1. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1014, 504 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 121| 504. οὕτω γὰρ οὐ τέθνηκας οὐδὲ περ θανών· | 504. So listen, father, to this last appeal of mine as you behold these fledglings crouching at your tomb. Have compassion on your offspring, on the woman and on the man as well, and let not this seed of Pelops’ line be blotted out: for then, in spite of death, you are not dead. |
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2. Aristophanes, Frogs, 354, 356-357, 355 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 176 355. ὅστις ἄπειρος τοιῶνδε λόγων ἢ γνώμῃ μὴ καθαρεύει, 355. > | |
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3. Aristophanes, Wasps, 489-492, 488 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 100| 488. ὡς ἅπανθ' ὑμῖν τυραννίς ἐστι καὶ ξυνωμόται, | |
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4. Euripides, Bacchae, 100-129, 131-135, 208, 39, 726-727, 748, 89-99, 130 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 157| 130. παρὰ δὲ μαινόμενοι Σάτυροι | 130. nearby, raving Satyrs were fulfilling the rites of the mother goddess, and they joined it to the dances of the biennial festivals, in which Dionysus rejoices. Choru |
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5. Plato, Laws, 700b (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tragedy, origins of Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 157| 700b. ἑαυτῆς ἄττα καὶ σχήματα, καί τι ἦν εἶδος ᾠδῆς εὐχαὶ πρὸς θεούς, ὄνομα δὲ ὕμνοι ἐπεκαλοῦντο· καὶ τούτῳ δὴ τὸ ἐναντίον ἦν ᾠδῆς ἕτερον εἶδος—θρήνους δέ τις ἂν αὐτοὺς μάλιστα ἐκάλεσεν—καὶ παίωνες ἕτερον, καὶ ἄλλο, Διονύσου γένεσις οἶμαι, διθύραμβος λεγόμενος. νόμους τε αὐτὸ τοῦτο τοὔνομα ἐκάλουν, ᾠδὴν ὥς τινα ἑτέραν· ἐπέλεγον δὲ κιθαρῳδικούς. τούτων δὴ διατεταγμένων καὶ ἄλλων τινῶν, οὐκ ἐξῆν ἄλλο | 700b. one class of song was that of prayers to the gods, which bore the name of hymns ; contrasted with this was another class, best called dirges ; paeans formed another; and yet another was the dithyramb, named, I fancy, after Dionysus. Nomes also were so called as being a distinct class of song; and these were further described as citharoedic nomes. So these and other kinds being classified and fixed, it was forbidden to set one kind of words to a different class of tune. |
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6. Plato, Phaedrus, 247a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tragedy, origins of Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 176| 247a. κατὰ ἕνδεκα μέρη κεκοσμημένη. μένει γὰρ Ἑστία ἐν θεῶν οἴκῳ μόνη· τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ὅσοι ἐν τῷ τῶν δώδεκα ἀριθμῷ τεταγμένοι θεοὶ ἄρχοντες ἡγοῦνται κατὰ τάξιν ἣν ἕκαστος ἐτάχθη. πολλαὶ μὲν οὖν καὶ μακάριαι θέαι τε καὶ διέξοδοι ἐντὸς οὐρανοῦ, ἃς θεῶν γένος εὐδαιμόνων ἐπιστρέφεται πράττων ἕκαστος αὐτῶν τὸ αὑτοῦ, ἕπεται δὲ ὁ ἀεὶ ἐθέλων τε καὶ δυνάμενος· φθόνος γὰρ ἔξω θείου χοροῦ ἵσταται. ὅταν δὲ δὴ πρὸς δαῖτα καὶ ἐπὶ θοίνην ἴωσιν, ἄκραν ἐπὶ τὴν | 247a. He is followed by an army of gods and spirits, arrayed in eleven squadrons; Hestia alone remains in the house of the gods. of the rest, those who are included among the twelve great gods and are accounted leaders, are assigned each to his place in the army. There are many blessed sights and many ways hither and thither within the heaven, along which the blessed gods go to and fro attending each to his own duties; and whoever wishes, and is able, follows, for jealousy is excluded from the celestial band. But when they go to a feast and a banquet, they proceed steeply upward to the top of the vault of heaven, where the chariots of the gods, whose well matched horses obey the rein, advance easily, but the others with difficulty; for the horse of evil nature weighs the chariot down, making it heavy and pulling toward the earth the charioteer whose horse is not well trained. There the utmost toil and struggle await the soul. For those that are called immortal, when they reach the top, pass outside and take their place on the outer surface of the heaven, and when they have taken their stand, the revolution carries them round and they behold the things outside of the heaven. But the region above the heaven was never worthily sung by any earthly poet, nor will it ever be. It is, however, as I shall tell; for I must dare to speak the truth, especially as truth is my theme. For the colorless, formless, and intangible truly existing essence, with which all true knowledge is concerned, holds this region and is visible only to the mind, the pilot of the soul. Now the divine intelligence, since it is nurtured on mind and pure knowledge, and the intelligence of every soul which is capable of receiving that which befits it, rejoices in seeing reality for a space of time and by gazing upon truth is nourished and made happy until the revolution brings it again to the same place. In the revolution it beholds absolute justice, temperance, and knowledge, not such knowledge as has a beginning and varies as it is associated with one or another of the things we call realities, but that which abides in the real eternal absolute; and in the same way it beholds and feeds upon the other eternal verities, after which, passing down again within the heaven, it goes home, and there the charioteer puts up the horses at the manger and feeds them with ambrosia and then gives them nectar to drink. Such is the life of the gods; but of the other souls, 247a. He is followed by an army of gods and spirits, arrayed in eleven squadrons; Hestia alone remains in the house of the gods. of the rest, those who are included among the twelve great gods and are accounted leaders, are assigned each to his place in the army. There are many blessed sights and many ways hither and thither within the heaven, along which the blessed gods go to and fro attending each to his own duties; and whoever wishes, and is able, follows, for jealousy is excluded from the celestial band. But when they go to a feast and a banquet, |
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| 7. Antiphanes, Fragments, 55 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tragedy, origins of Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 157 |
| 8. Antiphanes, Fragments, 55 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tragedy, origins of Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 157 |
| 9. Aristotle, Poetics, 1449a12, 1449a13, 1449a14, 1449a15, 1449a16, 1449a17, 1449a18, 1449a19, 1449a20, 1449a21, 1449a11 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford, Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays (2018) 157 |
