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Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.263-2.264
nan Thus, mindful of his youth, the aged man Wept for the past, but feared the coming days. Such terrors found in haughty Brutus' breast No home. When others sat them down to fear He did not so, but in the dewy night When the great wain was turning round the pole He sought his kinsman Cato's humble home. Him sleepless did he find, not for himself Fearing, but pondering the fates of Rome, And deep in public cares. And thus he spake:
nan Thus, mindful of his youth, the aged man Wept for the past, but feared the coming days. Such terrors found in haughty Brutus' breast No home. When others sat them down to fear He did not so, but in the dewy night When the great wain was turning round the pole He sought his kinsman Cato's humble home. Him sleepless did he find, not for himself Fearing, but pondering the fates of Rome, And deep in public cares. And thus he spake:

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1. Homer, Iliad, 6.321-6.329, 6.331 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 6.321. /the spear-point of bronze, around which ran a ring of gold. He found Paris in his chamber busied with his beauteous arms, his shield and his corselet, and handling his curved bow; and Argive Helen sat amid her serving-women and appointed to them their glorious handiwork. 6.322. /the spear-point of bronze, around which ran a ring of gold. He found Paris in his chamber busied with his beauteous arms, his shield and his corselet, and handling his curved bow; and Argive Helen sat amid her serving-women and appointed to them their glorious handiwork. 6.323. /the spear-point of bronze, around which ran a ring of gold. He found Paris in his chamber busied with his beauteous arms, his shield and his corselet, and handling his curved bow; and Argive Helen sat amid her serving-women and appointed to them their glorious handiwork. 6.324. /the spear-point of bronze, around which ran a ring of gold. He found Paris in his chamber busied with his beauteous arms, his shield and his corselet, and handling his curved bow; and Argive Helen sat amid her serving-women and appointed to them their glorious handiwork. 6.325. /And at sight of him Hector rebuked him with words of shame:Strange man, thou dost not well to nurse this anger in thy heart. Thy people are perishing about the town and the steep wall in battle, and it is because of thee that the battle-cry and the war are ablaze about this city; thou wouldest thyself vent wrath on any other 6.326. /And at sight of him Hector rebuked him with words of shame:Strange man, thou dost not well to nurse this anger in thy heart. Thy people are perishing about the town and the steep wall in battle, and it is because of thee that the battle-cry and the war are ablaze about this city; thou wouldest thyself vent wrath on any other 6.327. /And at sight of him Hector rebuked him with words of shame:Strange man, thou dost not well to nurse this anger in thy heart. Thy people are perishing about the town and the steep wall in battle, and it is because of thee that the battle-cry and the war are ablaze about this city; thou wouldest thyself vent wrath on any other 6.328. /And at sight of him Hector rebuked him with words of shame:Strange man, thou dost not well to nurse this anger in thy heart. Thy people are perishing about the town and the steep wall in battle, and it is because of thee that the battle-cry and the war are ablaze about this city; thou wouldest thyself vent wrath on any other 6.329. /And at sight of him Hector rebuked him with words of shame:Strange man, thou dost not well to nurse this anger in thy heart. Thy people are perishing about the town and the steep wall in battle, and it is because of thee that the battle-cry and the war are ablaze about this city; thou wouldest thyself vent wrath on any other 6.331. /whomso thou shouldest haply see shrinking from hateful war. Nay, then, rouse thee, lest soon the city blaze with consuming fire.
2. Homer, Odyssey, 23.166-23.240, 23.247-23.253, 23.266-23.284, 23.295-23.343, 23.347, 24.114-24.119 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
3. Herodotus, Histories, 3.80 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 3.80. After the tumult quieted down, and five days passed, the rebels against the Magi held a council on the whole state of affairs, at which sentiments were uttered which to some Greeks seem incredible, but there is no doubt that they were spoken. ,Otanes was for turning the government over to the Persian people: “It seems to me,” he said, “that there can no longer be a single sovereign over us, for that is not pleasant or good. You saw the insolence of Cambyses, how far it went, and you had your share of the insolence of the Magus. ,How can monarchy be a fit thing, when the ruler can do what he wants with impunity? Give this power to the best man on earth, and it would stir him to unaccustomed thoughts. Insolence is created in him by the good things to hand, while from birth envy is rooted in man. ,Acquiring the two he possesses complete evil; for being satiated he does many reckless things, some from insolence, some from envy. And yet an absolute ruler ought to be free of envy, having all good things; but he becomes the opposite of this towards his citizens; he envies the best who thrive and live, and is pleased by the worst of his fellows; and he is the best confidant of slander. ,of all men he is the most inconsistent; for if you admire him modestly he is angry that you do not give him excessive attention, but if one gives him excessive attention he is angry because one is a flatter. But I have yet worse to say of him than that; he upsets the ancestral ways and rapes women and kills indiscriminately. ,But the rule of the multitude has in the first place the loveliest name of all, equality, and does in the second place none of the things that a monarch does. It determines offices by lot, and holds power accountable, and conducts all deliberating publicly. Therefore I give my opinion that we make an end of monarchy and exalt the multitude, for all things are possible for the majority.”
4. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.466-6.474, 6.549-6.550 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
5. Ovid, Tristia, 2.375-2.376 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Vergil, Aeneis, 7.266-7.268 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 7.266. Once out of Tuscan Corythus he fared; 7.267. but now in golden house among the stars 7.268. he has a throne, and by his altars blest
7. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.243, 2.264, 2.266-2.273, 2.286-2.292, 2.297-2.307, 2.312, 2.315, 2.317-2.323, 2.327-2.333, 7.385-7.459 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
8. Seneca The Younger, Hercules Furens, 333-353, 931-933, 935-937, 332 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
9. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 700-708, 699 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
10. Seneca The Younger, Thyestes, 205-219, 340-399, 204 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
achilles	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
aeneas, as tyrannus	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38
agamemnon	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39; Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 192
atreus	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
caesar, c. julius, lucan	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
cato, the younger	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
cato the younger, as anti-odyssean	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 192, 193
creon, sen. king oedipus	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
eteocles, sen. phoen.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
fear, as principle of government or ruling device	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
fear, tyrants psychology	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
hercules	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
homer, model / anti-model for lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 192, 193
jupiter, aen.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38
jupiter, met.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38
juturna	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38
marcia	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 193
nero	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
nostos, as master-trope explored by lucan'	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 193
nostos, as master-trope explored by lucan	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 192
odysseus	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 192, 193
ovid	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 193
penelope	Joseph, Thunder and Lament: Lucan on the Beginnings and Ends of Epic (2022) 193
pluto, ov. met.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38
pompey	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
seneca, herc. fur.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
seneca, oed.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
seneca, thy.	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
stoicism, fate	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
suicide, anger	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
tereus	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
thyestes	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
turnus, as tyrannus	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38
turnus	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38
tyrant, epic tradition	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
tyrant, psychology of	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 38, 39
tyrant, roman stock	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39
tyrant, senecas tragedies	Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 39