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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



10408
Sophocles, Ajax, 1103


nanOn what grounds are you his commander? On what grounds have you a right to kingship over the men whom he brought from home? It was as Sparta ’s king that you came, not as master over us. Nowhere was it established among your lawful powers that you should order him any more than he you.


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1. Sophocles, Ajax, 1001-1027, 1047-1102, 1104-1319, 132, 1320-1329, 133, 1330-1420, 445-446, 462-464, 666-668, 690-692, 719-814, 866-879, 891-893, 915-916, 939-940, 952-970, 988-989, 992-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

2. Sophocles, Antigone, 1104, 1103 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Sophocles, Electra, 281, 280 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 888, 895-896, 887 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1036-1037, 510-518, 1035 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 281-282, 280 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

280. For the gods do not love criminal behavior either. So those men, who gloried in bitter speech, are themselves residents of Hades, all of them, and their city is enslaved. And the women whom you see, fallen from happiness to misery


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agamemnon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61
agōn scene Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
ajax, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
ajax, chorus Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
ajax, chorus and army Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 478; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357, 430
ajax (sophocles), and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 478
ambiguity in oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
athena Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
atreus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
audience, theatre Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
calchas Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
chorus, antigone, flexible Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
chorus, antigone, in danger and safe Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
chorus, antigone, part of 'the large group'" Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
chorus, the, in agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
chorus Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
clytaemestra Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
creon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
dialogue, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
epiparodos Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 478
episodes, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 478
groups, and individuals Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
groups, threatened and safe Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
helen of troy, suitors oath Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
heracles Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
knox, b.m.w. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61
lichas Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
menelaus, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
menelaus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61, 430
messenger, tragic Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
narrative pace Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
narrative power Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
neoptolemus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
odysseus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
pelops Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
perjury, and sophoclean oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
perspective Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 241
philoctetes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
rhythm, in an agōn scene Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
spartan oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
stasima, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 478
structure, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 478
suitors (of helen) oath' Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
teucer, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 284
theseus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430
zeus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 430