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Sophocles, Ajax, 479
nan What joy is there in day following day, now advancing us towards, now drawing us back from the verge of death? I would not buy at any price the man who feels the glow of empty hopes.

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

13 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, Pythian Odes, 4.184-4.185, 8.89-8.93 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 870, 869 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 869. ἀλλ' ὥσπερ αἰκάλλει τι καρδίαν ἐμήν.
5. Euripides, Medea, 1036, 1035 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1035. a boon we mortals covet; but now is my sweet fancy dead and gone; for I must lose you both and in bitterness and sorrow drag through life. And ye shall never with fond eyes see your mother more, for o’er your life there comes a change.
6. 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, 473, 478, 480, 485-524, 534, 542-543, 545-582, 586, 589-595, 646-647, 658-665, 67, 672-673, 677, 679-683, 110 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
7. Sophocles, Antigone, 807-816, 937-943, 806 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
8. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 1001-1043, 1156-1181, 1199, 1249, 1254-1396, 1413-1446, 1514-1515, 1518-1555, 720-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
9. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 83, 82 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
10. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 178 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 178. Hush—no more ill-omened words! I see a man approaching who is crowned with garlands as if for joyous news. Enter the Messenger. Messenger:
11. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 4.17.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 4.17.4. You can now, if you choose, employ your present success to advantage, so as to keep what you have got and gain honor and reputation besides, and you can avoid the mistake of those who meet with an extraordinary piece of good fortune, and are led on by hope to grasp continually at something further, through having already succeeded without expecting it.
12. Aristotle, Poetics, 18 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
13. Bacchylides, Odes, 13.131-13.138

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aegisthus, role of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
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, and women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
ajax, as an epic hero	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
ajax, chorus	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
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
ajax (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 472, 474, 475
ajax and the chorus	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
ajax evaluated	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
anger	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art (2018) 47
antigone, heroism of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
aristotle, on tragedy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
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
bias of priene	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 68
birth, noble	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323, 344
chorus, antigone, in danger and safe	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
chorus, antigone, part of 'the large group'"	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
chorus, the, arrival of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
chorus	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
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
commoi	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
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
deianira, and silence	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
denouement, and complication	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
destiny, of heracles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
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
groups, and individuals	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
groups, threatened and safe	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
happiness/joy	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering (2012) 154
hedone	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art (2018) 47
heroes, epic	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
heroism, of young women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
hope, and eros	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art (2018) 47
hope, bodily mapping of	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art (2018) 47
hope, metaphors for	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art (2018) 47
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
machines, use of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
madness, of ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
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
menelaus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 68
misfortunes, of ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233, 323
nature, of epic heroes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
nature, of women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
nobility, of ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
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
origin, of epic heroes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
pain (mental and physical)	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art (2018) 47
perspective	Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 234
phrenes	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art (2018) 47
platforms, use of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
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
silence, and antigone	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
silence, of deianira	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
silence, of women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
structure, of ajax (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 474, 475
suicide, of ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
suicide, of women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
tecmessa, and ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 323
tecmessa, role of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 233
tragedy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
weeping (and crying)	Kazantzidis and Spatharas, Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering (2012) 154
women, silence of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
women, young	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344
women of trachis, the (sophocles), and women	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 344