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Sophocles, Women Of Trachis, 9-10


nanwho in three shapes was always asking me from my father—coming now as a bull in visible form, now as a serpent, sheeny and coiled, now ox-faced with human trunk, while from his thick-shaded beard wellheads of fountain-water sprayed.


nanFor I, while still dwelling in the house of my father Oeneus at Pleuron, had such fear of marriage as never any woman of Aetolia had. For my suitor was a river-god, Achelous


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

4 results
1. Euripides, Bacchae, 625 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

625. ᾖσσʼ ἐκεῖσε κᾆτʼ ἐκεῖσε, δμωσὶν Ἀχελῷον φέρειν 625. he ran here and there, calling to the slaves to bring water, and every servant was at work, toiling in vain.Then he let this labor drop, as I had escaped, and snatching a dark sword rushed into the house. Then Bromius, so it seems to me—I speak my opinion—
2. Sophocles, Antigone, 760, 781-782, 367 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

3. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 79-80, 78 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 12-27, 39-40, 9, 11 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

11. who in three shapes was always asking me from my father—coming now as a bull in visible form, now as a serpent, sheeny and coiled, now ox-faced with human trunk, while from his thick-shaded beard wellheads of fountain-water sprayed.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
absence Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
actors Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
alexandria Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
antigone,and love Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
arrival,of the chorus Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
beauty Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
callimachus Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
characters,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
chorus,the,arrival of Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
creon,and hatred Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
deianira,introductory monologue of Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
dianira Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
diptych tragedies Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
egypt Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
electra (sophocles),entrances in Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
epigram Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
erastes/eromenos Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
eros Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
heracles Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
humans Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
hymn,to eros Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
icon Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
monologue,introductory Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
paraklausithyron Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
poetry,and desire Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
prologue,entrances in Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
prologue,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
structure,of the women of trachis (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
women of trachis,the (sophocles),introductory monologue to Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 714
women of trachis,the (sophocles) Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 538
writing Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198
καλός inscriptions' Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 198