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Sophocles, Ajax, 1390-1392


nanand the unforgetting Fury and Justice the Fulfiller destroy them for their wickedness with wicked deaths, just as they sought to cast this man out with unmerited, outrageous mistreatment. But you, progeny of aged Laertes, I hesitate to permit you to touch the corpse in burial


nanand the unforgetting Fury and Justice the Fulfiller destroy them for their wickedness with wicked deaths, just as they sought to cast this man out with unmerited, outrageous mistreatment. But you, progeny of aged Laertes, I hesitate to permit you to touch the corpse in burial


nanand the unforgetting Fury and Justice the Fulfiller destroy them for their wickedness with wicked deaths, just as they sought to cast this man out with unmerited, outrageous mistreatment. But you, progeny of aged Laertes, I hesitate to permit you to touch the corpse in burial


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

19 results
1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 803-804, 802 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

802. And prayed and washed your hands in it. If you
2. Hesiod, Theogony, 226-232, 793-806, 182 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

182. And of it shaped a sickle, then relayed
3. Homer, Iliad, 9.568-9.572 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

9.568. /By her side lay Meleager nursing his bitter anger, wroth because of his mother's curses; for she prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother's slaying; and furthermore instantly beat with her hands upon the all-nurturing earth, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone 9.569. /By her side lay Meleager nursing his bitter anger, wroth because of his mother's curses; for she prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother's slaying; and furthermore instantly beat with her hands upon the all-nurturing earth, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone 9.570. /the while she knelt and made the folds of her bosom wet with tears, that they should bring death upon her son; and the Erinys that walketh in darkness heard her from Erebus, even she of the ungentle heart. Now anon was the din of the foemen risen about their gates, and the noise of the battering of walls, and to Meleager the elders 9.571. /the while she knelt and made the folds of her bosom wet with tears, that they should bring death upon her son; and the Erinys that walketh in darkness heard her from Erebus, even she of the ungentle heart. Now anon was the din of the foemen risen about their gates, and the noise of the battering of walls, and to Meleager the elders 9.572. /the while she knelt and made the folds of her bosom wet with tears, that they should bring death upon her son; and the Erinys that walketh in darkness heard her from Erebus, even she of the ungentle heart. Now anon was the din of the foemen risen about their gates, and the noise of the battering of walls, and to Meleager the elders
4. Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 721-725, 720 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

720. πέφρικα τὰν ὠλεσίοικον 720. I shudder in terror at the goddess who lays ruin to homes, a goddess unlike other divinities, who is an unerring omen of evil to come. I shudder that the Erinys invoked by the father’s prayer will fulfil the over-wrathful
5. Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Euripides, Medea, 1390, 1389 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1389. The curse of our sons’ avenging spirit and of Justice
7. Sophocles, Ajax, 1048-1209, 121, 1210-1219, 122, 1220-1229, 123, 1230-1239, 124, 1240-1249, 125, 1250-1259, 126, 1260-1269, 127, 1270-1279, 128, 1280-1289, 129, 1290-1299, 130, 1300-1309, 131, 1310-1319, 132, 1320-1329, 133, 1330-1389, 1391-1420, 387-391, 492-493, 577, 719-814, 835-844, 962-963, 1047 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Sophocles, Antigone, 605-608, 604 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Sophocles, Electra, 111-116, 1376-1383, 431-437, 472-477, 489-491, 634-659, 67-72, 110 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 1298-1299, 1370-1396, 1515, 621-623, 791-793, 864-870, 1086 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 903-904, 202 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

12. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1324 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

13. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 1165-1174, 127-128, 169-172, 200-201, 303-305, 500-502, 807-812, 1164 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1164. perish by no creature that had the breath of life, but by one already dead, a dweller with Hades. So this savage Centaur in death has killed me alive, just as the divine will had been foretold. And I will show you how
14. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.383 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

15. Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, 2.37 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

16. New Testament, Luke, 9.62 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

9.62. But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.
17. Iamblichus, Life of Pythagoras, 15 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

