1. Homer, Iliad, 5.338, 6.297-6.311, 14.295-14.296, 14.346-14.347, 18.382 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity •weddings and marriages, “sacred wedding” of zeus and hera Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 162; Simon (2021) 51, 52, 53, 261 | 5.338. / then the son of great-souled Tydeus thrust with his sharp spear and leapt upon her, and wounded the surface of her delicate hand, and forthwith through the ambrosial raiment that the Graces themselves had wrought for her the spear pierced the flesh upon the wrist above the palm and forth flowed the immortal blood of the goddess, 6.297. / and shone like a star, and lay undermost of all. Then she went her way, and the throng of aged wives hastened after her. 6.298. / and shone like a star, and lay undermost of all. Then she went her way, and the throng of aged wives hastened after her. 6.299. / and shone like a star, and lay undermost of all. Then she went her way, and the throng of aged wives hastened after her. Now when they were come to the temple of Athene in the citadel, the doors were opened for them by fair-cheeked Theano, daughter of Cisseus, the wife of Antenor, tamer of horses; 6.300. / for her had the Trojans made priestess of Athene. Then with sacred cries they all lifted up their hands to Athene; and fair-cheeked Theano took the robe and laid it upon the knees of fair-haired Athene, and with vows made prayer to the daughter of great Zeus: 6.301. / for her had the Trojans made priestess of Athene. Then with sacred cries they all lifted up their hands to Athene; and fair-cheeked Theano took the robe and laid it upon the knees of fair-haired Athene, and with vows made prayer to the daughter of great Zeus: 6.302. / for her had the Trojans made priestess of Athene. Then with sacred cries they all lifted up their hands to Athene; and fair-cheeked Theano took the robe and laid it upon the knees of fair-haired Athene, and with vows made prayer to the daughter of great Zeus: 6.303. / for her had the Trojans made priestess of Athene. Then with sacred cries they all lifted up their hands to Athene; and fair-cheeked Theano took the robe and laid it upon the knees of fair-haired Athene, and with vows made prayer to the daughter of great Zeus: 6.304. / for her had the Trojans made priestess of Athene. Then with sacred cries they all lifted up their hands to Athene; and fair-cheeked Theano took the robe and laid it upon the knees of fair-haired Athene, and with vows made prayer to the daughter of great Zeus: 6.305. / Lady Athene, that dost guard our city, fairest among goddesses, break now the spear of Diomedes, and grant furthermore that himself may fall headlong before the Scaean gates; to the end that we may now forthwith sacrifice to thee in thy temple twelve sleek heifers that have not felt the goad, if thou wilt take pity 6.306. / Lady Athene, that dost guard our city, fairest among goddesses, break now the spear of Diomedes, and grant furthermore that himself may fall headlong before the Scaean gates; to the end that we may now forthwith sacrifice to thee in thy temple twelve sleek heifers that have not felt the goad, if thou wilt take pity 6.307. / Lady Athene, that dost guard our city, fairest among goddesses, break now the spear of Diomedes, and grant furthermore that himself may fall headlong before the Scaean gates; to the end that we may now forthwith sacrifice to thee in thy temple twelve sleek heifers that have not felt the goad, if thou wilt take pity 6.308. / Lady Athene, that dost guard our city, fairest among goddesses, break now the spear of Diomedes, and grant furthermore that himself may fall headlong before the Scaean gates; to the end that we may now forthwith sacrifice to thee in thy temple twelve sleek heifers that have not felt the goad, if thou wilt take pity 6.309. / Lady Athene, that dost guard our city, fairest among goddesses, break now the spear of Diomedes, and grant furthermore that himself may fall headlong before the Scaean gates; to the end that we may now forthwith sacrifice to thee in thy temple twelve sleek heifers that have not felt the goad, if thou wilt take pity 6.310. / on Troy and the Trojans' wives and their little children. So spake she praying, but Pallas Athene denied the prayer.Thus were these praying to the daughter of great Zeus, but Hector went his way to the palace of Alexander, the fair palace that himself had builded with the men 6.311. / on Troy and the Trojans' wives and their little children. So spake she praying, but Pallas Athene denied the prayer.Thus were these praying to the daughter of great Zeus, but Hector went his way to the palace of Alexander, the fair palace that himself had builded with the men 14.295. / even as when at the first they had gone to the couch and had dalliance together in love, their dear parents knowing naught thereof. And he stood before her, and spake, and addressed her:Hera, with what desire art thou thus come hither down from Olympus? Lo, thy horses are not at hand, neither thy chariot, whereon thou mightest mount. 