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Homer, Iliad, 23.43


οὐ μὰ Ζῆνʼ, ὅς τίς τε θεῶν ὕπατος καὶ ἄριστοςet upon the fire a great cauldron, if so be they might persuade the son of Peleus to wash from him the bloody gore. But he steadfastly denied them, and swore an oath thereto:Nay, verily by Zeus, that is highest and best of gods, it may not be that water should come nigh my head


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

8 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 1.86, 1.234, 19.258 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.86. /for by Apollo, dear to Zeus, to whom you, Calchas, pray when you reveal oracles to the Danaans, no one, while I live and have sight on the earth, shall lay heavy hands on you beside the hollow ships, no one of the whole host of the Danaans 1.234. /People-devouring king, since you rule over nobodies; else, son of Atreus, this would be your last piece of insolence. But I will speak out to you, and will swear thereto a mighty oath: by this staff, that shall never more put forth leaves or shoots since first it left its stump among the mountains 19.258. /made prayer to Zeus; and all the Argives sat thereby in silence, hearkening as was meet unto the king. And he spake in prayer, with a look up to the wide heaven:Be Zeus my witness first, highest and best of gods, and Earth and Sun, and the Erinyes, that under earth
2. Homer, Odyssey, 19.303 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Pindar, Fragments, 57 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Aristophanes, Knights, 834-836, 833 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

833. νὴ τὴν Δήμητρ', ἢ μὴ ζῴην
5. Aristophanes, Clouds, 1255 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1255. θήσω πρυτανεῖ' ἢ μηκέτι ζῴην ἐγώ.
6. Euripides, Orestes, 1148, 1147 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.172 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

8. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 21, 7, 77, 10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

10. for reason proves that the father and creator has a care for that which has been created; for a father is anxious for the life of his children, and a workman aims at the duration of his works, and employs every device imaginable to ward off everything that is pernicious or injurious, and is desirous by every means in his power to provide everything which is useful or profitable for them. But with regard to that which has not been created, there is no feeling of interest as if it were his own in the breast of him who has not created it.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
absent oaths, oaths sworn by Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
aeschines (orator) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
agamemnon, and achilles Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
agamemnon, oaths sworn by Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215
algea (sufferings), oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115
amphion and zethus, oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
aphrodite paphia, (a)pistos ((un)trustworthy) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 224
arcadians Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
being (τó είναι) Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
boeotian oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
briseis Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215
calchas Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
castor and pollux (twin gods), oaths, invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
creative causes Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
definite articles Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
demeter, oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
demosthenes Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
eideshorte Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
emphasis in oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 217, 224
eris (strife) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115
exōmosiai (oaths of excusal) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115
god, cause Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
god, craftsman (άριστοτέχνης) Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
god, creator-god (δημι ουργός θεός) Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
god, maker (ποιητής) Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
god Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
god of gods Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
herodotus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
homer, oaths, language of Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
horkia Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215
horkos Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215
hystaspas, iambus, oaths in Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
images Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
informal oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
ittō oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
kore (persephone) as oath witness Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
law-courts, self-curses in Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
ma oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115
marathon, battle of, oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115
megarian oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
miltiades, oaths sworn by Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115
nai ma oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80, 215, 217
narrative and oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 224
negative oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
nē oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
orchomenus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
ou ma oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215, 217
paphos inscription Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
patroclus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81, 217
penelope Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115
persephone (kore) as oath witness Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
philip of macedon Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
plato Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215
satyr-dramas Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
spartan oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
substances (ούσία), rational Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
sybarite oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
telemachus, oaths sworn by Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215
telemachus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
thebes, zethus and amphion Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
theoclymenus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 81
trust, engendered through oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 217
twin gods (castor and pollux) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
volunteered oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 215, 217, 224
well-being Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
women and oaths' Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
worth (άξία) Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 175
zethus and amphion, oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
zeus, oaths invoking, definite article and Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 80
zeus, oaths invoking Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 115