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subject	book bibliographic info
hermion	Grzesik (2022), Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. 54, 93
hermion, demeter cthonia	Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 128
hermion, e, argolid polis	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 323
hermione	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 225, 408 Bianchetti et al. (2015), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition, 366 Boeghold (2022), When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek Literature. 63 Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 141 Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 318, 319 Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 96, 100, 101
hermione, andromache	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 327
hermione, andromache, euripides, and, sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 564
hermione, apollo, pythaieus, spread of along the akte	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 145, 195
hermione, as epithet/hypostasis for demeter and persephone, hermione, menelauss daughter	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 323
hermione, daughter of philip	Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 198
hermione, dithyramb	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 151
hermione, divinities, greek and roman, demeter	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 323
hermione, epicles of	Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 80, 144
hermione, eustathius, on, sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 564
hermione, in andromache, downfall of	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 61, 62, 63, 65
hermione, in argolid	Bowie (2023), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Volume 2: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels. 186, 187, 226
hermione, lasus of	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 167, 179 Motta and Petrucci (2022), Isagogical Crossroads from the Early Imperial Age to the End of Antiquity, 183, 197 Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 25117, 25118
hermione, lyres/lyrody/citharas/citharists, epicles of	Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 80, 144
hermione, menelauss daughter, and divinatory incubation	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 30, 313, 322, 323
hermione, neoptolemus, and, sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 564
hermione, sophocles	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 564
hermione, wedding, of	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 261, 277
hermione, γραμματική	Bowie (2023), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Volume 2: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels. 425
hermiones, downfall in andromache and, eros	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 61, 62, 63, 65
hermiones, downfall in andromache, women in greek culture bad women and	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 62

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "hermione"

1. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Andromache (Euripides), and Hermione (Sophocles) • Eustathius, on Hermione (Sophocles) • Hermione (Sophocles) • Hermione, by Agorakritos • Neoptolemus, and Hermione (Sophocles)

Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 564; Rutter and Sparkes (2012), Word and Image in Ancient Greece, 67

2. Euripides, Electra, 1282-1283 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hermione

Found in books: Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 113; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 95

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1282 Ζεὺς δ', ὡς ἔρις γένοιτο καὶ φόνος βροτῶν,"¹²⁸³ εἴδωλον ̔Ελένης ἐξέπεμψ' ἐς ̓́Ιλιον." "" None

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1282 will bury her, with Helen helping him; for she has come from Proteus’ house, leaving Egypt , and she never went to Troy ; Zeus, to stir up strife and bloodshed among mortals, sent a phantom of Helen to Ilium . Now let Pylades, having one who is both a virgin and a married woman,'¹²⁸³ will bury her, with Helen helping him; for she has come from Proteus’ house, leaving Egypt , and she never went to Troy ; Zeus, to stir up strife and bloodshed among mortals, sent a phantom of Helen to Ilium . Now let Pylades, having one who is both a virgin and a married woman, ' None

3. Euripides, Orestes, 1639-1642, 1654-1655 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Andromache (Euripides), and Hermione (Sophocles) • Apollo (Pythaieus), spread of along the Akte, Hermione • Eustathius, on Hermione (Sophocles) • Hermione • Hermione (Sophocles) • Neoptolemus, and Hermione (Sophocles)

Found in books: Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 113; Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 564; Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 195; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 95

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1639 ἐπεὶ θεοὶ τῷ τῆσδε καλλιστεύματι'¹⁶⁴⁰ ̔́Ελληνας εἰς ἓν καὶ Φρύγας συνήγαγον,' "¹⁶⁴¹ θανάτους τ' ἔθηκαν, ὡς ἀπαντλοῖεν χθονὸς" '¹⁶⁴² ὕβρισμα θνητῶν ἀφθόνου πληρώματος.' "¹⁶⁵⁴ γῆμαι πέπρωταί ς' ̔Ερμιόνην: ὃς δ' οἴεται" '¹⁶⁵⁵ Νεοπτόλεμος γαμεῖν νιν, οὐ γαμεῖ ποτε. ' None

