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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 419


nanDo you know who your parents are? You have been an unwitting enemy to your own kin, both in the Underworld and on the earth above, and the double lash of your mother’s and your father’s curse will one day drive you from this land in dreadful haste, with darkness upon those eyes of yours which now can see.


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, 223, 227-229, 236-243, 273, 284-289, 298-304, 307, 310, 312-313, 316-317, 320-321, 324-403, 405, 408-418, 420-425, 429-444, 448-462, 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)



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
calchas, as the voice of the gods Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 376
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
dialogue, and agōn scenes Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 285
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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