1. Homer, Odyssey, 11.23-11.43, 11.97-11.99 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 11.23. ἔνθʼ ἱερήια μὲν Περιμήδης Εὐρύλοχός τε 11.24. ἔσχον· ἐγὼ δʼ ἄορ ὀξὺ ἐρυσσάμενος παρὰ μηροῦ 11.25. βόθρον ὄρυξʼ ὅσσον τε πυγούσιον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα, 11.26. ἀμφʼ αὐτῷ δὲ χοὴν χεόμην πᾶσιν νεκύεσσι, 11.27. πρῶτα μελικρήτῳ, μετέπειτα δὲ ἡδέι οἴνῳ, 11.28. τὸ τρίτον αὖθʼ ὕδατι· ἐπὶ δʼ ἄλφιτα λευκὰ πάλυνον. 11.29. πολλὰ δὲ γουνούμην νεκύων ἀμενηνὰ κάρηνα, 11.30. ἐλθὼν εἰς Ἰθάκην στεῖραν βοῦν, ἥ τις ἀρίστη, 11.31. ῥέξειν ἐν μεγάροισι πυρήν τʼ ἐμπλησέμεν ἐσθλῶν, 11.32. Τειρεσίῃ δʼ ἀπάνευθεν ὄιν ἱερευσέμεν οἴῳ 11.33. παμμέλανʼ, ὃς μήλοισι μεταπρέπει ἡμετέροισι. 11.34. τοὺς δʼ ἐπεὶ εὐχωλῇσι λιτῇσί τε, ἔθνεα νεκρῶν, 11.35. ἐλλισάμην, τὰ δὲ μῆλα λαβὼν ἀπεδειροτόμησα 11.36. ἐς βόθρον, ῥέε δʼ αἷμα κελαινεφές· αἱ δʼ ἀγέροντο 11.37. ψυχαὶ ὑπὲξ Ἐρέβευς νεκύων κατατεθνηώτων. 11.38. νύμφαι τʼ ἠίθεοί τε πολύτλητοί τε γέροντες 11.39. παρθενικαί τʼ ἀταλαὶ νεοπενθέα θυμὸν ἔχουσαι, 11.40. πολλοὶ δʼ οὐτάμενοι χαλκήρεσιν ἐγχείῃσιν, 11.41. ἄνδρες ἀρηίφατοι βεβροτωμένα τεύχεʼ ἔχοντες· 11.42. οἳ πολλοὶ περὶ βόθρον ἐφοίτων ἄλλοθεν ἄλλος 11.43. θεσπεσίῃ ἰαχῇ· ἐμὲ δὲ χλωρὸν δέος ᾕρει. 11.97. ὣς φάτʼ, ἐγὼ δʼ ἀναχασσάμενος ξίφος ἀργυρόηλον 11.98. κουλεῷ ἐγκατέπηξʼ. ὁ δʼ ἐπεὶ πίεν αἷμα κελαινόν, 11.99. καὶ τότε δή μʼ ἐπέεσσι προσηύδα μάντις ἀμύμων· | 11.25. dug a pit a cubit's length this way and that, and poured a libation to all the dead about it, first with milk and honey, thereafter with sweet wine, a third time with water, then sprinkled white barley groats upon it. I repeatedly entreated the helpless heads of the dead, 11.30. that when I got to Ithaca I'd offer a cow that's not yet calved, my best one, in my palace, then I'd fill the pyre with good things, and that I'd sacrifice separately, to Teiresias alone, a solid-black ram, that stands out among our sheep. After I'd implored with prayers and vows the tribes of corpses, 11.35. I took the sheep and cut their throats and the cloud-dark blood flowed into the pit. Up out of Erebusthey gathered, the souls of the dead who'd died, brides, young men never married, old men who'd suffered much, tender maidens with hearts new to sorrow, 11.40. and many wounded by bronze spears, men killed in battle, holding armor stained with gore. They stalked about the pit in throngs from one place and another with an awful screeching, and green terror seized me. Then at that moment I urged and ordered my comrade |
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2. Xenophon, The Persian Expedition, 3.1.5, 6.1.22 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •oracle of klaros Found in books: Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 47, 49 3.1.5. ὁ μέντοι Ξενοφῶν ἀναγνοὺς τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἀνακοινοῦται Σωκράτει τῷ Ἀθηναίῳ περὶ τῆς πορείας. καὶ ὁ Σωκράτης ὑποπτεύσας μή τι πρὸς τῆς πόλεως ὑπαίτιον εἴη Κύρῳ φίλον γενέσθαι, ὅτι ἐδόκει ὁ Κῦρος προθύμως τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις ἐπὶ τὰς Ἀθήνας συμπολεμῆσαι, συμβουλεύει τῷ Ξενοφῶντι ἐλθόντα εἰς Δελφοὺς ἀνακοινῶσαι τῷ θεῷ περὶ τῆς πορείας. 6.1.22. διαπορουμένῳ δὲ αὐτῷ διακρῖναι ἔδοξε κράτιστον εἶναι τοῖς θεοῖς ἀνακοινῶσαι· καὶ παραστησάμενος δύο ἱερεῖα ἐθύετο τῷ Διὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ, ὅσπερ αὐτῷ μαντευτὸς ἦν ἐκ Δελφῶν· καὶ τὸ ὄναρ δὴ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ θεοῦ ἐνόμιζεν ἑορακέναι ὃ εἶδεν ὅτε ἤρχετο ἐπὶ τὸ συνεπιμελεῖσθαι τῆς στρατιᾶς καθίστασθαι. | 3.1.5. After reading Proxenus’ letter Xenophon conferred with Socrates, The philosopher, whose follower and friend Xenophon had been from his youth. the Athenian, about the proposed journey; and Socrates, suspecting that his becoming a friend of Cyrus might be a cause for accusation against Xenophon on the part of the Athenian government, for the reason that Cyrus was thought to have given the Lacedaemonians zealous aid in their war against Athens, See Introd., pp. 231-233. advised Xenophon to go to Delphi and consult the god in regard to this journey. 