred chains hold the amorous Pirithous fast.
12. Ovid, Tristia, 2.219-2.220 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 2.219. scilicet imperii princeps statione relicta 2.220. imparibus legeres carmina facta modis?
13. Vergil, Aeneis, 5.592-5.593, 7.37-7.45, 9.716 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 5.592. haud alio Teucrum nati vestigia cursu 5.593. impediunt texuntque fugas et proelia ludo 7.37. Nunc age, qui reges, Erato, quae tempora rerum 7.38. quis Latio antiquo fuerit status, advena classem 7.39. cum primum Ausoniis exercitus appulit oris 7.40. expediam et primae revocabo exordia pugnae. 7.41. tu vatem, tu, diva, mone. Dicam horrida bella 7.42. dicam acies actosque animis in funera reges 7.43. Tyrrhenamque manum totamque sub arma coactam 7.44. Hesperiam. Maior rerum mihi nascitur ordo 7.45. maius opus moveo. 9.716. Inarime Iovis imperiis imposta Typhoeo. 5.592. rushed fiercer to the fight, his strength now roused 5.593. by rage, while shame and courage confident 7.37. Then, gazing from the deep, Aeneas saw 7.38. a stretch of groves, whence Tiber 's smiling stream 7.39. its tumbling current rich with yellow sands 7.40. burst seaward forth: around it and above 7.41. hore-haunting birds of varied voice and plume 7.42. flattered the sky with song, and, circling far 7.43. o'er river-bed and grove, took joyful wing. 7.44. Thither to landward now his ships he steered 9.716. only with far-flung shafts the bastion strong.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles, gods time and	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
achilles (mythological hero)	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
aeneas	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57, 139
alcaeus	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
allusion, togigantomachy	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
anderson, william	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
aphrodite	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
apollo	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
apollo (god), depiction/imagery of	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
apollo (god), sanctuary at delos	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
archilochus	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 217
archê/ἀρχή	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 181
argentarius, m.	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
arma	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
augustus, jupiter linked to	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
belief, visual imagery as evidence	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
callimachus	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
calliope, gigantomachy and	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
calliope, in horace	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
calliope, song of	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
calliope	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
cameron, alan	Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 169
catalogue	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23, 108
commentary	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
contests, poetic	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
cos	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
cronus	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
dance	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
darkness	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
delos	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
dionysos (bacchus, god)	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
earth/earth/gaea	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
emathides, subversive use of genre by	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
encomium	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
epic	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
epic (poetry)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 108, 181
epic narrative	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
erato	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
eros	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
essence	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
euripides	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
ford, andrew	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
galatea	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 217
genealogical reckoning	Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 41
genealogy	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
gigantomachy, artistic creativity and	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
gigantomachy, as poetic theme	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
gigantomachy, emathides and subversion of	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
gigantomachy, in horace	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
gigantomachy, jupiter and	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57, 139
gods	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
gods and goddesses, depiction/imagery of	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
gods time, in greek and roman cultural tradition	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
gods time	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
greco-roman culture, gods time in	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
hardie, philip	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
harmony	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
helen of troy	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
helicon	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
heracles	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
hesiod, muses	Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 169
hesiod, myth of the races in	Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 41
hesiod, on gods time	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
hesiod, on zeus	Tor, Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology (2017) 61, 74
hesiod, shepherds … mere bellies	Tor, Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology (2017) 74
hesiod, the muses address	Tor, Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology (2017) 61, 74
hesiod, theogony	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87, 160; Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29; Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
hesiod, works and days	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
hesiod	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87; Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57; Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217; Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 41
hinds, stephen	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
homer, iliad	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
homer, odyssey, on gods time	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
homer, odyssey	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
homer, on gods time	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
hymn	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23, 108
iambus	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
intertextuality	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
jupiter (zeus), augustus linked to	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
jupiter (zeus), gigantomachy and	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57, 139
knowledge	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
lamberton, robert	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
latium	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
leaving the city, as a metaliterary metaphor	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
lesbos	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
leto (goddess)	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
lycidas	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
lyric	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
menelaus	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
mimesis	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
muses, in hesiod	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
muses, in horace	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
muses, theogony (hesiod)	Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 169
muses	Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 169; Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127; Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
muses (goddesses)	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
myth/mythology, transmission	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87, 160
mytilene	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
neoptolemus	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
night/nighttime, as deity	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
night/nighttime, as origin	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
night	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
nymphs, the	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
ocean/oceanus	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
odysseus, gods time and	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
ohara, james	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
pan	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
paris (homeric character)	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
perseus	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
piraeus	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 217
plato	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 217
poetic language, religious role of	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
poetic patronage	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
poetry, and aesthetic pleasure	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
poetry/poetic performance, homeric hymn to apollo	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
poets, encomium and	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
polyphemus	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 217
proem of book, and poetic/homeric unity	Greensmith, The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic: Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and the Poetics of Impersonation (2021) 169
propertius, in vergil	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
pyreneus	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
religion	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
rosati, gianpiero	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
sacrifice'	Tor, Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology (2017) 74
sappho	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216
simichidas	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
socrates	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 217
song	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
songs and music, construction of authority	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
songs and music, hymns	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
songs and music	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87, 160
stesichorus	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
telemachus	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
theagenes of rhegion	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160
themis	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
theocritus, poet	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
time/temporality	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
time	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
titans	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 23
traditional gods, souls of	Bartninkas, Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy (2023) 14
typhoeus	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57, 139
utopia	Kirichenko, Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age (2022) 216, 217
vergil, aeneid	Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
vergil, gigantomachy as deployed by	Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 57
versnel, hendrik s.	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
water (element)	Iribarren and Koning, Hesiod and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy (2022) 181
zeus, gods time and	Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (2022) 29
zeus	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 23
zeus (god)	Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 160