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Pindar, Pythian Odes, 5.96-5.103
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1. Pindar, Isthmian Odes, 6.19 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

2. Pindar, Nemean Odes, 4.46-4.53 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 1.36, 8.77-8.80, 14.21 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 5.93-5.99, 5.101-5.103, 8.38-8.55 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Herodotus, Histories, 1.67-1.68, 6.38 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1.67. In the previous war the Lacedaemonians continually fought unsuccessfully against the Tegeans, but in the time of Croesus and the kingship of Anaxandrides and Ariston in Lacedaemon the Spartans had gained the upper hand. This is how: ,when they kept being defeated by the Tegeans, they sent ambassadors to Delphi to ask which god they should propitiate to prevail against the Tegeans in war. The Pythia responded that they should bring back the bones of Orestes, son of Agamemnon. ,When they were unable to discover Orestes' tomb, they sent once more to the god to ask where he was buried. The Pythia responded in hexameter to the messengers: , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"There is a place Tegea in the smooth plain of Arcadia, /l lWhere two winds blow under strong compulsion. /l lBlow lies upon blow, woe upon woe. /l lThere the life-giving earth covers the son of Agamemnon. /l lBring him back, and you shall be lord of Tegea . /l /quote ,When the Lacedaemonians heard this, they were no closer to discovery, though they looked everywhere. Finally it was found by Lichas, who was one of the Spartans who are called “doers of good deeds.”. These men are those citizens who retire from the knights, the five oldest each year. They have to spend the year in which they retire from the knights being sent here and there by the Spartan state, never resting in their efforts. 1.68. It was Lichas, one of these men, who found the tomb in Tegea by a combination of luck and skill. At that time there was free access to Tegea, so he went into a blacksmith's shop and watched iron being forged, standing there in amazement at what he saw done. ,The smith perceived that he was amazed, so he stopped what he was doing and said, “My Laconian guest, if you had seen what I saw, then you would really be amazed, since you marvel so at ironworking. ,I wanted to dig a well in the courtyard here, and in my digging I hit upon a coffin twelve feet long. I could not believe that there had ever been men taller than now, so I opened it and saw that the corpse was just as long as the coffin. I measured it and then reburied it.” So the smith told what he had seen, and Lichas thought about what was said and reckoned that this was Orestes, according to the oracle. ,In the smith's two bellows he found the winds, hammer and anvil were blow upon blow, and the forging of iron was woe upon woe, since he figured that iron was discovered as an evil for the human race. ,After reasoning this out, he went back to Sparta and told the Lacedaemonians everything. They made a pretence of bringing a charge against him and banishing him. Coming to Tegea, he explained his misfortune to the smith and tried to rent the courtyard, but the smith did not want to lease it. ,Finally he persuaded him and set up residence there. He dug up the grave and collected the bones, then hurried off to Sparta with them. Ever since then the Spartans were far superior to the Tegeans whenever they met each other in battle. By the time of Croesus' inquiry, the Spartans had subdued most of the Peloponnese . 6.38. So he escaped by the intervention of Croesus, but he later died childless and left his rule and possessions to Stesagoras, the son of his half-brother Cimon. Since his death, the people of the Chersonese offer sacrifices to him as their founder in the customary manner, instituting a contest of horse races and gymnastics. No one from Lampsacus is allowed to compete. ,But in the war against the Lampsacenes Stesagoras too met his end and died childless; he was struck on the head with an axe in the town-hall by a man who pretended to be a deserter but in truth was an enemy and a man of violence.
6. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 5.11.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

5.11.1. After this all the allies attended in arms and buried Brasidas at the public expense in the city, in front of what is now the market-place, and the Amphipolitans having enclosed his tomb, ever afterwards sacrifice to him as a hero and have given to him the honor of games and annual offerings. They constituted him the founder of their colony, and pulled down the Hagnonic erections and obliterated everything that could be interpreted as a memorial of his having founded the place; for they considered that Brasidas had been their preserver and courting as they did the alliance of Lacedaemon for fear of Athens, in their present hostile relations with the latter they could no longer with the same advantage or satisfaction pay Hagnon his honors.
7. Demosthenes, Orations, 60.34 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

8. Plutarch, Lysander, 18.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
adrastos, seven against thebes Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
afterlife, continuation model Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
afterlife, in pindar McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
afterlife Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
alkimedon (in pindars ol. McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
alkmaion Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
amphiaraos, as oracle Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
amphiaraos Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
ancestor cults Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
chromos Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 103
civic cults Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
disorientation Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
fame (kleos) McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
groups, mystic groups/circles McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
hero cults Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
historical consciousness Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 103
immortality, of fame Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
johnston, sarah iles Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
larson, j. Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
linear and cyclical time Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 103
memory (mnemosyne), famed bacchants (postmortem memory) McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
mystic groups/circles McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
objective memory McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
pelinna tablet (of 485/486) McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
performance culture Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
pherai tablet (of 493a) McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
pindar, afterlife McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
pindar Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 103; McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
prophecy Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
purity, amphipolis tablet (of McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
reconstruction of the past Marincola et al., Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver, Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras: History Without Historians (2021) 103
social memory, in pindar McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
sparta, state cults Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551
thebes, seven against Eisenfeld, Pindar and Greek Religion Theologies of Mortality in the Victory Odes (2022) 188
thurii tablet (of 489), and the zagreus myth McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
thurii tablet (of 490), and the zagreus myth McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
transformation, and the zagreus myth' McClay, The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance (2023) 67
tritipatores Wolfsdorf, Early Greek Ethics (2020) 551