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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 412-413


nanFor I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.


nanFor I do not live as your slave, but as Loxias’. I will not stand enrolled as Creon’s client. And I tell you, since you have taunted my blindness, that though you have sight, you do not see what a state of misery you are in, or where you dwell, or with whom.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Homer, Iliad, 1.68-1.69, 1.106, 1.122 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.68. /in hope that he may accept the savour of lambs and unblemished goats, and be willing to ward off the pestilence from us. 1.69. /in hope that he may accept the savour of lambs and unblemished goats, and be willing to ward off the pestilence from us. When he had thus spoken he sat down, and among them arose Calchas son of Thestor, far the best of bird-diviners, who knew the things that were, and that were to be, and that had been before 1.106. / Prophet of evil, never yet have you spoken to me a pleasant thing; ever is evil dear to your heart to prophesy, but a word of good you have never yet spoken, nor brought to pass. And now among the Danaans you claim in prophecy that for this reason the god who strikes from afar brings woes upon them 1.122. /In answer to him spoke swift-footed brilliant Achilles:Most glorious son of Atreus, most covetous of all, how shall the great-hearted Achaeans give you a prize? We know nothing of a hoard of wealth in common store, but whatever we took by pillage from the cities has been apportioned
2. Sophocles, Antigone, 1001-1090, 631-765, 799-800, 988-1000 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Sophocles, Electra, 1064-1065, 1251-1252, 1063 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 1449-1450, 1448 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

5. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 111, 1478-1514, 223, 227-229, 236-243, 273, 284-289, 298-304, 307, 310, 312-313, 316-317, 320-321, 324-403, 405, 408-411, 413-425, 429-444, 448-462, 484, 496-501, 523-524, 527, 676-677, 681-682, 709, 711-713, 786, 87-88, 897-902, 906-910, 946, 953, 964-966, 110 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

6. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 50-53, 106 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Ovid, Tristia, 4.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 6.2.26, 8.3.62 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6.2.26.  The prime essential for stirring the emotions of others is, in my opinion, first to feel those emotions oneself. It is sometimes positively ridiculous to counterfeit grief, anger and indignation, if we content ourselves with accommodating our words and looks and make no attempt to adapt our own feelings to the emotions to be expressed. What other reason is there for the eloquence with which mourners express their grief, or for the fluency which anger lends even to the uneducated, save the fact that their minds are stirred to power by the depth and sincerity of their feelings? 8.3.62.  It is a great gift to be able to set forth the facts on which we are speaking clearly and vividly. For oratory fails of its full effect, and does not assert itself as it should, if its appeal is merely to the hearing, and if the judge merely feels that the facts on which he has to give his decision are being narrated to him, and not displayed in their living truth to the eyes of the mind.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
agōn scene Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
ajax, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
ajax (sophocles), and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
ajax (sophocles), seer in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
anger, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
anger, of oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
antigone (sophocles), a seer in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
antigone (sophocles), and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
antigone (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
antigone (sophocles), anxiety in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
blindness, of oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
blindness Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
bronfen, elisabeth Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
calchas, as the voice of the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
council, nocturnal Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
creon, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
creon, anxiety of Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
darkness Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
daylight Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
delphic oracle, the Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 100
descartes, rené Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
dialogue, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
divination Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
dreams Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
emotions, and tragic reversal Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
episodes, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
general parodos, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
gods, and humans Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
haemon, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
hegel, georg wilhelm friedrich Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
humans, and the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
ignorance, and tragic reversal Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
insight Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
interpreters, of the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
jocasta (epicaste), and tiresias Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
lamp, pollution Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
light and darkness, artificial Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
lucidity, and tragic reversal Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
menelaus, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
oedipus, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
oedipus, and tiresias Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
oedipus, and tragic reversal Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508; Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
oedipus rex as turannos, tiresias Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
oedipus the king (sophocles), and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
oedipus the king (sophocles), seer in Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
oracle, challenges to Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
past, the, and oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
perception Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
phantasia Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
plato Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
poet Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
prodicus Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 162
prophetic language Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
reversal, tragic Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
rhetoric Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
seers, challenges to Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
segal, c. p.' Pucci, Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay (2016) 162
senses Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
sentences, ambiguous or elliptic Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
socrates Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
sophoclean language, ambiguous, elliptic or vague Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, clarity Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, creates trust in something that is there Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean language, evokes situations Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophoclean unlike gorgianic, unpredictable yet clear Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement (1999) 57
sophocles Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
space Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 508
teucer, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
thucydides (politician), on anger Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
tiresias, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
tiresias, and oedipus Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 428
tiresias, challenges to Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
tiresias Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
vision Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 5
zeus Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 100