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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 300


nanTeiresias, whose soul grasps all things, both that which may be told and that which is unspeakable, the Olympian secrets and the affairs of the earth, you feel, though you cannot see, what a huge plague haunts our state. From which, great prophet, we find you to be our protector and only savior.


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1. Aristophanes, Birds, 988, 987 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν
2. Aristophanes, Clouds, 332 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

332. Θουριομάντεις ἰατροτέχνας σφραγιδονυχαργοκομήτας
3. Euripides, Bacchae, 216-369, 608, 215 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

215. ἔκδημος ὢν μὲν τῆσδʼ ἐτύγχανον χθονός 215. I happened to be at a distance from this land, when I heard of strange evils throughout this city, that the women have left our homes in contrived Bacchic rites, and rush about in the shadowy mountains, honoring with dance
4. Euripides, Hecuba, 841 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

841. ὦ δέσποτ', ὦ μέγιστον ̔́Ελλησιν φάος
5. Euripides, Helen, 927-932, 875 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

875. νεῶν στερηθεὶς τοῦ τε σοῦ μιμήματος. 875. robbed of his ships and of your counterfeit. O unhappy man! What troubles you have escaped to come here; nor do you know whether you are to return home or to stay here. For there will be strife among the gods, and a solemn assembly held by Zeus on your account this very day.
6. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 916, 915 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

915. though useful when they wish; Now if you boldly stretch forth your arm in my behalf, our safety is assured; but if not, we are lost. Chorus Leader
7. Euripides, Medea, 482 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Euripides, Orestes, 384, 1637 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Sophocles, Antigone, 1001-1090, 125, 134-137, 148-154, 631-765, 988, 992-993, 997-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Sophocles, Electra, 1355, 1354 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 238-254, 276, 237 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

12. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 101, 1012-1013, 1016-1019, 102, 1020, 103, 1032, 1036, 104-106, 1068, 107, 110-111, 1129-1131, 1133-1139, 114-115, 1177-1181, 1184-1185, 1223-1296, 139-141, 223, 227-229, 236-243, 273, 284-286, 298-299, 301-304, 307, 310, 312-313, 320-321, 324-403, 405, 408-425, 429-444, 452-453, 455, 47-48, 532-630, 85, 87-88, 95, 953, 96, 964-969, 97, 970-972, 976, 98-100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

13. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 501 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

14. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 538, 552-553, 555-581, 584-587, 623, 630, 537 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

537. and partly to grieve over my sufferings in your company. I have received a maiden—or, I believe, no longer a maiden, but an experienced woman—into my home, just as a mariner takes on cargo, a merchandise to wreck my peace of mind. And now we are two, a pair waiting under
15. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 12.10.3-12.10.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

12.10.3.  And shortly thereafter the city was moved to another site and received another name, its founders being Lampon and Xenocritus; the circumstances of its founding were as follows. The Sybarites who were driven a second time from their native city dispatched ambassadors to Greece, to the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, requesting that they assist their repatriation and take part in the settlement. 12.10.4.  Now the Lacedaemonians paid no attention to them, but the Athenians promised to join in the enterprise, and they manned ten ships and sent them to the Sybarites under the leadership of Lampon and Xenocritus; they further sent word to the several cities of the Peloponnesus, offering a share in the colony to anyone who wished to take part in it.
16. Plutarch, Pericles, 6.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6.2. A story is told that once on a time the head of a one-horned ram was brought to Pericles from his country-place, and that Lampon the seer, when he saw how the horn grew strong and solid from the middle of the forehead, declared that, whereas there were two powerful parties in the city, that of Thucydides and that of Pericles, the mastery would finally devolve upon one man,—the man to whom this sign had been given. Anaxagoras, however, had the skull cut in two, and showed that the brain had not filled out its position, but had drawn together to a point, like an egg, at that particular spot in the entire cavity where the root of the horn began.
17. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 216, 233-238, 418, 509, 699-708, 840-842, 915, 921-924, 934, 949-951, 960-961, 965, 967, 977-978, 212 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



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agōn scene Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
ajax,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
ajax (sophocles),and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
anger,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
antigone Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 139
antigone (sophocles),and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
antigone (sophocles),and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 508
antigone (sophocles),and seneca Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 763
aristophanes Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
charlatans Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
comedy Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
comparisons,with heroes and gods Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 139
creon,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
dialogue,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
dionysos Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
divination Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
episodes,of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 508
general parodos,of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 508
haemon,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
helen Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 139
hercules on oeta (seneca) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 763
hierarchy of means Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hierocles Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
homer Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
information,from the outside,by seneca Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 763
lampon Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
magos Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
medea Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 139
menelaus,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
oedipus,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
oedipus Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231; Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 508; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 139
oedipus the king (sophocles),and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
oedipus the king (sophocles),and seneca Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 763
oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 508
past,the,and oedipus Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 508
pericles Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
philter,from deianira Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 763
plague Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plutarch Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
prophet Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
socrates Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
structure,of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 508
supplication Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 139
teiresias Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
teucer,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
thebes Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
tiresias,and agōn scenes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 285
tragedy Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
women of trachis,the (sophocles),and seneca Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 763
ϲώιζειν,ϲωτήρ' Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 139