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Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 964

nan	Shameless arrogance, where do you think this outrage falls—on my old age, or on your own? Bloodshed, incest, misery—all this your tongue has launched against me, and all this I have borne in my wretchedness by no choice of mine.

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1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 585 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

585. πολλαὶ μέν ἐσμεν, λέξομεν δὲ συντόμως.

2. Euripides, Orestes, 76, 75 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

75. προσφθέγμασιν γὰρ οὐ μιαίνομαι σέθεν

75. For referring the sin as I do to Phoebus, I incur no pollution by addressing you; and yet I am truly sorry for the death of my sister Clytemnestra, whom I never saw after I was driven by heaven-sent frenzy to sail as I did to Ilium ;

3. Euripides, Phoenician Women, 1104-1140, 1175, 1099 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1099. λεύκασπιν εἰσορῶμεν ̓Αργείων στρατὸν

1099. and stationed cavalry to cover cavalry, and infantry to support infantry, so that assistance might be close at hand for any weak point in the walls. Then from our lofty towers we saw the Argive army with their white shields leaving

4. Sophocles, Ajax, 245-256, 298-299, 349-350, 364-367, 387-391, 412-413, 443, 457-466, 479-480, 492-493, 522, 542-543, 560-573, 594-595, 646-647, 658-665, 672-673, 677, 679-683, 201 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

201. Mates of the ship of Ajax, offspring of the race that springs from the Erechtheids, the soil’s sons, cries of grief are the portion of us who care from afar for the house of Telamon.

5. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 1000-1043, 1049-1051, 1095, 1156-1181, 1199, 1249, 1254-1396, 1413-1446, 1514-1515, 1518-1555, 2, 510-511, 521-548, 551-651, 654, 668-699, 7, 700-799, 8, 800-869, 87, 870-879, 88, 880-889, 89, 890-899, 90, 900-963, 965-999, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1. Child of a blind old man, Antigone, to what region have we come, or to what city of men? Who will entertain the wandering Oedipus today with scanty gifts?

6. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 83, 82 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

82. He seems to bring comfort, since otherwise he would not be coming crowned so thickly with berry-laden bay. Oedipu

7. 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:

8. Aristotle, Poetics, 18 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

9. Statius, Thebais, 10.674-10.675, 10.683-10.685, 10.688, 10.699-10.719, 10.721, 10.736-10.737, 10.756-10.797, 10.801, 10.806-10.813, 10.817-10.818, 11.707, 11.724 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