14.296. / even as when at the first they had gone to the couch and had dalliance together in love, their dear parents knowing naught thereof. And he stood before her, and spake, and addressed her:Hera, with what desire art thou thus come hither down from Olympus? Lo, thy horses are not at hand, neither thy chariot, whereon thou mightest mount. 14.346. / albeit his sight is the keenest of all for beholding. Therewith the son of Cronos clasped his wife in his arms, and beneath them the divine earth made fresh-sprung grass to grow, and dewy lotus, and crocus, and hyacinth, thick and soft, that upbare them from the ground. 14.347. / albeit his sight is the keenest of all for beholding. Therewith the son of Cronos clasped his wife in his arms, and beneath them the divine earth made fresh-sprung grass to grow, and dewy lotus, and crocus, and hyacinth, thick and soft, that upbare them from the ground. 18.382. / And while he laboured thereat with cunning skill, meanwhile there drew nigh to him the goddess, silver-footed Thetis. And Charis of the gleaming veil came forward and marked her—fair Charis, whom the famed god of the two strong arms had wedded. And she clasped her by the hand, and spake, and addressed her: |
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2. Homeric Hymns, To Apollo And The Muses, 195, 351-352, 194 (8th cent. BCE - 8th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon (2021) 261 | 194. And the delightful town on the seaboard, |
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3. Homeric Hymns, To Hermes, 117, 116 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon (2021) 100 | 116. To seek the art of fire. He took a stout |
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4. Homeric Hymns, To Aphrodite, 209, 36-37, 61 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon (2021) 261 | 61. The Graces bathed her with the oil that’s seen |
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| 5. Homer, Odyssey, 8.267, 8.296-8.297, 8.318, 8.362-8.363, 19.518-19.523 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of •weddings and marriage, of orpheus and eurydice •weddings and marriage, of procne and tereus Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 92, 141; Simon (2021) 261, 283 |
6. Hesiod, Works And Days, 73-74, 568 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 141 | 568. To brighten). That’s the time the hornèd and |
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| 7. Hesiod, Fragments, 312 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, of procne and tereus Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 141 |
| 8. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 21-22 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon (2021) 19 |
| 9. Pindar, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 20 |
| 10. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 1.13 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, peirithoos, centaurs at wedding of Found in books: Simon (2021) 162 |
| 11. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 55-56 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon (2021) 237 |
| 12. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 4.109 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of Found in books: Simon (2021) 237 |
13. Herodotus, Histories, 1.199, 2.50, 6.137-6.138 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, paestum, birth of aphrodite on wedding vase from •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of Found in books: Simon (2021) 237, 261, 272 | 1.199. The foulest Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. ,But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. ,Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta” (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). ,It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. ,So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfill the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus . 