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Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 621-623

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catter with the spear today’s pledges of concord. Then one day my slumbering and buried corpse, cold in death, will drink their warm blood, if Zeus is still Zeus, and Phoebus, the son of Zeus, speaks clear. But, since I would not break silence concerning words that must not spoken, allow me to cease where I began.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 3.8 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

3.8. וַיִּשְׁמְעוּ אֶת־קוֹל יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים מִתְהַלֵּךְ בַּגָּן לְרוּחַ הַיּוֹם וַיִּתְחַבֵּא הָאָדָם וְאִשְׁתּוֹ מִפְּנֵי יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים בְּתוֹךְ עֵץ הַגָּן׃

3.8. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden."

2. Hesiod, Works And Days, 170-173, 138 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

138. Just playing inside for a hundred years.

3. Hesiod, Theogony, 951-955, 950 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

950. Sailors and ships as fearfully they blow

4. Homer, Iliad, 9.412-9.414 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

9.412. /For my mother the goddess, silver-footed Thetis, telleth me that twofold fates are bearing me toward the doom of death: if I abide here and war about the city of the Trojans, then lost is my home-return, but my renown shall be imperishable; but if I return home to my dear native land 9.413. /For my mother the goddess, silver-footed Thetis, telleth me that twofold fates are bearing me toward the doom of death: if I abide here and war about the city of the Trojans, then lost is my home-return, but my renown shall be imperishable; but if I return home to my dear native land 9.414. /For my mother the goddess, silver-footed Thetis, telleth me that twofold fates are bearing me toward the doom of death: if I abide here and war about the city of the Trojans, then lost is my home-return, but my renown shall be imperishable; but if I return home to my dear native land

5. Homer, Odyssey, 11.97-11.99 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

6. Euripides, Electra, 537, 536 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

536. δυοῖν ἀδελφοῖν ποὺς ἂν οὐ γένοιτ' ἴσος

7. Euripides, Hecuba, 537, 536 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

536. νεκρῶν ἀγωγούς: ἐλθὲ δ', ὡς πίῃς μέλαν

8. Euripides, Rhesus, 763-769, 792-793, 762 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

762. When Hector’s hand had showed us where to rest

9. Sophocles, Ajax, 1390-1391, 492-493, 1389 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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

11. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 1000-1009, 101, 1010-1019, 102, 1020-1029, 103, 1030-1039, 104, 1040-1043, 105-108, 1086, 109-110, 1145, 1156-1180, 1254-1396, 1428, 1460, 1466-1471, 1514-1515, 1518-1555, 38-48, 487, 49-51, 510-511, 52, 521-529, 53, 530-539, 54, 540-548, 55, 551-559, 56, 560-569, 57, 570-579, 58, 580-589, 59, 590-599, 60, 600-609, 61, 610-619, 62, 620, 622-629, 63, 630-639, 64, 640-649, 65, 650-651, 654, 657-659, 66, 660-669, 67, 670-679, 68, 680-689, 69, 690-699, 70, 700-709, 71, 710-719, 72, 720-729, 73, 730-739, 74, 740-749, 75, 750-759, 76, 760-769, 77, 770-779, 78, 780-789, 79, 790-799, 80, 800-809, 81, 810-819, 82, 820-829, 83, 830-839, 84, 840-849, 85, 850-859, 86, 860-869, 87, 870-879, 88, 880-889, 89, 890-899, 90, 900-909, 91, 910-919, 92, 920-929, 93, 930-939, 94, 940-949, 95, 950-959, 96, 960-969, 97, 970-979, 98, 980-989, 99, 990-999, 100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

12. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 1474-1477, 1508-1510, 202, 903-904, 1473 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

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

14. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 128, 303-305, 500-502, 127 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

127. You must not, I say, wear away fair hope. Remember that the all-accomplishing king, the son of Cronus, does not appoint a painless lot for mortals. Sorrow and joy revolve to all, as the stars of the Bear