6.1.22. Quite unable as he was to decide the question, it seemed best to him to consult the gods; and he accordingly brought two victims to the altar and proceeded to offer sacrifice to King Zeus, the very god that the oracle at Delphi had prescribed for him; and it was likewise from this god, as he believed, that the dream came which he had at the time when he took the first steps toward assuming a share in the charge of the army. 23 Moreover, he recalled that when he was setting out from Ephesus to be introduced to Cyrus, an eagle screamed upon his right; it was sitting, however, and the soothsayer who was conducting him said that while the omen was one suited to the great rather than to an ordinary person, and while it betokened glory, it nevertheless portended suffering, for the reason that other birds are most apt to attack the eagle when it is sitting; still, he said, the omen did not betoken gain, for it is rather while the eagle is on the wing that it gets its food. 24 So it was, then, that Xenophon made sacrifice, and the god signified to him quite clearly that he should neither strive for the command nor accept it in case he should be chosen. Such was the issue of this matter. 6.1.22. Quite unable as he was to decide the question, it seemed best to him to consult the gods; and he accordingly brought two victims to the altar and proceeded to offer sacrifice to King Zeus, the very god that the oracle at Delphi had prescribed for him; cp. Xen. Anab. 3.1.5 ff. and it was likewise from this god, as he believed, that the dream cp. Xen. Anab. 3.1.11 f. came which he had at the time when he took the first steps toward assuming a share in the charge of the army. |
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3. Euripides, Electra, 534-539, 541, 540 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 540. κερκίδος ὅτῳ γνοίης ἂν ἐξύφασμα σῆς, 540. ἐν ᾧ ποτ' αὐτὸν ἐξέκλεψα μὴ θανεῖν; | 540. in which I once stole him away from death? Electra |
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4. Euripides, Hecuba, 534-536, 538-541, 537 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 537. κόρης ἀκραιφνὲς αἷμ', ὅ σοι δωρούμεθα | 537. accept the offering I pour for you to appease your spirit, strong to raise the dead; and come to drink the black blood of a pure girl, which I and the army are offering you; oh! be propitious to us; grant that we may loose our prows and the |
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5. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.51, 43.66 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •oracle of klaros Found in books: Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 46, 48 | 21.51. Now if I had not been chorus-master, men of Athens, when I was thus maltreated by Meidias, it is only the personal insult that one would have condemned; but under the circumstances I think one would be justified in condemning also the impiety of the act. You surely realize that all your choruses and hymns to the god are sanctioned, not only by the regulations of the Dionysia, but also by the oracles, in all of which, whether given at Delphi or at Dodona, you will find a solemn injunction to the State to set up dances after the ancestral custom, to fill the streets with the savour of sacrifice, and to wear garlands. 