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20 results for "silence"
1. Homer, Iliad, 6.476-6.477 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 722
6.476. / and spake in prayer to Zeus and the other gods:Zeus and ye other gods, grant that this my child may likewise prove, even as I, pre-eminent amid the Trojans, and as valiant in might, and that he rule mightily over Ilios. And some day may some man say of him as he cometh back from war,‘He is better far than his father’; 6.477. / and spake in prayer to Zeus and the other gods:Zeus and ye other gods, grant that this my child may likewise prove, even as I, pre-eminent amid the Trojans, and as valiant in might, and that he rule mightily over Ilios. And some day may some man say of him as he cometh back from war,‘He is better far than his father’;
2. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 90 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 732
90. ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα, παμμῆτόρ τε γῆ, 90. infinite laughter of the waves of ocean, O universal mother Earth , and you, all-seeing orb of the sun, to you I call! See what I, a god, endure from the gods.
3. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 21, 20 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 722
20. Πυλάδη, σταθῶμεν ἐκποδών, ὡς ἂν σαφῶς 20. Pylades, let us stand apart,that I may know clearly what this band of suppliant women intends. Exit Orestes and Pylades. Enter Electra with women carrying libations. Chorus
4. Sophocles, Ajax, 1168, 1170, 293, 479-480, 501, 769, 896, 985-989, 1169 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 204
5. Euripides, Iphigenia At Aulis, 407 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 734
6. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 474 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •silence, of women •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 338
474. ξένοι, θράσος μοι μηδὲν ἐξόδοις ἐμαῖς 474. rend= I venture forth; this shall be my first request, for a woman’s fairest crown is this, to practise silence and discretion, and abide at home in peace. But when I heard thy lamentations, Iolaus, I came forth, albeit I was not appointed to take the lead in my family. Still in some sense am I fit to do so, for these my brothers are my chiefest care, and I fain would ask, as touching myself, whether some new trouble, added to the former woes, is gnawing at thy heart. Iolau
7. Euripides, Helen, 407 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 734
407. ἐσῆλθε λαῖφος ὥστε μ' ἐς πάτραν μολεῖν.
8. Democritus, Fragments, 274 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •silence, of women •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 338
9. Antiphon, The Murder of Herodes, 0 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 732
10. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 507, 515, 508 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 338
508. ὑπὸ σωφροσύνης τῆς ἡμετέρας τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἅττ' ἐποιεῖτε.
11. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 27 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 732
27. ἔσται προτιμῶς' οὐδέν: ὦ πόλις πόλις.
12. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 1144, 248-249, 25, 250-290, 464, 466-467, 490-492, 543, 552-553, 582-583, 719-722, 813-820, 465 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 341
13. Sophocles, Philoctetes, 251, 1347 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 734
14. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 1071, 1073-1079, 1288, 1359, 398, 427, 629, 634-636, 700, 716, 738, 862, 428 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 338
15. Sophocles, Electra, 1482, 15, 343-390, 58-60, 985, 16 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 204
16. Sophocles, Antigone, 1070-1072, 1191, 1246-1252, 1261-1276, 1282, 1303, 25, 441, 449-457, 502, 519, 72, 74, 806-810, 812-816, 870, 924, 937-943, 811 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 344
17. Aristophanes, Peace, 106, 629, 62 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 732
62. ὦ Ζεῦ τί δρασείεις ποθ' ἡμῶν τὸν λεών;
18. Aristotle, Politics, 1 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •silence, of women •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 338
19. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.1-11.14, 11.37-11.41, 11.77-11.84 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •orpheus and eurydice, silencing of ciconian women by bacchus Found in books: Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 99
11.1. Carmine dum tali silvas animosque ferarum 11.2. Threicius vates et saxa sequentia ducit, 11.3. ecce nurus Ciconum, tectae lymphata ferinis 11.4. pectora velleribus, tumuli de vertice cernunt 11.5. Orphea percussis sociantem carmina nervis. 11.6. E quibus una, leves iactato crine per auras, 11.7. “en,” ait “en hic est nostri contemptor!” et hastam 11.8. vatis Apollinei vocalia misit in ora, 11.9. quae foliis praesuta notam sine vulnere fecit; 11.10. alterius telum lapis est, qui missus in ipso 11.11. aere concentu victus vocisque lyraeque est 11.12. ac veluti supplex pro tam furialibus ausis 11.13. ante pedes iacuit. Sed enim temeraria crescunt 11.14. bella modusque abiit, insanaque regnat Erinys. 11.37. Quae postquam rapuere ferae cornuque minaci 11.38. divulsere boves, ad vatis fata recurrunt 11.39. Tendentemque manus et in illo tempore primum 11.40. inrita dicentem nec quicquam voce moventem 11.41. sacrilegae perimunt. Perque os, pro Iuppiter! illud 11.77. exsternata fugam frustra temptabat; at illam 11.78. lenta tenet radix exsultantemque coercet, 11.79. dumque ubi sint digiti, dum pes ubi, quaerit, et ungues, 11.80. adspicit in teretes lignum succedere suras, 11.81. et conata femur maerenti plangere dextra, 11.82. robora percussit: pectus quoque robora fiunt, 11.83. robora sunt umeri, porrectaque bracchia veros 11.84. esse putes ramos, et non fallere putando.
20. Plutarch, How To Tell A Flatterer From A Friend, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •women, silence of Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 734