2.50. In fact, the names of nearly all the gods came to Hellas from Egypt . For I am convinced by inquiry that they have come from foreign parts, and I believe that they came chiefly from Egypt . ,Except the names of Poseidon and the Dioscuri, as I have already said, and Hera, and Hestia, and Themis, and the Graces, and the Nereids, the names of all the gods have always existed in Egypt . I only say what the Egyptians themselves say. The gods whose names they say they do not know were, as I think, named by the Pelasgians, except Poseidon, the knowledge of whom they learned from the Libyans. ,Alone of all nations the Libyans have had among them the name of Poseidon from the beginning, and they have always honored this god. The Egyptians, however, are not accustomed to pay any honors to heroes. 6.137. Miltiades son of Cimon took possession of Lemnos in this way: When the Pelasgians were driven out of Attica by the Athenians, whether justly or unjustly I cannot say, beyond what is told; namely, that Hecataeus the son of Hegesandrus declares in his history that the act was unjust; ,for when the Athenians saw the land under Hymettus, formerly theirs, which they had given to the Pelasgians as a dwelling-place in reward for the wall that had once been built around the acropolis—when the Athenians saw how well this place was tilled which previously had been bad and worthless, they were envious and coveted the land, and so drove the Pelasgians out on this and no other pretext. But the Athenians themselves say that their reason for expelling the Pelasgians was just. ,The Pelasgians set out from their settlement at the foot of Hymettus and wronged the Athenians in this way: Neither the Athenians nor any other Hellenes had servants yet at that time, and their sons and daughters used to go to the Nine Wells for water; and whenever they came, the Pelasgians maltreated them out of mere arrogance and pride. And this was not enough for them; finally they were caught in the act of planning to attack Athens. ,The Athenians were much better men than the Pelasgians, since when they could have killed them, caught plotting as they were, they would not so do, but ordered them out of the country. The Pelasgians departed and took possession of Lemnos, besides other places. This is the Athenian story; the other is told by Hecataeus. 6.138. These Pelasgians dwelt at that time in Lemnos and desired vengeance on the Athenians. Since they well knew the time of the Athenian festivals, they acquired fifty-oared ships and set an ambush for the Athenian women celebrating the festival of Artemis at Brauron. They seized many of the women, then sailed away with them and brought them to Lemnos to be their concubines. ,These women bore more and more children, and they taught their sons the speech of Attica and Athenian manners. These boys would not mix with the sons of the Pelasgian women; if one of them was beaten by one of the others, they would all run to his aid and help each other; these boys even claimed to rule the others, and were much stronger. ,When the Pelasgians perceived this, they took counsel together; it troubled them much in their deliberations to think what the boys would do when they grew to manhood, if they were resolved to help each other against the sons of the lawful wives and attempted to rule them already. ,Thereupon the Pelasgians resolved to kill the sons of the Attic women; they did this, and then killed the boys' mothers also. From this deed and the earlier one which was done by the women when they killed their own husbands who were Thoas' companions, a “Lemnian crime” has been a proverb in Hellas for any deed of cruelty. |
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14. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 3.1202-3.1206 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 162, 253| 3.1202. ἀνθρώπων, καθαρῇσιν ὑπεύδιος εἱαμενῇσιν, 3.1203. ἔνθʼ ἤτοι πάμπρωτα λοέσσατο μὲν ποταμοῖο 3.1204. εὐαγέως θείοιο τέρεν δέμας· ἀμφὶ δὲ φᾶρος 3.1205. ἕσσατο κυάνεον, τό ῥά οἱ πάρος ἐγγυάλιξεν 3.1206. Λημνιὰς Ὑψιπύλη, ἀδινῆς μνημήιον εὐνῆς. | |
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15. Polybius, Histories, 6.53.1 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites •weddings and marriage, of procne and tereus Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 236| 6.53.1. ὅταν γὰρ μεταλλάξῃ τις παρʼ αὐτοῖς τῶν ἐπιφανῶν ἀνδρῶν, συντελουμένης τῆς ἐκφορᾶς κομίζεται μετὰ τοῦ λοιποῦ κόσμου πρὸς τοὺς καλουμένους ἐμβόλους εἰς τὴν ἀγορὰν ποτὲ μὲν ἑστὼς ἐναργής, σπανίως δὲ κατακεκλιμένος. | 6.53.1. Whenever any illustrious man dies, he is carried at his funeral into the forum to the soâcalled rostra, sometimes conspicuous in an upright posture and more rarely reclined. |
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| 16. Cicero, Letters, 12.22.2 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites •weddings and marriage, of procne and tereus Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 236 |
