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1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 782-787, 799-804, 810-811, 813-817, 827-828, 830-833, 841, 855-891, 316 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 316. ἀνδρὸς παραγγείλαντος ἐκ Τροίας ἐμοί. Χορός 316. My husband having sent me news from CHOROS.
2. Euripides, Bacchae, 919, 918 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 918. καὶ μὴν ὁρᾶν μοι δύο μὲν ἡλίους δοκῶ 918. Oh look! I think I see two suns, and twin Thebes , the seven-gated city.
3. Herodotus, Histories, 6.66, 7.140 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 6.66. Disputes arose over it, so the Spartans resolved to ask the oracle at Delphi if Demaratus was the son of Ariston. ,At Cleomenes' instigation this was revealed to the Pythia. He had won over a man of great influence among the Delphians, Cobon son of Aristophantus, and Cobon persuaded the priestess, Periallus, to say what Cleomenes wanted her to. ,When the ambassadors asked if Demaratus was the son of Ariston, the Pythia gave judgment that he was not. All this came to light later; Cobon was exiled from Delphi, and Periallus was deposed from her position. 7.140. The Athenians had sent messages to Delphi asking that an oracle be given them, and when they had performed all due rites at the temple and sat down in the inner hall, the priestess, whose name was Aristonice, gave them this answer: , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Wretches, why do you linger here? Rather flee from your houses and city, /l lFlee to the ends of the earth from the circle embattled of Athens! /l lThe head will not remain in its place, nor in the body, /l lNor the feet beneath, nor the hands, nor the parts between; /l lBut all is ruined, for fire and the headlong god of war speeding in a Syrian chariot will bring you low. /l /quote , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Many a fortress too, not yours alone, will he shatter; /l lMany a shrine of the gods will he give to the flame for devouring; /l lSweating for fear they stand, and quaking for dread of the enemy, /l lRunning with gore are their roofs, foreseeing the stress of their sorrow; /l lTherefore I bid you depart from the sanctuary. /l lHave courage to lighten your evil. /l /quote
4. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 874-882, 873 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Cicero, On Divination, 2.127-2.128 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 2.127. Iam vero quid opus est circumitione et anfractu, ut sit utendum interpretibus somniorum potius, quam derecto deus, siquidem nobis consulebat, Hoc facito, hoc ne feceris diceret idque visum vigilanti potius quam dormienti daret? Iam vero quis dicere audeat vera omnia esse somnia? Aliquot somnia vera, inquit Ennius, sed omnia noenum necesse est . Quae est tandem ista distinctio? quae vera, quae falsa habet? et, si vera a deo mittuntur, falsa unde nascuntur? nam si ea quoque divina, quid inconstantius deo? quid inscitius autem est quam mentes mortalium falsis et mendacibus visis concitare? sin vera visa divina sunt, falsa autem et iia humana, quae est ista desigdi licentia, ut hoc deus, hoc natura fecerit potius quam aut omnia deus, quod negatis, aut omnia natura? quodquoniam illud negatis, hoc necessario confitendum est. 2.128. Naturam autem eam dico, qua numquam animus insistens agitatione et motu esse vacuus potest. Is cum languore corporis nec membris uti nec sensibus potest, incidit in visa varia et incerta ex reliquiis, ut ait Aristoteles, inhaerentibus earum rerum, quas vigilans gesserit aut cogitaverit; quarum perturbatione mirabiles interdum existunt species somniorum; quae si alia falsa, alia vera, qua nota internoscantur, scire sane velim. Si nulla est, quid istos interpretes audiamus? sin quaepiam est, aveo audire, quae sit; sed haerebunt. 2.127. And further, what is the need of a method which, instead of being direct, is so circuitous and roundabout that we have to employ men to interpret our dreams? And if it be true that God consults for our advantage he would say: Do this, Dont do that, and not give us visions when we are awake rather than when we are asleep.[62] And further, would anybody dare to say that all dreams are true? Some dreams are true, says Ennius, but not necessarily all. Pray how do you distinguish between the two? What mark have the false and what the true? And if God sends the true, whence come the false? Surely if God sends the false ones too what is more untrustworthy than God? Besides what is more stupid than to excite the souls of mortals with false and lying visions? But if true visions are divine while the false and meaningless ones are from nature, what sort of caprice decided that God made the one and nature made the other, rather than that God made them all, which your school denies, or that nature made them all? Since you deny that God made them all you must admit that nature made them all. 2.128. By nature, in this connexion, I mean that force because of which the soul can never be stationary and free from motion and activity. And when, because of the weariness of the body, the soul can use neither the limbs nor the senses, it lapses into varied and untrustworthy visions, which emanate from what Aristotle terms the clinging remts of the souls waking acts and thoughts. These remts, when aroused, sometimes produce strange types of dreams. Now if some of these dreams are true and others false, I should like very much to know by what mark they may be distinguished. If there is none, why should we listen to your interpreters? But if there is one, I am eager for them to tell me what it is, but they will grow confused when I ask and will not answer. [63]
6. Livy, History, 2.32.9-2.32.12 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Vergil, Aeneis, 4.470 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 4.470. of my unnumbered debts so strongly urged
8. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.685-1.686 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
9. Phlegon of Tralles, On Miraculous Things, 10 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Plutarch, Oracles At Delphi No Longer Given In Verse, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
11. Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, 10.1.126, 10.1.129 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
12. Seneca The Younger, Agamemnon, 35-36, 588, 710-729, 731-775, 778, 794-795, 867-909, 34 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
