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Sophocles, Ajax, 473


nanThat must not happen. Some enterprise must be sought whereby I may prove to my aged father that in nature, at least, his son is not gutless. It is a stain upon a man to crave the full term of life, when he finds no variation from his ignominious troubles.


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

5 results
1. Homer, Iliad, 6 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

2. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 973 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

973. ἴδεσθε χώρας τὴν διπλῆν τυραννίδα 973. Behold this pair, oppressors of the land, who murdered my father and ransacked my house! They were majestic then, when they sat on their thrones
3. Pindar, Nemean Odes, 7.26, 8.25 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Sophocles, Ajax, 118-133, 137-140, 148, 151-152, 158-186, 188, 196, 198-199, 201-202, 220, 243-256, 278-280, 298-299, 301, 311-327, 349-350, 364-367, 372-376, 379-383, 387-391, 394-395, 401-402, 412-413, 434-440, 443, 450-466, 479-480, 485-524, 534, 542-543, 545-582, 586, 589-595, 67, 110 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Livy, History, 8.9.4-8.9.9 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
achilles Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
aegisthus, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
aeson Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
aetheopis Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
agamemnon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61, 68
ajax, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472, 474, 475; Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472, 474, 475
aristotle, on tragedy Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
arria Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
arrival, of creon Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
arrival, of the chorus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
athena Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
bias of priene Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 68
body, mutilation of Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
caesar, c. julius Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
cato, the younger Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
chorus, the, arrival of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
chrestomathy (proclus), and ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
clytemnestra (sophocles), corpse of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
commoi, examples of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 720
complication, and denouement Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
corpses, and the eccyclema Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
creon, arrival of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
dactylic hexameter Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 720
denouement, and complication Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
devotio Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
dishonor' Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
eccyclema Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233, 475
epirrhemata Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 720
episodes, length of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
episodes, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 474, 475
episodes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
eurysaces Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 68
farewells, in ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
friends and enemies (theme) Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 68
general parodos, and the choruss arrival Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
general parodos, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 474
happiness/joy Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering (2012) 154
iliad (homer), and ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
insanity/mental disorders, mania Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering (2012) 153
knox, b.m.w. Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61
laughter Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering (2012) 153, 154
little iliad, and ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
livy Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
lucretia Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
machines, use of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
mechane/mechanè Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 474
menelaus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 61, 68
misfortunes, of ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
nearchus Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
nero Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
odysseus Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
odyssey (homer), and ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
orestes, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
pindar Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
platforms, use of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
porcia Moss, Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions (2012) 36
proclus, and ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
prologue, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 474
pylades, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
sequence, mythic, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
setting, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472
structure, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 474, 475
suicide Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
tacitus, senecas death Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
tacitus Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
tecmessa, role of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
thrasea paetus, suicide Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
tiberius Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
tragedy Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
virgil and the aeneid, suicide Agri, Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (2022) 30
weeping (and crying) Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering (2012) 154