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10 results for "tyrant"

1. Sophocles, Antigone, 1271-1273, 1275, 174-190, 192-193, 213-214, 278, 449, 487, 59, 658-659, 847, 1274 (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, 731

2. Sophocles, Electra, 276 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tyrant, vs. king Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 749

3. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 785, 407 (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, 749

4. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 158-194, 196-215, 195 (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, 749

5. Xenophon, Memoirs, 4.4.19 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tyrant, vs. king Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 749

4.4.19. ἀγράφους δέ τινας οἶσθα, ἔφη, ὦ Ἱππία, νόμους; τούς γʼ ἐν πάσῃ, ἔφη, χώρᾳ κατὰ ταὐτὰ νομιζομένους. ἔχοις ἂν οὖν εἰπεῖν, ἔφη, ὅτι οἱ ἄνθρωποι αὐτοὺς ἔθεντο; καὶ πῶς ἄν, ἔφη, οἵ γε οὔτε συνελθεῖν ἅπαντες ἂν δυνηθεῖεν οὔτε ὁμόφωνοί εἰσι; τίνας οὖν, ἔφη, νομίζεις τεθεικέναι τοὺς νόμους τούτους; ἐγὼ μέν, ἔφη, θεοὺς οἶμαι τοὺς νόμους τούτους τοῖς ἀνθρώποις θεῖναι· καὶ γὰρ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις πρῶτον νομίζεται θεοὺς σέβειν.

4.4.19. Do you know what is meant by unwritten laws, Hippias? Yes, those that are uniformly observed in every country. Could you say that men made them? Nay, how could that be, seeing that they cannot all meet together and do not speak the same language? Then by whom have these laws been made, do you suppose? I think that the gods made these laws for men. For among all men the first law is to fear the gods.

6. Euripides, Hecuba, 254-255 (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, 731

255. ζηλοῦτε τιμάς: μηδὲ γιγνώσκοισθέ μοι,

7. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 5.1 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •kings, vs. tyrants •tyrant, vs. king Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731

8. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.13 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •tyrant, vs. king Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 749

9. Demosthenes, On The False Embassy, 247 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •kings, vs. tyrants •tyrant, vs. king Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731

10. Harpocration, Lexicon of The Ten Orators, None (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •kings, vs. tyrants •tyrant, vs. king Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 731

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