| 17. Cicero, In Verrem, 2.5.118 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites •weddings and marriage, of procne and tereus Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 236 |
| 18. Catullus, Poems, 65.12-65.15 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, of orpheus and eurydice Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 92 |
19. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.6, 6.423-6.425, 6.428-6.432, 6.481-6.482, 6.531-6.534, 6.537-6.538, 6.592-6.593, 6.595-6.598, 6.621-6.622, 6.631-6.632, 6.634-6.635, 6.640-6.646, 9.666-9.797, 10.1-10.85, 11.1-11.84 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity •weddings and marriage, of procne and tereus •weddings and marriage, of orpheus and eurydice •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 89, 90, 91, 92, 98, 141, 142, 144, 152| 6.6. quam sibi lanificae non cedere laudibus artis 6.423. barbara Mopsopios terrebant agmina muros. 6.424. Threicius Tereus haec auxiliaribus armis 6.425. fuderat et clarum vincendo nomen habebat. 6.428. conubio Procnes iunxit. Non pronuba Iuno, 6.429. non Hymenaeus adest, non illi Gratia lecto. 6.430. Eumenides tenuere faces de funere raptas, 6.431. Eumenides stravere torum, tectoque profanus 6.432. incubuit bubo thalamique in culmine sedit. 6.481. accipit; et quotiens amplectitur illa parentem, 6.482. esse parens vellet: neque enim minus impius esset. 6.531. Mox ubi mens rediit, passos laniata capillos, 6.532. lugenti similis, caesis plangore lacertis, 6.533. intendens palmas “o diris barbare factis, 6.534. o crudelis” ait “nec te mandata parentis 6.537. Omnia turbasti: paelex ego facta sororis, 6.538. tu geminus coniunx, hostis mihi debita Procne. 6.592. Vite caput tegitur, lateri cervina sinistro 6.593. vellera dependent, umero levis incubat hasta. 6.595. terribilis Procne furiisque agitata doloris, 6.596. Bacche, tuas simulat. Venit ad stabula avia tandem 6.597. exululatque euhoeque sonat portasque refringit 6.598. germanamque rapit; raptaeque insignia Bacchi 6.621. admonita est: oculisque tuens inmitibus “a quam 6.622. es similis patri” dixit. Nec plura locuta 6.631. inque vicem spectans ambos “cur admovet” inquit 6.632. “alter blanditias, rapta silet altera lingua? 6.634. Cui sis nupta, vide, Pandione nata, marito. 6.635. Degeneras: scelus est pietas in coniuge Tereo.” 6.640. et “mater, mater” clamantem et colla petentem 6.641. ense ferit Procne, lateri qua pectus adhaeret, 6.642. nec vultum vertit. Satis illi ad fata vel unum 6.643. vulnus erat: iugulum ferro Philomela resolvit. 6.644. Vivaque adhuc animaeque aliquid retinentia membra 6.645. dilaniant. Pars inde cavis exsultat aenis, 6.646. pars veribus stridunt: mat penetralia tabo. 9.666. Fama novi centum Cretaeas forsitan urbes 9.667. implesset monstri, si non miracula nuper 9.668. Iphide mutata Crete propiora tulisset. 9.669. Proxima Cnosiaco nam quondam Phaestia regno 9.670. progenuit tellus ignotum nomine Ligdum, 9.671. ingenua de plebe virum. Nec census in illo 9.672. nobilitate sua maior, sed vita fidesque 9.673. inculpata fuit. Gravidae qui coniugis aures 9.674. vocibus his monuit, cum iam prope partus adesset: 9.675. “Quae voveam, duo sunt; minimo ut relevere dolore, 9.676. utque marem parias; onerosior altera sors est, 9.677. et vires fortuna negat. Quod abominor, ergo 9.678. edita forte tuo fuerit si femina partu, 9.679. (invitus mando: pietas, ignosce!) necetur.” 9.680. Dixerat, et lacrimis vultus lavere profusis, 9.681. tam qui mandabat, quam cui mandata dabantur. 9.682. Sed tamen usque suum vanis Telethusa maritum 9.683. sollicitat precibus, ne spem sibi ponat in arto. 9.684. Certa sua est Ligdo sententia. Iamque ferendo 9.685. vix erat illa gravem maturo pondere ventrem, 9.686. cum medio noctis spatio sub imagine somni 9.687. Inachis ante torum, pompa comitata sacrorum, 9.688. aut stetit aut visa est. Inerant lunaria fronti 9.689. cornua cum spicis nitido flaventibus auro 9.690. et regale decus. Cum qua latrator Anubis 9.691. sanctaque Bubastis variusque coloribus Apis, 9.692. quique premit vocem digitoque silentia suadet, 9.693. sistraque erant numquamque satis quaesitus Osiris 9.694. plenaque somniferis serpens peregrina venenis. 9.695. Tum velut excussam somno et manifesta videntem 9.696. sic adfata dea est: “Pars o Telethusa mearum, 9.697. pone graves curas mandataque falle mariti. 9.698. Nec dubita, cum te partu Lucina levarit, 9.699. tollere quidquid erit. Dea sum auxiliaris opemque 9.700. exorata fero, nec te coluisse quereris 9.701. ingratum numen.” Monuit thalamoque recessit. 