10.718. So spake he, with his arms in close embrace about his son's neck, but the youth, once vowed to the gods, was moved by neither tears nor words; nay, at their prompting he met his sire with secret fraud and turned his fears: "Good father, thou art mistaken, thy fears are vain. No warning or speech of frenzied seers disturbs me, or troubles me with empty terrors; let crafty Tiresias keep his chantings for himself and his own daughter; nought should I care, if Apollo himself were to open his shrine and confront me with his ravings. No, 'tis the sore hurt of my loved brother that takes me back of my own will to the city; my Haemon groans from the wound of an Inachian spear; scarce out of the dust of battle, from between the lines — the Argives had already seized him — but I waste time; go, cheer his distress, and tell his bearers to spare him and carry him gently; I go to find Aetion who is skilled to join up wounds and recall the life-blood's ebbing stream." He breaks off and speeds away in the other's breast confusion reigns and a dark cloud of woe; he wavers uncertainly between devoted love and harsh, discordant fears; but Fate impels him to believe. 10.756. But the devoted Menoeceus stood on a chosen part of the wall, sacred already to behold, and majestic in mien beyond his wont, as though suddenly descended to earth from heaven above, bareheaded and manifest to view; he gazed down upon the lines of warriors, and stilled the clamours of the field and bade the war be silent. "Ye gods of battle, and thou, O Phoebus, who grantest me a death so glorious, vouchsafe to Thebes the joys which I have coveted for and bought with all my lavish lifeblood. Roll back the tide of war, and hurl against captive Lerna her base remts; let father Inachus turn away from his dishonoured sons as they nurse the spear-wound in their backs. But restore to the Tyrians by my death their temples, fields and homes, children and wives; if I, your chosen victim, have pleased you, if I heard the prophet's oracle with no panic-stricken ear, and took it to my heart ere ever Thebes believed it, reward Amphion's town in my stead, and reconcile, I pray, the sire whom I deceived." So he speaks, and with his glittering blade tears at the noble soul that long has disdained its body and grieved to be held fast, and probes for the life and rends it with one wound. Then with his blood he sprinkled the towers and purified the walls, and grasping still his sword hurled himself into the midst of the lines and strove to fall upon the fierce Achaeans. But Piety and Virtue clasped and bore his body lightly to the earth; for his spirit long since is at the throne of Jove, and demands for itself a crown 'mid the highest stars. 10.783. And now rejoicing they bear the hero within the walls, recovering his body with no labour: of its own accord the Tantalid host in reverence withdrew; he is borne on the necks of youths in a long train, and is acclaimed by the glad praise of all the populace as patron of the town above Cadmus and Amphion; with garlands and all the honour of the spring they heap his lifeless limbs, and lay his venerated body in his forefathers' tomb. Then when their lauds are finished they resume the fight, and his sire, his wrath appeased, sheds tears and joins in the lament, and his mother can weep her fill at last: "Was it then to make atonement and devote thy life for cruel Thebes that I nourished thee, illustrious boy, as though I were some worthless mother? What crime then had I wrought, what god so hated me? No incestuous offspring have I borne in unnatural intercourse, nor given unhallowed progeny to my own son. What matters that? Jocasta hath her sons, and sees them leaders and kings: but we must make cruel expiation for the war, that the brothers, sons of Oedipus, may exchange their diadems — doth this please thee, O author of the blow? But why complain I of men and gods? Thou, cruel Menoeceus, thou before all didst haste to slay thy unhappy mother! Whence came this love of death? What cursed madness seized thy mind? What did I conceive, what misbegotten child did I bear, so different from myself? Verily 'tis the snake of Mars, and the ground that burgeoned fresh with our armed sires — thence comes that desperate valour, that overmastering love of war: nought comes of his mother. Lo! of thine own will and pleasure slain, ay, even against the will of Fate, thou forcest an entrance to the gloomy shades. I was fearing the Danaan and the shafts of Capaneus: 'twas this hand, this hand of thine I should have feared, and the sword I myself once gave thee in my folly. See how the glade is wholly buried in his throat! None of the Danaan could have made a deeper thurst.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aeschylus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153
akon	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
amphiaraus (prophet)	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
antigone, and oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
antigone	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203
antigone (sophocles), creon in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
apollo	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 172; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
areopagus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 171
aristotle, on tragedy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
aristotle aristotle	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 172
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
athens, soldiers of	Naiden,Ancient Suppliation (2006)" 94
athens	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 164; Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
audience, theatre	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
audience	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164
bad (κακός)	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 171
characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
chorus, the, arrival of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
cleon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164
colonus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203
complication, and denouement	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
conacher, d.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153
creon, and oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
creon, arrival of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
creon, as a repeating character	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
creon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164, 171, 172; Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
criminal, oedipus as	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
deception	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
defence	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164
delium, apollo of	Naiden,Ancient Suppliation (2006)" 94
demosthenes	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 164
denouement, and complication	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
deuotio	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 205
dionysus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
discourse	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153
discovery, and tragic reversal	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
drama	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 172
duchemin, j.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 171
emotions	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 171
episodes, length of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
episodes, of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522, 523
episodes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
epode	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 170
eteocles	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
eumenides	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
euripides	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
fear, and oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
general parodos, and the choruss arrival	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715
goldhill, s.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164
greek tragedy	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 171
halliwell, s.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 164, 171
ismene	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203
justice	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
justification, of oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452, 760
leodes	Naiden,Ancient Suppliation (2006)" 94
menoeceus	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 205
messenger, tragic	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
murder	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 172
naples, bilingualism in	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
nature, of creon	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
nature, of oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
nobility, of oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
oedipus, and tragic discovery	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
oedipus, as a repeating character	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
oedipus, development of	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
oedipus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 164, 171, 172; Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205; Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522, 523; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271; Naiden,Ancient Suppliation (2006)" 94
oedipus at colonus (sophocles), and discovery	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
oedipus at colonus (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
oedipus at colonus (sophocles), creon in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
oedipus at colonus (sophocles), oedipus in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522, 523
oedipus the king (sophocles), and oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
oedipus the king (sophocles), creon in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
oedipus the king (sophocles), oedipus in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
oracles	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
oratory	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164, 172
parakatalogē	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153
past	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 172
performance	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153
phemius	Naiden,Ancient Suppliation (2006)" 94
poetry, tragic	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 760
poetry	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153
polynices	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
repetition, of characters	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 358
reversal, tragic	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
rhetoric	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 171
sanctuary, of the eumenides	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 452
sansone, d.	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164, 172
seven against thebes	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 271
slander	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 171
solon	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164
sophocles	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153, 171
spectators	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164
stasima, of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522, 523
statius, and euripides	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 205
statius, and greek tragedy	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
statius, and sophocles	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
statius, father of	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
structure, of oedipus at colonus (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 522, 523
thebes	Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
theseus	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164; Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 203, 204, 205
thucydides	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164
tlepolemus	Naiden,Ancient Suppliation (2006)" 94
topos	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 171
tragedy'	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 153
tragedy	Poet and Orator: A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (2019)" 164, 171; Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 715