13. Tacitus, Annals, 1.12 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 1.12.  The senate, meanwhile, was descending to the most abject supplications, when Tiberius casually observed that, unequal as he felt himself to the whole weight of government, he would still undertake the charge of any one department that might be assigned to him. Asinius Gallus then said:— "I ask you, Caesar, what department you wish to be assigned you." This unforeseen inquiry threw him off his balance. He was silent for a few moments; then recovered himself, and answered that it would not at all become his diffidence to select or shun any part of a burden from which he would prefer to be wholly excused. Gallus, who had conjectured anger from his look, resumed:— "The question had been put to him, not with the hope that he would divide the inseparable, but to gain from his own lips an admission that the body politic was a single organism needing to be governed by a single intelligence." He added a panegyric on Augustus, and urged Tiberius to remember his own victories and the brilliant work which he had done year after year in the garb of peace. He failed, however, to soothe the imperial anger: he had been a hated man ever since his marriage to Vipsania (daughter of Marcus Agrippa, and once the wife of Tiberius), which had given the impression that he had ambitions denied to a subject and retained the temerity of his father Asinius Pollio.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeneas at cumae, echoes in senecas agamemnon	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 204
aeschylus, double vision	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 204
aeschylus, role doubling in	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 204
agamemnon	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101, 193; Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 336
ajax (oileus)	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
altar	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
aper, marcus	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101
apollo	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
argos (polis)	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
assassination	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
audience	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101, 193
bacchic/dionysiac inspiration	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 204
cassandra	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193; Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 336; Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 71
chaos	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 229
clementia (clemency)	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
clytemnestra	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
death	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
delphic oracle	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
destruction	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
dido	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 204
dionysiac/bacchic inspiration	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 204
dismemberment	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
divination	Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 336, 337, 338, 339
ecstasy	Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 339
electra	Pillinger, Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature (2019) 204
epic	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
eurybates	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
fabia the vestal	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70
furies	Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 337
graffiti	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101
hadrian	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70
heaven, as mundus	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 229
heaven	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 229
hercules	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101
heroic age	Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 338
hybris	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
inspired prophecy	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
jupiter	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
messenger	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
mt. oeta	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101
mundus	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 229
murder	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
oracles	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
performativity	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70
pompeii, large theatre	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101
posidonius	Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 336
priam	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
pythia	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
quintilian	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187, 188
reception	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101
recitation	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 101
rhetoric	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
rome	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 229
seneca, medea	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
seneca, on bees	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
seneca, rulers and ruled in	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
seneca, thyestes	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187, 188
seneca, tragedies of	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187, 188
seneca, works agamemnon	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187, 188
sibyl, sibyl of the books	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
sibyl, sibylline books	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
sibyl	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70, 71
soldiers	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
sophocles oedipus tyrannus	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 188
space'	Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 229
speech	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
stoicism	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
storm	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
tacitus, works annales (annals)	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
trojans	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
troy	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193; Horkey, Cosmos in the Ancient World (2019) 229
varius, thyestes	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
vergil	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187
vestal virgins	Mowat, Engendering the Future: Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic (2021) 70
violence	Harrison, Brill's Companion to Roman Tragedy (2015) 193
xenophon, hiero	Fertik, The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome (2019) 187