15. Conceiving, however, that the first attention which should be paid to men, is that which takes place through the senses; as when some one perceives beautiful figures and forms, or hears beautiful rythms and melodies, he established that to be the first erudition which subsists through music, and also through certain melodies and rythms, from which the remedies of human manners and passions are obtained, together with those harmonies of the powers of the soul which it possessed from the first. He likewise devised medicines calculated to repress and expel the diseases both of bodies and souls. And by Jupiter that which deserves to be mentioned above all these particulars is this, that he arranged and adapted for his disciples what are called apparatus and contrectations, divinely contriving mixtures of certain diatonic, chromatic, and euharmonic melodies, through which he easily transferred and circularly led the passions of the soul into a contrary direction, when they had recently and in an irrational and clandestine manner been formed; such as sorrow, rage, and pity, absurd emulation and fear, all-various desires, angers, and appetites, pride, supineness, and vehemence. For he corrected each of these by the rule of virtue, attempering them through appropriate melodies, as 44through certain salutary medicines. In the evening, likewise, when his disciples were retiring to sleep, he liberated them by these means from diurnal perturbations and tumults, and purified their intellective power from the influxive and effluxive waves of a corporeal nature; rendered their sleep quiet, and their dreams pleasing and prophetic. But when they again rose from their bed, he freed them from nocturnal heaviness, relaxation and torpor, through certain peculiar songs and modulations, produced either by simply striking the lyre, or employing the voice. Pythagoras, however, did not procure for himself a thing of this kind through instruments or the voice, but employing a certain ineffable divinity, and which it is difficult to apprehend, he extended his ears, and fixed his intellect in the sublime symphonies of the world, he alone hearing and understanding, as it appears, the universal harmony and consoce of the spheres, and the stars that are moved through them, and which produce a fuller and more intense melody than any thing effected by mortal sounds.[17] This melody also was the result of 45dissimilar and variously differing sounds, celerities, magnitudes, and intervals, arranged with reference 46to each other in a certain most musical ratio, and thus producing a most gentle, and at the same time variously beautiful motion and convolution. Being therefore irrigated as it were with this melody, having the reason of his intellect well arranged through it, and as I may say, exercised, he determined to exhibit certain images of these things to his disciples as much as possible, especially producing an imitation of them through instruments, and through the mere voice alone. For he conceived that by him alone, of all the inhabitants of the earth, the mundane sounds were understood and heard, and this from a natural fountain itself and root. He therefore thought himself worthy to be 47taught, and to learn something about the celestial orbs, and to be assimilated to them by desire and imitation, as being the only one on the earth adapted to this by the conformation of his body, through the dæmoniacal power that inspired him. But he apprehended that other men ought to be satisfied in looking to him, and the gifts he possessed, and in being benefited and corrected through images and examples, in consequence of their inability to comprehend truly the first and genuine archetypes of things. Just, indeed, as to those who are incapable of looking intently at the sun, through the transcendent splendor of his rays, we contrive to exhibit the eclipses of that luminary, either in the profundity of still water, or through melted pitch, or through some darkly-splendid mirror; sparing the imbecility of their eyes, and devising a method of representing a certain repercussive light, though less intense than its archetype, to those who are delighted with a thing of this kind. Empedocles also appears to have obscurely signified this about Pythagoras, and the illustrious and divinely-gifted conformation of his body above that of other men, when he says:“There was a man among them [i. e. among the Pythagoreans] who was transcendent in knowledge, who possessed the most ample stores of intellectual wealth, and who was in the most eminent degree the adjutor of the works of the wise. For when he extended all the powers of his intellect, he easily 48beheld every thing, as far as to ten or twenty ages of the human race.”For the words transcendent, and he beheld every thing, and the wealth of intellect, and the like, especially exhibit the illustrious nature of the conformation of his mind and body, and its superior accuracy in seeing, and hearing, and in intellectual perception.
18. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.2857 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

19. Heraclitus Lesbius, Fragments, None



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aegisthus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
aeschylus, and dreams Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
agamemnon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412, 477
ajax, chorus Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479, 480; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357, 412, 477
ajax (sophocles), justice and the erinyes in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479, 480
ajax evaluated' "378.0_237.0@ajax's philoi" Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
anthropogony Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
antigone Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 477
anxiety, and dreams Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
aphrodite Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
apollo Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
ares Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
artemis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412, 434
athena Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412, 434
athens Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
audience, theatre Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357, 434
cerberus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
chorus, antigone, in danger and safe Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
chorus, antigone, part of 'the large group'" Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
chorus Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
clytaemestra Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
clytemnestra (sophocles), dream of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
creon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412, 434, 477
dactyls Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
deianeira Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412, 434; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
delphi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
deukalion Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
dionysos Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
dionysus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
diptych tragedies Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 480
dodona (oracle) Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
dreams Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
earth, touching during oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
editions, of ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 480
electra Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
electra (sophocles), dream in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
electra (sophocles), justice and the erinyes in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
empyromancy Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
episodes, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479
erinyes Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124; Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
erinys Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
eros Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
eumenides Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
exodos, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 479, 480
false oaths Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
fear, and dreams Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
furies Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
general dates, of sophocles works Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 480
general nemean ode Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 480
gods, and humans Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
great oath of the gods (megas, horkos) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
groups, and individuals Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
groups, threatened and safe Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
hades Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412, 434
hector Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 477
heracles Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
hermes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
hieroscopy Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
horkos, gods) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
humans, and the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
hyllus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
iliad Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 477
jesus Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
justice Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
justice (dikè), and vengeance Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
kronos Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
laius Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
libation bearers, the (aeschylus), and frightening dreams Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
libation bearers, the (aeschylus), clytemnestras dream in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
looking back' Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
menelaus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 477
murders, and vengeance Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
narrative pace Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
narrative power Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 357
oracles Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
ouranos Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
parental cursing Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
persephone Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
perspective Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 237
polyneices Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
pyrrha/aia Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
pythagoras Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124
revenge curses Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
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, 480
styx, river Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 9
tiresias/teiresias Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412
vengeance, and the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
women of trachis, the (sophocles), justice and the erinyes in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 391
zeus Bremmer, Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East (2008) 124; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 412, 434