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Sophocles, Women Of Trachis, 164

nan	He had always departed as if to conquer, not to die. But now, as if he were a doomed man, he told me what I should take for my marriage portion, and what share of their father’s land he wished divided for his children. And he fixed the time for the division, saying that, when he had been gone

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1. Homer, Iliad, 12.235-12.236, 12.241, 16.234-16.235 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

12.235. /seeing thou biddest me forget the counsels of loud-thundering Zeus, that himself promised me and bowed his head thereto. But thou biddest us be obedient to birds long of wing, that I regard not, nor take thought thereof, whether they fare to the right, toward the Dawn and the sun 12.236. /seeing thou biddest me forget the counsels of loud-thundering Zeus, that himself promised me and bowed his head thereto. But thou biddest us be obedient to birds long of wing, that I regard not, nor take thought thereof, whether they fare to the right, toward the Dawn and the sun 12.241. /or to the left toward the murky darkness. nay, for us, let us be obedient to the counsel of great Zeus, that is king over all mortals and immortals. One omen is best, to fight for one's country. Wherefore dost thou fear war and battle? 16.234. /and himself he washed his hands, and drew flaming wine. Then he made prayer, standing in the midst of the court, and poured forth the wine, looking up to heaven; and not unmarked was he of Zeus, that hurleth the thunderbolt:Zeus, thou king, Dodonaean, Pelasgian, thou that dwellest afar, ruling over wintry Dodona,—and about thee dwell the Selli 16.235. /thine interpreters, men with unwashen feet that couch on the ground. Aforetime verily thou didst hear my word, when I prayed: me thou didst honour, and didst mightily smite the host of the Achaeans; even so now also fulfill thou for me this my desire. Myself verily will I abide in the gathering of the ships

2. Homer, Odyssey, 14.327-14.328, 19.296-19.297 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 161-175, 160 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

160. Ζεύς, ὅστις ποτʼ ἐστίν, εἰ τόδʼ αὐ-

160. Zeus, whosoe’er he be, — if that express

4. Euripides, Helen, 1342-1345, 1341 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

1341. βᾶτε, σεμναὶ Χάριτες

5. Herodotus, Histories, 7.140-7.143 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7.140. The Athenians had sent messages to Delphi asking that an oracle be given them, and when they had performed all due rites at the temple and sat down in the inner hall, the priestess, whose name was Aristonice, gave them this answer: , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Wretches, why do you linger here? Rather flee from your houses and city, /l lFlee to the ends of the earth from the circle embattled of Athens! /l lThe head will not remain in its place, nor in the body, /l lNor the feet beneath, nor the hands, nor the parts between; /l lBut all is ruined, for fire and the headlong god of war speeding in a Syrian chariot will bring you low. /l /quote , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Many a fortress too, not yours alone, will he shatter; /l lMany a shrine of the gods will he give to the flame for devouring; /l lSweating for fear they stand, and quaking for dread of the enemy, /l lRunning with gore are their roofs, foreseeing the stress of their sorrow; /l lTherefore I bid you depart from the sanctuary. /l lHave courage to lighten your evil. /l /quote 7.141. When the Athenian messengers heard that, they were very greatly dismayed, and gave themselves up for lost by reason of the evil foretold. Then Timon son of Androbulus, as notable a man as any Delphian, advised them to take boughs of supplication and in the guise of suppliants, approach the oracle a second time. ,The Athenians did exactly this; “Lord,” they said, “regard mercifully these suppliant boughs which we bring to you, and give us some better answer concerning our country. Otherwise we will not depart from your temple, but remain here until we die.” Thereupon the priestess gave them this second oracle: , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Vainly does Pallas strive to appease great Zeus of Olympus; /l lWords of entreaty are vain, and so too cunning counsels of wisdom. /l lNevertheless I will speak to you again of strength adamantine. /l lAll will be taken and lost that the sacred border of Cecrops /l lHolds in keeping today, and the dales divine of Cithaeron; /l lYet a wood-built wall will by Zeus all-seeing be granted /l lTo the Trito-born, a stronghold for you and your children. /l /quote , quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Await not the host of horse and foot coming from Asia, /l lNor be still, but turn your back and withdraw from the foe. /l lTruly a day will come when you will meet him face to face. /l lDivine Salamis, you will bring death to women's sons /l lWhen the corn is scattered, or the harvest gathered in. /l /quote 7.142. This answer seemed to be and really was more merciful than the first, and the envoys, writing it down, departed for Athens. When the messengers had left Delphi and laid the oracle before the people, there was much inquiry concerning its meaning, and among the many opinions which were uttered, two contrary ones were especially worthy of note. Some of the elder men said that the gods answer signified that the acropolis should be saved, for in old time the acropolis of Athens had been fenced by a thorn hedge, ,which, by their interpretation, was the wooden wall. But others supposed that the god was referring to their ships, and they were for doing nothing but equipping these. Those who believed their ships to be the wooden wall were disabled by the two last verses of the oracle: quote type="oracle" l met="dact"Divine Salamis, you will bring death to women's sons /l lWhen the corn is scattered, or the harvest gathered in. /l /quote ,These verses confounded the opinion of those who said that their ships were the wooden wall, for the readers of oracles took the verses to mean that they should offer battle by sea near Salamis and be there overthrown. 7.143. Now there was a certain Athenian, by name and title Themistocles son of Neocles, who had lately risen to be among their chief men. He claimed that the readers of oracles had incorrectly interpreted the whole of the oracle and reasoned that if the verse really pertained to the Athenians, it would have been formulated in less mild language, calling Salamis “cruel” rather than “divine ” seeing that its inhabitants were to perish. ,Correctly understood, the gods' oracle was spoken not of the Athenians but of their enemies, and his advice was that they should believe their ships to be the wooden wall and so make ready to fight by sea. ,When Themistocles put forward this interpretation, the Athenians judged him to be a better counsellor than the readers of oracles, who would have had them prepare for no sea fight, and, in short, offer no resistance at all, but leave Attica and settle in some other country.