15. Callimachus, Aetia, 43 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

16. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.637-6.678 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6.637. A feeble shout, or vainly opened wide 6.639. Here Priam's son, with body rent and torn 6.640. Deiphobus Deïphobus is seen,—his mangled face 6.641. His face and bloody hands, his wounded head 6.642. of ears and nostrils infamously shorn. 6.643. Scarce could Aeneas know the shuddering shade 6.644. That strove to hide its face and shameful scar; 6.645. But, speaking first, he said, in their own tongue: 6.646. “Deiphobus, strong warrior, nobly born 6.647. of Teucer's royal stem, what ruthless foe 6.648. Could wish to wreak on thee this dire revenge? 6.649. Who ventured, unopposed, so vast a wrong? 6.650. The rumor reached me how, that deadly night 6.651. Wearied with slaying Greeks, thyself didst fall 6.652. Prone on a mingled heap of friends and foes. 6.653. Then my own hands did for thy honor build 6.654. An empty tomb upon the Trojan shore 6.655. And thrice with echoing voice I called thy shade. 6.656. Thy name and arms are there. But, 0 my friend 6.657. Thee could I nowhere find, but launched away 6.658. Nor o'er thy bones their native earth could fling.” 6.659. To him the son of Priam thus replied: 6.660. “Nay, friend, no hallowed rite was left undone 6.661. But every debt to death and pity due 6.662. The shades of thy Deiphobus received. 6.663. My fate it was, and Helen's murderous wrong 6.664. Wrought me this woe; of her these tokens tell. 6.665. For how that last night in false hope we passed 6.666. Thou knowest,—ah, too well we both recall! 6.667. When up the steep of Troy the fateful horse 6.668. Came climbing, pregt with fierce men-at-arms 6.669. 't was she, accurst, who led the Phrygian dames 6.670. In choric dance and false bacchantic song 6.671. And, waving from the midst a lofty brand 6.672. Signalled the Greeks from Ilium 's central tower 6.673. In that same hour on my sad couch I lay 6.674. Exhausted by long care and sunk in sleep 6.675. That sweet, deep sleep, so close to tranquil death. 6.676. But my illustrious bride from all the house 6.677. Had stolen all arms; from 'neath my pillowed head 6.678. She stealthily bore off my trusty sword;

17. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 1.55 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

1.55. whence it was that Cain was very angry that Abel was preferred by God before him; and he slew his brother, and hid his dead body, thinking to escape discovery. But God, knowing what had been done, came to Cain, and asked him what was become of his brother, because he had not seen him of many days; whereas he used to observe them conversing together at other times.

18. Plutarch, Aristides, 21.1-21.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

19. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.11.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

10.11.6. The Athenians also built a portico out of the spoils they took in their war against the Peloponnesians and their Greek allies. There are also dedicated the figure-heads of ships and bronze shields. The inscription on them enumerates the cities from which the Athenians sent the first-fruits: Elis, Lacedaemon, Sicyon, Megara, Pellene in Achaia, Ambracia, Leucas, and Corinth itself. It also says that from the spoils taken in these sea-battles a sacrifice was offered to Theseus and to Poseidon at the cape called Rhium. It seems to me that the inscription refers to Phormio, son of Asopichus, and to his achievements. 429 B.C

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abel	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
achilles, cult at troy	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
achilles	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
animal species, mare	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
antigone	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 169, 435
antigone (antigone)	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 101, 102
apollo	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 435
apotropaic rituals	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
arginusae, battle, vow before	Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 402
artemis	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434, 435
athena	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 169, 434
athens	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
audience, theatre	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 169, 434
battle-line or pre-battle sacrifices	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
blind oaths, heracles and hyllus	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 102
blood, and war	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
blood, drunk	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
blood, use in the cult of the dead	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
blood, used as an invitation	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
blood rituals	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261, 267
body, abel, of	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
body	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
burial, abel, of	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
burial mound	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
cain, desire of	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
cain	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
calling of recipient at sacrificial ritual	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
cithaeron	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151
corinth	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151
creon	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 169, 434
croesus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
cult, for heroes	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
daughters	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
dead, cult ofthe dead	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
death, abel, of	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
death	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151; Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 183
deianeira	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
disorder	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 183
dust	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
echetlos	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
elysian fields	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
enemy	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261, 267
episodes, of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522
erinyes	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 101
erinys	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
eumenides	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
euripides	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 183
fame	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
friends	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 102
games	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
god, authoritative one, as	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
hades	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434, 435
handclasping (dexiōsis), signifying friendship	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 102
harmodius	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
hector	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 183
hekate	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261, 267
heracles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 435; Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
hyakinthids	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
hyllus, oath with	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 102
hyllus, oath with heracles	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 102
hyperboreans	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
iconographical representations of sacrifice	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261, 267
immortality, in cult	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
immortality, in song	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
incense	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
incest	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151
invitation of recipient at sacrificial ritual	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
isles of the blesses	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
ismene	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 169, 435; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 101
kychreus	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
leukaspis	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
leukothea, leuktra, battle at	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
lyceum	Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 402
marathon, hero	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
messenger, tragic	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 435
moon	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
oedipus	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151; Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522
oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522
oidipous	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261, 267
olympus	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
oracle	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
oracles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434
patroklos	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
pelopidas	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
pindar	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
plutarch and sacrificial ritual	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
polyneices	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 169, 434, 435; Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 101
poseidon	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 169
re-enactment	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151
rhesus	Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 183
salamis	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
situation or occasion decisive of choice of ritual	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
skedasos	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
solon	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
sphinx	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151
stasima, of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522
structure, of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522
sun	Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 980
teiresias	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
thebes	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151; Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
theseus, oaths sworn by	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 101, 102
theseus	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 435
thetis	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5
tragedy as source of sacrificial rituals	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
underworld, divinities of the underworld	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
underworld	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
virgiri	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
war, and hero-cult'	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
war dead, sacrifices to the war dead	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 267
war dead	Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 261
warfare, and religion	Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 402
wives	Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 151
zeus, oaths invoking, head of zeus	Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 102
zeus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 434, 435
κλέοϲ ἄφθιτον	Meister, Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity (2019) 5