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1639 for she, his child, must be immortal, and take her seat with Castor and Polydeuces in the enfolding air, a savior to mariners. Choose another bride and take her to your home; for the gods by that one’s loveline'¹⁶⁴⁰ joined Troy and Hellas in battle, causing death so that they might draw off from the earth the outrage of unstinting numbers of mortals. ¹⁶⁵⁴ the gods will be arbitrators of your trial, and will take a most righteous vote on you at the hill of Ares, where you are to win your case. And it is destined, Orestes, that you will marry Hermione, at whose neck you are holding your sword; ¹⁶⁵⁵ Neoptolemus shall never marry her, though he thinks he will; for he is fated to die by a Delphian sword, when he claims satisfaction of me for the death of his father Achilles. Give your sister in marriage to Pylades, to whom you formerly promised her; the life awaiting him is one of happiness. ' None

4. Herodotus, Histories, 2.171 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hermione • dithyramb, Hermione

Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 151; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 96, 101

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2.171 ἐν δὲ τῇ λίμνῃ ταύτῃ τὰ δείκηλα τῶν παθέων αὐτοῦ νυκτὸς ποιεῦσι, τὰ καλέουσι μυστήρια Αἰγύπτιοι. περὶ μέν νυν τούτων εἰδότι μοι ἐπὶ πλέον ὡς ἕκαστα αὐτῶν ἔχει, εὔστομα κείσθω. καὶ τῆς Δήμητρος τελετῆς πέρι, τὴν οἱ Ἕλληνες θεσμοφόρια καλέουσι, καὶ ταύτης μοι πέρι εὔστομα κείσθω, πλὴν ὅσον αὐτῆς ὁσίη ἐστὶ λέγειν· αἱ Δαναοῦ θυγατέρες ἦσαν αἱ τὴν τελετὴν ταύτην ἐξ Αἰγύπτου ἐξαγαγοῦσαι καὶ διδάξασαι τὰς Πελασγιώτιδας γυναῖκας· μετὰ δὲ ἐξαναστάσης πάσης Πελοποννήσου 1 ὑπὸ Δωριέων ἐξαπώλετο ἡ τελετή, οἱ δὲ ὑπολειφθέντες Πελοποννησίων καὶ οὐκ ἐξαναστάντες Ἀρκάδες διέσωζον αὐτὴν μοῦνοι.'' None

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2.171 On this lake they enact by night the story of the god's sufferings, a rite which the Egyptians call the Mysteries. I could say more about this, for I know the truth, but let me preserve a discreet silence. ,Let me preserve a discreet silence, too, concerning that rite of Demeter which the Greeks call

5. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Andromache, downfall of Hermione in • Hermione • Hermione (Andromache) • eros, Hermiones downfall in Andromache and • women in Greek culture bad women and Hermiones downfall in Andromache

Found in books: Hesk (2000), Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens, 68; Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 61, 62; Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 318, 319; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 327

6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.35.4, 2.35.6-2.35.7, 2.36.1-2.36.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Apollo (Pythaieus), spread of along the Akte, Hermione • Demeter Cthonia, Hermion • Hermion • Hermione • dithyramb, Hermione

Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 145, 151; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 169; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 120; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 100; Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 128

