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Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 98-100


nanOIDIPUS:Speak before all; the burden that I bear Is more for these my subjects than myself. CREON: Let me report then all the god declared. King Phoebus bids us straitly extirpate A fell pollution that infests the land, And no more harbor an inveterate sore. OIDIPUS:What expiation means he? What's amiss? CREON: Banishment, or the shedding blood for blood. This stain of blood makes shipwreck of our state. OIDIPUS:Whom can he mean, the miscreant thus denounced? CREON: Before thou didst assume the helm of State, The sovereign of this land was Laius. OIDIPUS:I heard as much, but never saw the man. CREON: He fell; and now the god's command is plain: Punish his takers-off, whoe'er they be. OIDIPUS:Where are they? Where in the wide world to find The far, faint traces of a bygone crime? CREON: In this land, said the god; "who seeks shall find; Who sits with folded hands or sleeps is blind." OIDIPUS:Was he within his palace, or afield


nanBy banishing the man, or by paying back bloodshed with bloodshed, since it is this blood which brings the tempest on our city. Oedipu


nanI will tell you what I heard from the god. Phoebus our lord clearly commands us to drive out the defilement which he said was harbored in this land, and not to nourish it so that it cannot be healed. Oedipu


nanWith what sort of purification? What is the manner of the misfortune? Creon


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1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 255, 238 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

238. Woe to the wicked men who ousted her.
2. Homer, Iliad, 1.50-1.52 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.50. /but then on the men themselves he let fly his stinging shafts, and struck; and constantly the pyres of the dead burned thick.For nine days the missiles of the god ranged among the host, but on the tenth Achilles called the people to assembly, for the goddess, white-armed Hera, had put it in his heart 1.51. /but then on the men themselves he let fly his stinging shafts, and struck; and constantly the pyres of the dead burned thick.For nine days the missiles of the god ranged among the host, but on the tenth Achilles called the people to assembly, for the goddess, white-armed Hera, had put it in his heart 1.52. /but then on the men themselves he let fly his stinging shafts, and struck; and constantly the pyres of the dead burned thick.For nine days the missiles of the god ranged among the host, but on the tenth Achilles called the people to assembly, for the goddess, white-armed Hera, had put it in his heart
3. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 480 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

480. τοιαῦτα μὲν τάδʼ ἐστίν· ἀμφότερα, μένειν 480. So stands the case: either course—to let them stay, to drive them out—brings disaster and perplexity to me. But since this matter has fallen here, I will select judges of homicide bound by oath, and I will establish this tribunal for all time.
4. Euripides, Electra, 318 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

318. πόρπαισιν. αἷμα δ' ἔτι πατρὸς κατὰ στέγας
5. Euripides, Orestes, 395 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

395. What ails you? what is your deadly sickness? Oreste
6. Herodotus, Histories, 7.171 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7.171. In relating the matter of the Rhegians and Tarentines, however, I digress from the main thread of my history. The Praesians say that when Crete was left desolate, it was populated especially by Greeks, among other peoples. Then, in the third generation after Minos, the events surrounding the Trojan War, in which the Cretans bore themselves as bravely as any in the cause of Menelaus, took place. ,After this, when they returned from Troy, they and their flocks and herds were afflicted by famine and pestilence, until Crete was once more left desolate. Then came a third influx of Cretans, and it is they who, with those that were left, now dwell there. It was this that the priestess bade them remember, and so prevented them from aiding the Greeks as they were previously inclined.
7. Sophocles, Antigone, 116-134, 1348-1349, 135, 1350-1353, 136-154, 115 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 101, 1012-1013, 1016-1019, 102, 1020, 103, 1032, 1036, 104-106, 1068, 107, 1071-1072, 11, 110-111, 1129-1131, 1133-1139, 114-115, 1169-1170, 1177-1181, 1184-1185, 12, 1223-1296, 13, 1329-1330, 1340-1341, 1345-1346, 1382-1384, 139, 14, 140, 1409, 141, 1410-1415, 142-145, 1451, 146, 149, 15, 150-159, 16, 160-169, 17, 170-179, 18, 180-189, 19, 190-199, 2, 20, 200-209, 21, 210-215, 22-24, 241-243, 25-28, 288-289, 29, 298-299, 3, 30, 300-304, 307, 31, 310, 312-313, 316-317, 32, 320-321, 324-329, 33, 330-339, 34, 340-349, 35, 350-359, 36, 360-369, 37, 370-379, 38, 380-389, 39, 390-399, 4, 40, 400-403, 41-42, 46-48, 498-499, 5, 51-52, 532-549, 55, 550-559, 56, 560-569, 57, 570-579, 58, 580-589, 59, 590-599, 60, 600-609, 61, 610-619, 62, 620-629, 63, 630, 64, 66-69, 7, 70-72, 8, 85, 863-869, 87, 870-872, 88, 882-883, 91, 912-913, 92, 921, 95, 953, 96, 964-969, 97, 970-972, 976, 98-99, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1419-1420, 1440-1443, 1418 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

10. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 538, 552-553, 555-581, 584-587, 623, 629-630, 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
11. Livy, History, 42.15-42.16, 45.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

12. Seneca The Younger, Hercules Oetaeus, 486-538, 567-582, 485 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

13. Seneca The Younger, Oedipus, 216, 233-238, 286, 418, 509, 697-708, 838-881, 915-979, 212 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
affective charge of hosios Peels, Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety (2016) 90
anagnos Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
anger Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 382
antigone (sophocles), and oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
antigone (sophocles), and seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
apollo Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 437
cathartic offerings Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 54
cithaeron Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152
coping, with misfortune Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 54
corinth Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152
creon Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58; Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25
daimon Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 437
delphi, oracle Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
delphi Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152
delphic oracle, the Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 437
disease, particular Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
divine punishment/retribution Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
eudaimonia, rooted in thinking in sophocles Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
eusebês (and cognates), usage, in context of parents and children Peels, Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety (2016) 90
eusebês (and cognates), usage Peels, Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety (2016) 90
exile, as purification Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 70
famine Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
general parodos, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
gods Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25
hagneia, as a divine law Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
hagneia, of words Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
haruspicy, harvest, loss of Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
hercules on oeta (seneca) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
home Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152
homicide Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25
hymn, to reverent purity Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
information, from the outside, by seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
katharmos Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 54; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
laios Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
laius Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 437
law Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25
loimos Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
miasma Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
miastor Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
moral cause of disease Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
myth, innovations of Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 54
oedipus, self-blinding Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 70
oedipus Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152; Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58; Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
oedipus the king (sophocles), and seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
oracle, at delphi Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
pestilence Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
pharmakos Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25
philoctetes Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 437
philter, from deianira Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763
phren/phrenes, seat of purity/impurity, in the antigone Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
pollution, as system of explanation Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 54
pollution Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25
prayer, chorus in oedipus tyrannus' Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
prologue, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
purification, as means of coping Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 54
religious prohibition, connected with disease Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
rituals Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25
sophocles, works, oedipus rex Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
sophocles Papaioannou et al., Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou, Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome (2021) 25; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
structure, of oedipus the king (sophocles) Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 507
thebes Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 180
tiresias Bierl, Time and Space in Ancient Myth, Religion and Culture (2017) 152
tragedy, and law Gagarin and Cohen, The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law (2005) 382
tragedy, and medicine Jouanna, Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen (2012) 58
understanding of misfortune, through words, provided by concept of pollution Meinel, Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy (2015) 54
women of trachis, the (sophocles), and seneca Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 763