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Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 55-56
nan august Poseidon holds it, and in it lives the fire-bearing god, the Titan Prometheus. But as for the spot on which you tread, it is called the bronze threshold of this land, the support of Athens . And the neighboring fields claim Colonus , the horse-rider, for their ancient ruler;
nan august Poseidon holds it, and in it lives the fire-bearing god, the Titan Prometheus. But as for the spot on which you tread, it is called the bronze threshold of this land, the support of Athens . And the neighboring fields claim Colonus , the horse-rider, for their ancient ruler;

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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 74, 73 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 73. With painful passions and bone-shattering stress.
2. Herodotus, Histories, 2.50, 6.137-6.138 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 2.50. In fact, the names of nearly all the gods came to Hellas from Egypt . For I am convinced by inquiry that they have come from foreign parts, and I believe that they came chiefly from Egypt . ,Except the names of Poseidon and the Dioscuri, as I have already said, and Hera, and Hestia, and Themis, and the Graces, and the Nereids, the names of all the gods have always existed in Egypt . I only say what the Egyptians themselves say. The gods whose names they say they do not know were, as I think, named by the Pelasgians, except Poseidon, the knowledge of whom they learned from the Libyans. ,Alone of all nations the Libyans have had among them the name of Poseidon from the beginning, and they have always honored this god. The Egyptians, however, are not accustomed to pay any honors to heroes. 6.137. Miltiades son of Cimon took possession of Lemnos in this way: When the Pelasgians were driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly I cannot say, beyond what is told; namely, that Hecataeus the son of Hegesandrus declares in his history that the act was unjust; ,for when the Athenians saw the land under Hymettus, formerly theirs, which they had given to the Pelasgians as a dwelling-place in reward for the wall that had once been built around the acropolis—when the Athenians saw how well this place was tilled which previously had been bad and worthless, they were envious and coveted the land, and so drove the Pelasgians out on this and no other pretext. But the Athenians themselves say that their reason for expelling the Pelasgians was just. ,The Pelasgians set out from their settlement at the foot of Hymettus and wronged the Athenians in this way: Neither the Athenians nor any other Hellenes had servants yet at that time, and their sons and daughters used to go to the Nine Wells for water; and whenever they came, the Pelasgians maltreated them out of mere arrogance and pride. And this was not enough for them; finally they were caught in the act of planning to attack Athens. ,The Athenians were much better men than the Pelasgians, since when they could have killed them, caught plotting as they were, they would not so do, but ordered them out of the country. The Pelasgians departed and took possession of Lemnos, besides other places. This is the Athenian story; the other is told by Hecataeus. 6.138. These Pelasgians dwelt at that time in Lemnos and desired vengeance on the Athenians. Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian women celebrating the festival of Artemis at Brauron. They seized many of the women, then sailed away with them and brought them to Lemnos to be their concubines. ,These women bore more and more children, and they taught their sons the speech of Attica and Athenian manners. These boys would not mix with the sons of the Pelasgian women; if one of them was beaten by one of the others, they would all run to his aid and help each other; these boys even claimed to rule the others, and were much stronger. ,When the Pelasgians perceived this, they took counsel together; it troubled them much in their deliberations to think what the boys would do when they grew to manhood, if they were resolved to help each other against the sons of the lawful wives and attempted to rule them already. ,Thereupon the Pelasgians resolved to kill the sons of the Attic women; they did this, and then killed the boys' mothers also. From this deed and the earlier one which was done by the women when they killed their own husbands who were Thoas' companions, a “Lemnian crime” has been a proverb in Hellas for any deed of cruelty.
3. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 101-112, 1156-1180, 12, 1254-1396, 3, 38-54, 551-559, 56, 560-569, 57, 570-579, 58, 580-589, 59, 590-599, 60, 600-609, 61, 610-619, 62, 620-629, 63, 630-639, 64, 640-649, 65-84, 847, 85-100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
4. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 1474-1477, 1508-1510, 1473 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
actors	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
athens,hephaestus,cult of	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
cecrops,daughters of	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
characters,of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
charis	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
charites (graces),hephaestus and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
childhood,of sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 6
cithaeron	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
colonus (kolonos hippeios),sophocles in	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 6
corinth	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
creon	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
death	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
deme,of colonus	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 6
doros	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
epimetheus	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
erichthonius	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
general dates,of sophocles life	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 627
hellen (progenitor of hellenes)	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
hephaestus,charites/graces and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
hephaestus,origins and development	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
hephaestus,wives of	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
hephaestus,zeus and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
hephaestus	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
homeland,sophocles deme as	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 6
iapetus	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
incest	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
lemnos,association of hephaestus with	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
mysteries,hephaestus and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
mystery cults,charites and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
oedipus	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151; Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
oedipus at colonus (sophocles),and colonus	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 6
oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
pandora	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
pelasgians	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
plato,academy of,athens	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
prologue,of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
prometheus	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
pyrrha	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
re-enactment	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
setting,of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
space,and oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
sphinx	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
structure,of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 519
thebes	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
theseus	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
weddings and marriages,hephaestus,wives of'	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
wilamowitz-moellendorff,ulrich von	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237
wives	Bierl (2017), Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture, 151
zeus,hephaestus and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 237