43.66. (To the clerk.) Now please read the words of the oracle brought from Delphi, from the shrine of the god, that you may see that it speaks in the same terms concerning relatives as do the laws of Solon. Oracle May good fortune attend you. The people of the Athenians make inquiry about the sign which has appeared in the heavens, asking what the Athenians should do, or to what god they should offer sacrifice or make prayer, in order that the issue of the sign may be for their advantage. It will be well for the Athenians with reference to the sign which has appeared in the heavens that they sacrifice with happy auspices to Zeus most high, to Athena most high, to Heracles, to Apollo the deliverer, and that they send due offerings to the Amphiones; Possibly, Amphion and Zethus; but their tomb was near Thebes . See Paus. 9.17.4 that they sacrifice for good fortune to Apollo, god of the ways, to Leto and to Artemis, and that they make the streets steam with the savour of sacrifice; that they set forth bowls of wine and institute choruses and wreathe themselves with garlands after the custom of their fathers, in honor of all the Olympian gods and goddesses, lifting up the right hand and the left, and that they be mindful to bring gifts of thanksgiving after the custom of their fathers. And ye shall offer sacrificial gifts after the custom of your fathers to the hero-founder after whom ye are named; and for the dead their relatives shall make offerings on the appointed day according to established custom. |
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6. Polybius, Histories, 23.10.17 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 |
7. Strabo, Geography, 6.3.9 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 | 6.3.9. From Barium to the Aufidus River, on which is the Emporium of the Canusitae is four hundred stadia and the voyage inland to Emporium is ninety. Near by is also Salapia, the seaport of the Argyrippini. For not far above the sea (in the plain, at all events) are situated two cities, Canusium and Argyrippa, which in earlier times were the largest of the Italiote cities, as is clear from the circuits of their walls. Now, however, Argyrippa is smaller; it was called Argos Hippium at first, then Argyrippa, and then by the present name Arpi. Both are said to have been founded by Diomedes. And as signs of the dominion of Diomedes in these regions are to be seen the Plain of Diomedes and many other things, among which are the old votive offerings in the sanctuary of Athene at Luceria — a place which likewise was in ancient times a city of the Daunii, but is now reduced — and, in the sea near by, two islands that are called the Islands of Diomedes, of which one is inhabited, while the other, it is said, is desert; on the latter, according to certain narrators of myths, Diomedes was caused to disappear, and his companions were changed to birds, and to this day, in fact, remain tame and live a sort of human life, not only in their orderly ways but also in their tameness towards honorable men and in their flight from wicked and knavish men. But I have already mentioned the stories constantly told among the Heneti about this hero and the rites which are observed in his honor. It is thought that Sipus also was founded by Diomedes, which is about one hundred and forty stadia distant from Salapia; at any rate it was named Sepius in Greek after the sepia that are cast ashore by the waves. Between Salapia and Sipus is a navigable river, and also a large lake that opens into the sea; and the merchandise from Sipus, particularly grain, is brought down on both. In Daunia, on a hill by the name of Drium, are to be seen two hero-temples: one, to Calchas, on the very summit, where those who consult the oracle sacrifice to his shade a black ram and sleep in the hide, and the other, to Podaleirius, down near the base of the hill, this sanctuary being about one hundred stadia distant from the sea; and from it flows a stream which is a cure-all