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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 170-179


nanA plague is on all our people, and thought can find no weapon for defense. The fruits of the glorious earth do not grow; by no birth of offspring do women surmount the pangs in which they shriek.


nanA plague is on all our people, and thought can find no weapon for defense. The fruits of the glorious earth do not grow; by no birth of offspring do women surmount the pangs in which they shriek.


nanA plague is on all our people, and thought can find no weapon for defense. The fruits of the glorious earth do not grow; by no birth of offspring do women surmount the pangs in which they shriek.


nanA plague is on all our people, and thought can find no weapon for defense. The fruits of the glorious earth do not grow; by no birth of offspring do women surmount the pangs in which they shriek.


nanA plague is on all our people, and thought can find no weapon for defense. The fruits of the glorious earth do not grow; by no birth of offspring do women surmount the pangs in which they shriek.


nanYou can see life after life speed away, like a bird on the wing, swifter than irresistible fire, to the shore of the western god. Choru


nanYou can see life after life speed away, like a bird on the wing, swifter than irresistible fire, to the shore of the western god. Choru


nanYou can see life after life speed away, like a bird on the wing, swifter than irresistible fire, to the shore of the western god. Choru


nanYou can see life after life speed away, like a bird on the wing, swifter than irresistible fire, to the shore of the western god. Choru


nanWith such deaths, past numbering, the city perishes.


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11 results
1. Sophocles, Ajax, 173-178, 172 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

2. Sophocles, Antigone, 1115-1152, 174, 213-214, 449, 487, 59, 658-659, 847, 955-965, 988, 1015 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Sophocles, Electra, 1240-1242, 1376-1383, 276, 566, 569-570, 626, 637, 644-645, 657-659, 1239 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 785, 407 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 100-107, 11, 110-111, 114-115, 1193-1195, 12, 1207-1210, 1213, 1223-1296, 13, 139, 14, 140-147, 1473, 148-149, 15, 150-159, 16, 160-169, 17, 171-179, 18, 180-189, 19, 190-199, 2, 20, 200-209, 21, 210-215, 22-28, 285-286, 288-289, 29, 3, 30, 303-304, 31-37, 378-379, 38, 380-389, 39, 390-399, 4, 40, 400-403, 41-42, 435-437, 444, 46, 463-469, 47, 470-479, 48, 480-499, 5, 500-509, 51, 510-519, 52, 520-530, 55-64, 66-69, 7, 70-72, 8, 85, 863-869, 87, 870-879, 88, 880-909, 91, 910-919, 92, 920-923, 928, 95-99, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 470-489, 494-496, 930-932, 1182 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 208-215, 207 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

207. Let the brides of tomorrow raise a joyous cry for the house with shouts of triumph at the hearth. Among them let the yell of the men go up in unison for Apollo of the bright quiver, our defender! And at the same time
8. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.47.3-2.47.54, 2.48.3, 2.50, 2.51.4-2.51.5, 2.52.2-2.52.4, 3.87 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2.47.3. Not many days after their arrival in Attica the plague first began to show itself among the Athenians. It was said that it had broken out in many places previously in the neighborhood of Lemnos and elsewhere; but a pestilence of such extent and mortality was nowhere remembered. 2.47.4. Neither were the physicians at first of any service, ignorant as they were of the proper way to treat it, but they died themselves the most thickly, as they visited the sick most often; nor did any human art succeed any better. Supplications in the temples, divinations, and so forth were found equally futile, till the overwhelming nature of the disaster at last put a stop to them altogether. 2.48.3. All speculation as to its origin and its causes, if causes can be found adequate to produce so great a disturbance, I leave to other writers, whether lay or professional; for myself, I shall simply set down its nature, and explain the symptoms by which perhaps it may be recognized by the student, if it should ever break out again. This I can the better do, as I had the disease myself, and watched its operation in the case of others. 2.51.4. By far the most terrible feature in the malady was the dejection which ensued when anyone felt himself sickening, for the despair into which they instantly fell took away their power of resistance, and left them a much easier prey to the disorder; besides which, there was the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep, through having caught the infection in nursing each other. This caused the greatest mortality. 2.51.5. On the one hand, if they were afraid to visit each other, they perished from neglect; indeed many houses were emptied of their inmates for want of a nurse: on the other, if they ventured to do so, death was the consequence. This was especially the case with such as made any pretensions to goodness: honor made them unsparing of themselves in their attendance in their friends' houses, where even the members of the family were at last worn out by the moans of the dying, and succumbed to the force of the disaster. 2.52.2. As there were no houses to receive them, they had to be lodged at the hot season of the year in stifling cabins, where the mortality raged without restraint. The bodies of dying men lay one upon another, and half-dead creatures reeled about the streets and gathered round all the fountains in their longing for water. 2.52.3. The sacred places also in which they had quartered themselves were full of corpses of persons that had died there, just as they were; for as the disaster passed all bounds, men, not knowing what was to become of them, became utterly careless of everything, whether sacred or profane. 2.52.4. All the burial rites before in use were entirely upset, and they buried the bodies as best they could. Many from want of the proper appliances, through so many of their friends having died already, had recourse to the most shameless sepultures: sometimes getting the start of those who had raised a pile, they threw their own dead body upon the stranger's pyre and ignited it; sometimes they tossed the corpse which they were carrying on the top of another that was burning, and so went off.
9. Xenophon, Memoirs, 4.4.19 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4.4.19. Do you know what is meant by unwritten laws, Hippias? Yes, those that are uniformly observed in every country. Could you say that men made them? Nay, how could that be, seeing that they cannot all meet together and do not speak the same language? Then by whom have these laws been made, do you suppose? I think that the gods made these laws for men. For among all men the first law is to fear the gods.
10. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.13 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

11. Suetonius, Iulius, 44 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
actors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
ajax Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 441
antigone (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507
antigone (sophocles), the plague in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 31
apollo Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98, 441
artemis Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 441
athena Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98, 441
athens, plague in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29, 30, 31
audience, theatre Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
authors Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 762
characters, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
council, royal Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
creon, and law Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
creon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
delphi Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
eurydice Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 441
general parodos, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
gods, and the athenian plague Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29
gods, named and unnamed Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 142
hero-cult Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
hymn, sophocles use of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
laius Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
law, of creon Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
names, gods named and unnamed Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 142
neoptolemus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
odysseus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
oedipus, and pericles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 31
oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
oedipus (seneca), and sophocles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 762
oedipus the king (sophocles), and the athenian plague Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29, 30, 31
oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507
paian/paean Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
pericles, and the plague Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 31
philoctetes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 422
piraeus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29
plague, in athens Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29, 30, 31
politician, sophocles as Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29, 30, 31
prologue, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
seneca, and sophocles Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 762
setting, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
space, and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 506, 507
thebes, and oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
thucydides (politician), and the athenian plague Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29, 30, 31
tiresias/teiresias Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98
treason, and burial Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
tyrant, vs. king Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 749
zeus' Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 98