1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.38.4 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •helen, in euripides •twinning, in euripides’ helen Found in books: Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 292| 3.38.4. αἴτιοι δ’ ὑμεῖς κακῶς ἀγωνοθετοῦντες, οἵτινες εἰώθατε θεαταὶ μὲν τῶν λόγων γίγνεσθαι, ἀκροαταὶ δὲ τῶν ἔργων, τὰ μὲν μέλλοντα ἔργα ἀπὸ τῶν εὖ εἰπόντων σκοποῦντες ὡς δυνατὰ γίγνεσθαι, τὰ δὲ πεπραγμένα ἤδη, οὐ τὸ δρασθὲν πιστότερον ὄψει λαβόντες ἢ τὸ ἀκουσθέν, ἀπὸ τῶν λόγῳ καλῶς ἐπιτιμησάντων: | 3.38.4. The persons to blame are you who are so foolish as to institute these contests; who go to see an oration as you would to see a sight, take your facts on hearsay, judge of the practicability of a project by the wit of its advocates, and trust for the truth as to past events not to the fact which you saw more than to the clever strictures which you heard; |
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2. Aristophanes, Frogs, 1009 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •helen, in euripides Found in books: Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 288| 1009. δεξιότητος καὶ νουθεσίας, ὅτι βελτίους τε ποιοῦμεν | |
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3. Euripides, Helen, 1034, 1049, 1056, 1091, 1103, 1130, 118, 132, 1322, 1341-1349, 1351-1352, 1366-1368, 138, 1542, 1547, 1621, 164-166, 17-21, 309, 491-499, 580-581, 588, 610, 813, 930, 947-948, 996-997, 1350 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 292| 1350. δέξατό τ' ἐς χέρας | |
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| 4. Gorgias, Helena, 1, 11-14, 2, 8-10 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Steiner (2001), Images in Mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought, 288 |