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2.35.4 τὸ δὲ λόγου μάλιστα ἄξιον ἱερὸν Δήμητρός ἐστιν ἐπὶ τοῦ Πρωνός. τοῦτο τὸ ἱερὸν Ἑρμιονεῖς μὲν Κλύμενον Φορωνέως παῖδα καὶ ἀδελφὴν Κλυμένου Χθονίαν τοὺς ἱδρυσαμένους φασὶν εἶναι. Ἀργεῖοι δέ, ὅτε ἐς τὴν Ἀργολίδα ἦλθε Δημήτηρ, τότε Ἀθέραν μὲν λέγουσι καὶ Μύσιον ὡς ξενίαν παράσχοιεν τῇ θεῷ, Κολόνταν δὲ οὔτε οἴκῳ δέξασθαι τὴν θεὸν οὔτε ἀπονεῖμαί τι ἄλλο ἐς τιμήν· ταῦτα δὲ οὐ κατὰ γνώμην Χθονίᾳ τῇ θυγατρὶ ποιεῖν αὐτόν. Κολόνταν μὲν οὖν φασιν ἀντὶ τούτων συγκαταπρησθῆναι τῇ οἰκίᾳ, Χθονίαν δὲ κομισθεῖσαν ἐς Ἑρμιόνα ὑπὸ Δήμητρος Ἑρμιονεῦσι ποιῆσαι τὸ ἱερόν. ^2.35.6 τοῖς δὲ τὴν πομπὴν πέμπουσιν ἕπονται τελείαν ἐξ ἀγέλης βοῦν ἄγοντες διειλημμένην δεσμοῖς τε καὶ ὑβρίζουσαν ἔτι ὑπὸ ἀγριότητος. ἐλάσαντες δὲ πρὸς τὸν ναὸν οἱ μὲν ἔσω φέρεσθαι τὴν βοῦν ἐς τὸ ἱερὸν ἀνῆκαν ἐκ τῶν δεσμῶν, ἕτεροι δὲ ἀναπεπταμένας ἔχοντες τέως τὰς θύρας, ἐπειδὰν τὴν βοῦν ἴδωσιν ἐντὸς τοῦ ναοῦ, προσέθεσαν τὰς θύρας. ^2.35.7 τέσσαρες δὲ ἔνδον ὑπολειπόμεναι γρᾶες, αὗται τὴν βοῦν εἰσιν αἱ κατεργαζόμεναι· δρεπάνῳ γὰρ ἥτις ἂν τύχῃ τὴν φάρυγγα ὑπέτεμε τῆς βοός. μετὰ δὲ αἱ θύραι τε ἠνοίχθησαν καὶ προσελαύνουσιν οἷς ἐπιτέτακται βοῦν δὲ δευτέραν καὶ τρίτην ἐπὶ ταύτῃ καὶ ἄλλην τετάρτην. κατεργάζονταί τε δὴ πάσας κατὰ ταὐτὰ αἱ γρᾶες καὶ τόδε ἄλλο πρόσκειται τῇ θυσίᾳ θαῦμα· ἐφʼ ἥντινα γὰρ ἂν πέσῃ τῶν πλευρῶν ἡ πρώτη βοῦς, ἀνάγκη πεσεῖν καὶ πάσας. ^2.36.1 κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ Μάσητα εὐθεῖαν προελθοῦσιν ἑπτά που σταδίους καὶ ἐς ἀριστερὰν ἐκτραπεῖσιν, ἐς Ἁλίκην ἐστὶν ὁδός. ἡ δὲ Ἁλίκη τὰ μὲν ἐφʼ ἡμῶν ἐστιν ἔρημος, ᾠκεῖτο δὲ καὶ αὕτη ποτέ, καὶ Ἁλικῶν λόγος ἐν στήλαις ἐστὶ ταῖς Ἐπιδαυρίων αἳ τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ τὰ ἰάματα ἐγγεγραμμένα ἔχουσιν· ἄλλο δὲ σύγγραμμα οὐδὲν οἶδα ἀξιόχρεων, ἔνθα ἢ πόλεως Ἁλίκης ἢ ἀνδρῶν ἐστιν Ἁλικῶν μνήμη. ἔστι δʼ οὖν ὁδὸς καὶ ἐς ταύτην, τοῦ τε Πρωνὸς μέση καὶ ὄρους ἑτέρου Θόρνακος καλουμένου τὸ ἀρχαῖον· ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Διὸς ἐς κόκκυγα τὸν ὄρνιθα ἀλλαγῆς λεγομένης ἐνταῦθα γενέσθαι μετονομασθῆναι τὸ ὄρος φασίν. ^2.36.2 ἱερὰ δὲ καὶ ἐς τόδε ἐπὶ ἄκρων τῶν ὀρῶν, ἐπὶ μὲν τῷ Κοκκυγίῳ Διός, ἐν δὲ τῷ Πρωνί ἐστιν Ἥρας· καὶ τοῦ γε Κοκκυγίου πρὸς τοῖς πέρασι ναός ἐστι, θύραι δὲ οὐκ ἐφεστήκασιν οὐδὲ ὄροφον εἶχεν οὐδέ οἵ τι ἐνῆν ἄγαλμα· εἶναι δὲ ἐλέγετο ὁ ναὸς Ἀπόλλωνος. παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν ὁδός ἐστιν ἐπὶ Μάσητα τοῖς ἐκτραπεῖσιν ἐκ τῆς εὐθείας. Μάσητι δὲ οὔσῃ πόλει τὸ ἀρχαῖον, καθὰ καὶ Ὅμηρος ἐν Ἀργείων καταλόγῳ πεποίηκεν, ἐπινείῳ καθʼ ἡμᾶς ἐχρῶντο Ἑρμιονεῖς.'' None

