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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



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Vergil, Eclogues, 4.18-4.21


nanhall free the earth from never-ceasing fear.


nanHe shall receive the life of gods, and see


nanheroes with gods commingling, and himself


nanbe seen of them, and with his father's worth


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

9 results
1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 203-212, 352-360, 202 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

202. Might will be right and shame shall cease to be
2. Theocritus, Idylls, 17.13 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

3. Horace, Epodes, 7 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 5.958-5.959 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Vergil, Aeneis, 3.381 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.381. ame, and Neritos, a rocky steep
6. Vergil, Eclogues, 4.1-4.3, 4.7, 4.11, 4.13, 4.15, 4.17, 4.19-4.25, 4.30-4.35, 4.38-4.39 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

4.1. muses of placeName key= 4.2. a somewhat loftier task! Not all men love 4.3. coppice or lowly tamarisk: sing we woods 4.7. of circling centuries begins anew: 4.11. the iron shall cease, the golden race arise 4.13. apollo reigns. And in thy consulate 4.15. and the months enter on their mighty march. 4.17. of our old wickedness, once done away 4.19. He shall receive the life of gods, and see 4.20. heroes with gods commingling, and himself 4.21. be seen of them, and with his father's worth 4.22. reign o'er a world at peace. For thee, O boy 4.23. first shall the earth, untilled, pour freely forth 4.24. her childish gifts, the gadding ivy-spray 4.25. with foxglove and Egyptian bean-flower mixed 4.30. Thy very cradle shall pour forth for thee 4.31. caressing flowers. The serpent too shall die 4.32. die shall the treacherous poison-plant, and far 4.33. and wide Assyrian spices spring. But soon 4.34. as thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame 4.35. and of thy father's deeds, and inly learn 4.38. from the wild briar shall hang the blushing grape 4.39. and stubborn oaks sweat honey-dew. Nathle
7. Vergil, Georgics, 1.51-1.52, 1.124-1.135 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.51. Her mother's voice entreating to return— 1.52. Vouchsafe a prosperous voyage, and smile on thi 1.124. Pray for wet summers and for winters fine 1.125. Ye husbandmen; in winter's dust the crop 1.126. Exceedingly rejoice, the field hath joy; 1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.128. Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admire. 1.129. Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.131. The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn 1.132. Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain; 1.133. And when the parched field quivers, and all the blade 1.134. Are dying, from the brow of its hill-bed 1.135. See! see! he lures the runnel; down it falls
8. Lucan, Pharsalia, 1.8-1.23 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

9. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.544-1.555 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeetes Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
aeneas Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 168
ambrose O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 344
anonymity Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 54
argo, as first ship Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
brundisium, treaty of Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 52
christ, infant O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 344
cicero, correspondence of Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134
colchis Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
cornucopia Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 135
dido Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 168
doliones Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
fas Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 94
gifts, and excess Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134
golden age, and aesthetic production Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 135
golden age, and ideology of patronage Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134, 135
golden age, attributes of Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134, 135
golden age, in georgic Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics (1989) 94
golden age Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122; O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 344; Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 52, 53, 54
gratia, and libidinal excess Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134, 135
gratia, in eclogue Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134, 135
hesiod Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134
hippolytus Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
ideology, as function of art Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 135
imagery, flowers O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 344
imagery, nectar O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 344
iolcus Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
iron age Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
jason Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
jupiter Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
land, and aesthetic production Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 135
lemnos Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
libertas Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 54
lucina Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 54
money, and image of comucopiae Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 135
new age O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 344
patronage, assimilated to pastoral conventions Bowditch, Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion: On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination (2001) 134, 135
perses Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
pollio, gaius asinius Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 52
priam' Putnam et al., The Poetic World of Statius' Silvae (2023) 168
primitivism Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
prophecy, messianic O'Daly, Days Linked by Song: Prudentius' Cathemerinon (2012) 344
saturn Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
theocritus Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 53
tityrus Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 54
valerius flaccus, and apollonius rhodius Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
valerius flaccus, and seneca Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
valerius flaccus, civil war in Augoustakis, Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past (2014) 122
virgin (astraea, justice) Xinyue, Politics and Divinization in Augustan Poetry (2022) 54