for diseases of animals. In front of this gulf is a promontory, Garganum, which extends towards the east for a distance of three hundred stadia into the high sea; doubling the headland, one comes to a small town, Urium, and off the headland are to be seen the Islands of Diomedes. This whole country produces everything in great quantity, and is excellent for horses and sheep; but though the wool is softer than the Tarantine, it is not so glossy. And the country is well sheltered, because the plains lie in hollows. According to some, Diomedes even tried to cut a canal as far as the sea, but left behind both this and the rest of his undertakings only half-finished, because he was summoned home and there ended his life. This is one account of him; but there is also a second, that he stayed here till the end of his life; and a third, the aforesaid mythical account, which tells of his disappearance in the island; and as a fourth one might set down the account of the Heneti, for they too tell a mythical story of how he in some way came to his end in their country, and they call it his apotheosis. |
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8. Plutarch, Roman Questions, 270a (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 |
9. Plutarch, Aristides, 11.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •oracle of klaros Found in books: Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 47 11.3. Ἀριστείδου δὲ πέμψαντος εἰς Δελφοὺς ἀνεῖλεν ὁ θεὸς Ἀθηναίους καθυπερτέρους ἔσεσθαι τῶν ἐναντίων εὐχομένους τῷ Διῒ καὶ τῇ Ἥρα τῇ Κιθαιρωνίᾳ καὶ Πανὶ καὶ νύμφαις Σφραγίτισι, καὶ θύοντας ἥρωσιν Ἀνδροκράτει, Λεύκωνι, Πεισάνδρῳ, Δαμοκράτει, Ὑψίωνι, Ἀκταίωνι, Πολϋΐδῳ, καὶ τὸν κίνδυνον ἐν γᾷ ἰδίᾳ ποιουμένους ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ τᾶς Δάματρος τᾶς Ἐλευσινίας καὶ τᾶς Κόρας. | 11.3. But Aristides sent to Delphi and received from the god response that the Athenians would be superior to their foes if they made vows to Zeus, Cithaeronian Hera, Pan, and the Sphragitic nymphs; paid sacrifices to the heroes Androcrates, Leucon, Pisandrus, Damocrates, Hypsion, Actaeon, and Polyidus; and if they sustained the peril of battle on their own soil, in the plain of Eleusinian Demeter and Cora. |
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10. Plutarch, Sayings of The Spartans, 11.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •oracle of klaros Found in books: Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 47 |
11. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 8.7.9 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 73 |
12. Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, 6.14.3-6.14.6 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 |
13. Porphyry, Philosophy From Oracles, 112-121 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 73 |
14. Hesychius of Alexandria, Lexicon, s.v. ἐναγίζειν (e 2586) (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 |
15. Theodosius Ii Emperor of Rome, Theodosian Code, 14xxx15xxx16 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •oracle of klaros Found in books: Versnel, Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology (2011) 46 |
18. Epigraphy, Kaibel, Eg, 1034 Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 61 |
19. Epigraphy, Ig Xi,2, 203a, 235, 32-57, 3 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 61 |
20. Epigraphy, Id, 440 a, 48, 38-39 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 61 |
21. Epigraphy, Ik, Xix- Die Inschriften Von Sestos Und Der Thrakischen Chersones (Krauss 1980), 11 Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 61, 73, 265 |
22. Kleidemos, Fgrhist 323, f14 Tagged with subjects: •klaros, oracle of apollon •oracle, of apollon at klaros Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 265 |