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Hesiod, Theogony, 40-45


ἐκ στομάτων ἡδεῖα· γελᾷ δέ τε δώματα πατρὸςWith the Muses, who enliven the great heart


Ζηνὸς ἐριγδούποιο θεᾶν ὀπὶ λειριοέσσῃOf Zeus on Mt. Olympus as they sing


σκιδναμένῃ· ἠχεῖ δὲ κάρη νιφόεντος ὈλύμπουOf present, past and future, warbling


δώματά τʼ ἀθανάτων. αἳ δʼ ἄμβροτον ὄσσαν ἱεῖσαιWith one accord. Unwearied, all around


θεῶν γένος αἰδοῖον πρῶτον κλείουσιν ἀοιδῇThe house their lips emit the sweetest sound


ἐξ ἀρχῆς, οὓς Γαῖα καὶ Οὐρανὸς εὐρὺς ἔτικτενAnd thundering Zeus laughs loud in ecstasy


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

10 results
1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 10, 2, 202-212, 232-233, 3, 308-313, 4-5, 509-511, 6, 639-640, 7-9, 1 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1. Pierian Muses, with your songs of praise
2. Hesiod, Theogony, 10, 100-109, 11, 110-115, 12, 126-129, 13, 130-132, 14-19, 2, 20-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 41-48, 482-484, 49, 5, 50-59, 6, 60-69, 7, 70-79, 8, 80-89, 9, 90-99, 1 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1. From the Heliconian Muses let me sing:
3. Homer, Iliad, 2.484-2.492 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

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
4. Homeric Hymns, To Apollo And The Muses, 157-164, 156 (8th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE)

156. You walked on craggy Cynthus or abroad
5. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 676, 1480 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1480. Dance to Artemis, queen Artemis the blest, around her shrine and altar; for by the blood of my sacrifice I will blot out the oracle
6. Horace, Odes, 3.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.4. he found no one but Vespasian equal to the task, and able to undergo the great burden of so mighty a war, seeing he was growing an old man already in the camp, and from his youth had been exercised in warlike exploits: he was also a man that had long ago pacified the west, and made it subject to the Romans, when it had been put into disorder by the Germans; he had also recovered to them Britain by his arms 3.4. “Thou, O Vespasian, thinkest no more than that thou hast taken Josephus himself captive; but I come to thee as a messenger of greater tidings; for had not I been sent by God to thee, I knew what was the law of the Jews in this case? and how it becomes generals to die. 3.4. its length is also from Meloth to Thella, a village near to Jordan.
7. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 5.1452-5.1453 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

8. Ovid, Tristia, 2.219-2.220 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

9. Vergil, Aeneis, 5.592-5.593, 7.37-7.45, 9.716 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

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.
10. Vergil, Georgics, 1.127, 1.130, 1.139-1.145, 1.151, 1.486, 1.495, 1.505, 1.511 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.139. O'erweigh the stalk, while yet in tender blade 1.140. Feeds down the crop's luxuriance, when its growth 1.141. First tops the furrows? Why of him who drain 1.142. The marsh-land's gathered ooze through soaking sand 1.143. Chiefly what time in treacherous moons a stream 1.144. Goes out in spate, and with its coat of slime 1.145. Holds all the country, whence the hollow dyke 1.151. And succory's bitter fibres cease to harm 1.486. Round Asian meads within thy fresher-pools 1.495. Know not the storm-sign, when in blazing crock 1.505. Do halcyons dear to Thetis ope their wings 1.511. Distinct in clearest air is Nisus seen


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
achilles Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 53
aeneas Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
aetia, books 1 and 2, muses in Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 333
altars on mountain summits Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
anderson, william Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
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
argentarius, m. Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
aristophanes Castagnoli and Ceccarelli, Greek Memories: Theories and Practices (2019) 115
arma Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
askra (ascra) Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
asteropaeus Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 53
augustine, of poetry Castagnoli and Ceccarelli, Greek Memories: Theories and Practices (2019) 115
belief, visual imagery as evidence Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
black sea, landscape Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27
callimachus, and the muses Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 333
callimachus (narrator) Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 333
calliope, song of Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
calliope Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
caves Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
commentary Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
dance Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
delos Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
emathides, subversive use of genre by Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
epic Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
epiphany Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
epos Albrecht, The Divine Father: Religious and Philosophical Concepts of Divine Parenthood in Antiquity (2014) 49
erato Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
essence Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
father, fatherhood Albrecht, The Divine Father: Religious and Philosophical Concepts of Divine Parenthood in Antiquity (2014) 49
fire Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 54
gaia Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
gigantomachy, artistic creativity and Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
gigantomachy, emathides and subversion of Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
gigantomachy, jupiter and Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
gods and goddesses, depiction/imagery of Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
golden age, in georgic Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99
harmony Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 195
hesiod, the muses address' Tor, Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology (2017) 73
hesiod, theogony Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
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; Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27; Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99
hinds, stephen Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
hippokrene (hippocrene) spring Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
homeric hymn to pan Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
homeric hymns Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
hubris, general human-environment relations Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
hymn to the muses, theogony Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 333
iron age, instituted by jove Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99
jove, and iron age Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 99
jupiter (zeus), gigantomachy and Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
kronos Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
latium Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
leto (goddess) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
mount aigaion Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
mount helikon (helicon) Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
mount olympus Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27
mountains, and the divine Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27
muses, callimachus and Acosta-Hughes Lehnus and Stephens, Brill's Companion to Callimachus (2011) 333
muses Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127; Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27
myth/mythology, transmission Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
myth Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27
nymphs Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
pan Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
pindar Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 53
poetic/musical inspiration Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
poetic language, religious role of Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
poetry/poetic performance, homeric hymn to apollo Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
pyreneus Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
rhea Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
rosati, gianpiero Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
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
storms Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
thessaly Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
thunder Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27
titans Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
trojans Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 53
typhoeus Johnson, Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses (2008) 139
vergil, aeneid Keith and Myers, Vergil and Elegy (2023) 127
versnel, hendrik s. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 87
water Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 53, 54
wood-cutting Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 27
zeus, zeus, birth of Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26
zeus Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 53, 54; Konig, The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (2022) 26, 27