6. Sophocles, Ajax, 757, 778-779, 756 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

7. Sophocles, Electra, 33-37, 32 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

8. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 1624-1630, 1657-1662, 1623 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

9. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 1159-1161, 1164-1173, 1259-1269, 127, 1270-1278, 128, 136, 144-153, 155-163, 165-172, 178, 194, 76-79, 102 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

102. is he on the straits of the sea, or does he lean upon the twin continents? Speak, you who surpass all in sight! Chorus:

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acheloüs	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
ajax (sophocles), and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
alcestis (euripides)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 545
alcmene	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
apollo, and orestes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
aristotle, on tragedy	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
athena, and ajax	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
athena	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
audience, theatre	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
birth / gonai plays (comic / tragic)	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
calypso	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
chorus, in drama	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
criticism, of divination	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 742
day, fateful	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 742
deception	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
deianeira	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
deianira, and oracles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
deianira, and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
destiny, of heracles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382, 545
deus ex machina	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
diptych tragedies	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 545
dodona, and zeus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382, 742
dodona	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
electra (sophocles), and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
electra (sophocles), the oracle in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
episodes, and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
episodes, of the women of trachis (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 539
exodos, of the women of trachis (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 545
force (personification)	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
general dates, of sophocles works	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 545
general parodos, and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
general parodos, of the women of trachis (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 539
gods, and humans	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
heracles, and oracles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
heracles	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
hermes	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
humans, and the gods	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
hyllus, and oracles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
hyllus	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
ithaca	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
justice	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
oedipus	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121; Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
olympian gods	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
omphale	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
oracle, old and new	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
oracle (divine message)	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
orestes, and the oracle	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
penelope	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
phaeacia'	Markantonatos, Brill's Companion to Sophocles (2012) 256
prologue, and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
prometheus	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
sanctuary, of zeus	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 742
scenes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
silence, of deianira	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
structure, of the women of trachis (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 539, 545
tecmessa, and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
teucer, and episodes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
thunderbolt	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
time, and oracles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 742
tutor, and orestes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
tyranny	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
vengeance, by orestes	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
women of trachis, the (sophocles), and scene divisions	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 278
women of trachis, the (sophocles), oracles in	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
women of trachis, the (sophocles)	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 539, 545
zeus, and oracles	Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context (2018) 382
βία / violence (personification)	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121
κράτος / force (personification)	Lipka, Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus (2021) 121