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Sophocles, Ajax, 1292
nan Pitiful creature, how can you be so blind as to argue the way you do? Are you not aware of the fact that your father’s father Pelops long ago was a barbarian, a Phrygian? That Atreus, your own begetter, set before his brother a most unholy feast made from the flesh of his brother’s children?

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1. Homer, Iliad, 2.100-2.108 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 2.100. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.101. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.102. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.103. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.104. /ceasing from their clamour. Then among them lord Agamemnon uprose, bearing in his hands the sceptre which Hephaestus had wrought with toil. Hephaestus gave it to king Zeus, son of Cronos, and Zeus gave it to the messenger Argeïphontes; and Hermes, the lord, gave it to Pelops, driver of horses 2.105. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos. 2.106. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos. 2.107. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos. 2.108. /and Pelops in turn gave it to Atreus, shepherd of the host; and Atreus at his death left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes again left it to Agamemnon to bear, that so he might be lord of many isles and of all Argos.
2. Tyrtaeus, Fragments, 2 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
3. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 1.24, 1.36-1.38, 1.93, 9.9 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Sophocles, Ajax, 1048-1291, 1293-1420, 445-446, 462-464, 666-668, 690-692, 719-814, 1047 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Sophocles, Antigone, 101-140, 269-270, 293-301, 342, 441-443, 469-472, 511, 582-603, 82, 825, 83-100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Sophocles, Electra, 505-507, 509, 513-515, 9-10 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 268, 267 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
8. Plutarch, Theseus, 3.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.22.3, 2.26.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 2.22.3. Now that the Tantalus is buried here who was the son of Thyestes or Broteas (both accounts are given) and married Clytaemnestra before Agamemnon did, I will not gainsay; but the grave of him who legend says was son of Zeus and Pluto—it is worth seeing—is on Mount Sipylus. I know because I saw it. Moreover, no constraint came upon him to flee from Sipylus, such as afterwards forced Pelops to run away when Ilus the Phrygian launched an army against him. But I must pursue the inquiry no further. The ritual performed at the pit hard by they say was instituted by Nicostratus, a native. Even at the present day they throw into the pit burning torches in honor of the Maid who is daughter of Demeter. 2.26.2. He went to Athens with his people and dwelt there, while Deiphontes and the Argives took possession of Epidauria. These on the death of Temenus seceded from the other Argives; Deiphontes and Hyrnetho through hatred of the sons of Temenus, and the army with them, because it respected Deiphontes and Hyrnetho more than Ceisus and his brothers. Epidaurus, who gave the land its name, was, the Eleans say, a son of Pelops but, according to Argive opinion and the poem the Great Eoeae, A poem attributed to Hesiod. the father of Epidaurus was Argus, son of Zeus, while the Epidaurians maintain that Epidaurus was the child of Apollo.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
agamemnon, tragic family of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
agamemnon	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61
ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
ajax (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162, 479
ambiguity in oaths	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
asia, as origin of pelops	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 229
atreus	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
audience, theatre	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
cadmus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
clytemnestra (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
electra (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
episodes, of ajax (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479
exodos, of ajax (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479
families, great tragic	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
fictive founder	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 229
fictive founders	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
foundation legend	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 229
foundation legends, argos	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 229
foundation legends, peloponnesus'	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 229
foundation legends, peloponnesus	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
foundation legends	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
general laius	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
helen of troy, suitors oath	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
hippodamia	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
iphianassa/iphigeneia	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
knox, b.m.w.	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61
labdacus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
menelaus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61
myths, and sophocles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
narrative pace	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
narrative power	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
orestes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
peloponnesus, foundation legend	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 229
pelops, as founder	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227, 229
pelops	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162; 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
pindar	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 227
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) 479
structure, of ajax (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479
suitors (of helen) oath	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 109
thucydides	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 229
tradition, mythic	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 162
xerxes	Gruen, Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011) 229