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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 24-29
nan with wreathed branches in the market-place, and before the shrines of Pallas, and where Ismenus gives answer by fire. For the city, as you yourself see, is now sorely vexed, and can no longer lift her head from beneath the angry waves of death.
nan A blight has fallen on the fruitful blossoms of the land, the herds among the pastures, the barren pangs of women. And the flaming god, the malign plague, has swooped upon us, and ravages the town: he lays waste to the house of Cadmus, but enriches Hades with
nan A blight has fallen on the fruitful blossoms of the land, the herds among the pastures, the barren pangs of women. And the flaming god, the malign plague, has swooped upon us, and ravages the town: he lays waste to the house of Cadmus, but enriches Hades with
nan A blight has fallen on the fruitful blossoms of the land, the herds among the pastures, the barren pangs of women. And the flaming god, the malign plague, has swooped upon us, and ravages the town: he lays waste to the house of Cadmus, but enriches Hades with
nan A blight has fallen on the fruitful blossoms of the land, the herds among the pastures, the barren pangs of women. And the flaming god, the malign plague, has swooped upon us, and ravages the town: he lays waste to the house of Cadmus, but enriches Hades with
nan A blight has fallen on the fruitful blossoms of the land, the herds among the pastures, the barren pangs of women. And the flaming god, the malign plague, has swooped upon us, and ravages the town: he lays waste to the house of Cadmus, but enriches Hades with

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1. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 100-107, 11, 110-111, 114-115, 12-13, 139, 14, 140-146, 15, 151-159, 16, 160-169, 17, 170-179, 18, 180-189, 19, 190-199, 2, 20, 200-209, 21, 210-215, 22-23, 25-29, 3, 30-39, 4, 40-42, 46-48, 5, 51-52, 55-64, 66-69, 7, 70-72, 8, 85, 87-88, 91-92, 95-99, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
2. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 2.47.3-2.47.54, 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.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
advocate	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
antigone (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
athens, plague in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29
cadmus	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57
claudius, roman emperor, expulsion of jews from rome by	Feldman, Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered (2006) 437
collective responsibility	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
delphi, as place of knowledge	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52
dionysus, disease, symptoms of	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 53
euthyna	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
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
hippocratic medicine, as diagnostic system	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 53
hippocratic medicine, medical language/imagery in s. ot	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52, 53
immigrant/immigration	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
lakedaimonios sister	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
loimos	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57
manumission	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
miasma	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
oedipus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
oedipus the king (sophocles), and the athenian plague	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29
oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
oikos	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
oracle, delphi, announcing pollution	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52
oracle, delphi, as place of knowledge	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52
orthos	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 53
paramone	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
personal responsibility (law)	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
pestilence	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57
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
plague, of thebes	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52, 53
politician, sophocles as	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29
pollution, as system of explanation	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52, 53
prologue, of oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
race	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
religion	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
representative/representation (legal)	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
scrutiny	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
slave/slavery	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
sophocles, works, oedipus rex	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57
sterility	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
synegoria/synegoros	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
thebes	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57
thucydides (politician), and the athenian plague	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 29
tragedy, and medicine'	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57
understanding of misfortune, through words, characters struggling for	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52
understanding of misfortune, through words, provided by concept of pollution	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52, 53
word play	Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 52
xenias graphe	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 151
zeus	Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 57