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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



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Sophocles, Ajax, 861


nanof my own Salamis , firm seat of my father’s hearth! O famous Athens , and your race kindred to mine! And you, springs and rivers of this land—and you plains of Troy I salute you also—farewell, you who have nurtured me! This is the last word that Ajax speaks to you.


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

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1. Homer, Iliad, 2.557-2.558, 7.180 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

2.557. /Only Nestor could vie with him, for he was the elder. And with him there followed fifty black ships.And Aias led from Salamis twelve ships, and stationed them where the battalions of the Athenians stood.And they that held Argos and Tiryns, famed for its walls 2.558. /Only Nestor could vie with him, for he was the elder. And with him there followed fifty black ships.And Aias led from Salamis twelve ships, and stationed them where the battalions of the Athenians stood.And they that held Argos and Tiryns, famed for its walls 7.180. /or else on the king himself of Mycene rich in gold. So spake they, and the horseman, Nestor of Gerenia, shook the helmet, and forth therefrom leapt the lot that themselves desired, even the lot of Aias. And the herald bare it everywhither throughout the throng, and showed it from left to right to all the chieftains of the Achaeans;
2. Homer, Odyssey, 3.305-3.307 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Sophocles, Ajax, 1169-1181, 1216-1222, 132-133, 172-182, 201-202, 450-453, 646-692, 694, 719-860, 862-865, 891-893, 924, 1168 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agamemnon, and mycenae Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
ajax, and salamis Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 477; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 415
ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153, 477
ares Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 65
argos, and orestes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
artemis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 65
athena Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 65
athens, and salamis Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
catalog of ships Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
clytemnestra (sophocles), death of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
episodes, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 477
erechtheids Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
gods, and ajax Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 477
hector Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 415
iliad (homer), and the catalog of ships Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
incest Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 155
jocasta Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 155
marriage Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 155
menelaus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 65
mycenae, and orestes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
myths, and sophocles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
oedipus Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 155
olympus' Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 415
palace Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 155
re-enactment Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 155
salamis, mythic image of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 153
setting, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 477
stasima, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 477
structure, of ajax (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 477