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2.35.4 The object most worthy of mention is a sanctuary of Demeter on Pron. This sanctuary is said by the Hermionians to have been founded by Clymenus, son of Phoroneus, and Chthonia, sister of Clymenus. But the Argive account is that when Demeter came to Argolis, while Atheras and Mysius afforded hospitality to the goddess, Colontas neither received her into his home nor paid her any other mark of respect. His daughter Chthoia disapproved of this conduct. They say that Colontas was punished by being burnt up along with his house, while Chthonia was brought to Hermion by Demeter, and made the sanctuary for the Hermionians. ^2.35.6 Those who form the procession are followed by men leading from the herd a full-grown cow, fastened with ropes, and still untamed and frisky. Having driven the cow to the temple, some loose her from the ropes that she may rush into the sanctuary, others, who hitherto have been holding the doors open, when they see the cow within the temple, close the doors. ^2.35.7 Four old women, left behind inside, are they who dispatch the cow. Whichever gets the chance cuts the throat of the cow with a sickle. Afterwards the doors are opened, and those who are appointed drive up a second cow, and a third after that, and yet a fourth. All are dispatched in the same way by the old women, and the sacrifice has yet another strange feature. On whichever of her sides the first cow falls, all the others must fall on the same. ^2.36.1 Proceeding about seven stades along the straight road to Mases, you reach, on turning to the left, a road to Halice. At the present day Halice is deserted, but once it, too, had inhabitants, and there is mention made of citizens of Halice on the Epidaurian slabs on which are inscribed the cures of Asclepius. I know, however, no other authentic document in which mention is made either of the city Halice or of its citizens. Well, to this city also there is a road, which lies midway between Pron and another mountain, called in old days Thornax; but they say that the name was changed because, according to legend, it was here that the transformation of Zeus into a cuckoo took place.' "^2.36.2 Even to the present day there are sanctuaries on the tops of the mountains: on Mount Cuckoo one of Zeus, on Pron one of Hera. At the foot of Mount Cuckoo is a temple, but there are no doors standing, and I found it without a roof or an image inside. The temple was said to be Apollo's. by the side of it runs a road to Mases for those who have turned aside from the straight road. Mases was in old days a city, even as Homer Hom. Il. 2.562 represents it in the catalogue of the Argives, but in my time the Hermionians were using it as a seaport."' None

7. Strabo, Geography, 9.3.9
Tagged with subjects: • Andromache (Euripides), and Hermione (Sophocles) • Apollo (Pythaieus), spread of along the Akte, Hermione • Eustathius, on Hermione (Sophocles) • Hermione (Sophocles) • Neoptolemus, and Hermione (Sophocles)

Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 564; Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 195

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9.3.9 of the temples, the one with wings must be placed among the myths; the second is said to be the work of Trophonius and Agamedes; and the present temple was built by the Amphictyons. In the sacred precinct is to be seen the tomb of Neoptolemus, which was made in accordance with an oracle, Machaereus, a Delphian, having slain him because, according to the myth, he was asking the god for redress for the murder of his father; but according to all probability it was because he had attacked the sanctuary. Branchus, who presided over the sanctuary at Didyma, is called a descendant of Machaereus.'' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

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