9.702. Laeta toro surgit purasque ad sidera supplex 9.703. Cressa manus tollens, rata sint sua visa, precatur. 9.704. Ut dolor increvit, seque ipsum pondus in auras 9.705. expulit et nata est ignaro femina patre, 9.706. iussit ali mater puerum mentita: fidemque 9.707. res habuit, neque erat ficti nisi conscia nutrix. 9.708. Vota pater solvit nomenque inponit avitum: 9.709. Iphis avus fuerat. Gavisa est nomine mater, 9.710. quod commune foret nec quemquam falleret illo. 9.711. Inde incepta pia mendacia fraude latebant: 9.712. cultus erat pueri, facies, quam sive puellae, 9.713. sive dares puero, fuerat formosus uterque. 9.714. Tertius interea decimo successerat annus, 9.715. cum pater, Iphi, tibi flavam despondet Ianthen, 9.716. inter Phaestiadas quae laudatissima formae 9.717. dote fuit virgo, Dictaeo nata Teleste. 9.718. Par aetas, par forma fuit, primasque magistris 9.719. accepere artes, elementa aetatis, ab isdem. 9.720. Hinc amor ambarum tetigit rude pectus et aequum 9.721. vulnus utrique dedit. Sed erat fiducia dispar: 9.722. coniugium pactaeque exspectat tempora taedae 9.723. quamque virum putat esse, virum fore credit Ianthe; 9.724. Iphis amat, qua posse frui desperat, et auget 9.725. hoc ipsum flammas, ardetque in virgine virgo; 9.726. vixque tenens lacrimas “quis me manet exitus” inquit, 9.727. “cognita quam nulli, quam prodigiosa novaeque 9.728. cura tenet Veneris? Si di mihi parcere vellent, 9.729. parcere debuerant; si non, et perdere vellent, 9.730. naturale malum saltem et de more dedissent. 9.731. Nec vaccam vaccae, nec equas amor urit equarum: 9.732. urit oves aries, sequitur sua femina cervum. 9.733. Sic et aves coeunt, interque animalia cuncta 9.734. femina femineo conrepta cupidine nulla est. 9.735. Vellem nulla forem! Ne non tamen omnia Crete 9.736. monstra ferat, taurum dilexit filia Solis, 9.737. femina nempe marem: meus est furiosior illo, 9.738. si verum profitemur, amor! Tamen illa secuta est 9.739. spem Veneris, tamen illa dolis et imagine vaccae 9.740. passa bovem est, et erat, qui deciperetur adulter! 9.741. Huc licet e toto sollertia confluat orbe, 9.742. ipse licet revolet ceratis Daedalus alis, 9.743. quid faciet? Num me puerum de virgine doctis 9.744. artibus efficiet? num te mutabit, Ianthe? 9.745. Quin animum firmas, teque ipsa reconligis, Iphi, 9.746. consiliique inopes et stultos excutis ignes? 9.747. Quid sis nata, vide, nisi te quoque decipis ipsa, 9.748. et pete quod fas est, et ama quod femina debes! 9.749. Spes est, quae capiat, spes est, quae pascit amorem: 9.750. hanc tibi res adimit. Non te custodia caro 9.751. arcet ab amplexu nec cauti cura mariti, 9.752. non patris asperitas, non se negat ipsa roganti: 9.753. nec tamen est potienda tibi, nec, ut omnia fiant, 9.754. esse potes felix, ut dique hominesque laborent. 9.755. Nunc quoque votorum nulla est pars vana meorum, 9.756. dique mihi faciles, quidquid valuere, dederunt; 9.757. quodque ego, vult genitor, vult ipsa socerque futurus. 9.758. At non vult natura, potentior omnibus istis, 9.759. quae mihi sola nocet. Venit ecce optabile tempus, 9.760. luxque iugalis adest, et iam mea fiet Ianthe— 9.761. nec mihi continget: mediis sitiemus in undis. 9.762. Pronuba quid Iuno, quid ad haec, Hymenaee, venitis 9.763. sacra, quibus qui ducat abest, ubi nubimus ambae?” 9.764. Pressit ab his vocem. Nec lenius altera virgo 9.765. aestuat, utque celer venias, Hymenaee, precatur. 9.766. Quod petit haec, Telethusa timens modo tempora differt, 9.767. nunc ficto languore moram trahit, omina saepe 9.768. visaque causatur. Sed iam consumpserat omnem 9.769. materiam ficti, dilataque tempora taedae 9.770. institerant, unusque dies restabat. At illa 9.771. crinalem capiti vittam nataeque sibique 9.772. detrahit et passis aram complexa capillis 9.773. “Isi, Paraetonium Mareoticaque arva Pharonque 9.774. quae colis et septem digestum in cornua Nilum: 9.775. fer, precor” inquit “opem nostroque medere timori! 9.776. Te, dea, te quondam tuaque haec insignia vidi 9.777. cunctaque cognovi, sonitum comitantiaque aera 9.778. sistrorum, memorique animo tua iussa notavi. 9.779. Quod videt haec lucem, quod non ego punior, ecce 9.780. consilium munusque tuum est. Miserere duarum 9.781. auxilioque iuva!” Lacrimae sunt verba secutae. 9.782. Visa dea est movisse suas (et moverat) aras, 9.783. et templi tremuere fores, imitataque lunam 9.784. cornua fulserunt, crepuitque sonabile sistrum. 9.785. Non secura quidem, fausto tamen omine laeta 9.786. mater abit templo: sequitur comes Iphis euntem, 9.787. quam solita est, maiore gradu, nec candor in ore 9.788. permanet, et vires augentur, et acrior ipse est 9.789. vultus, et incomptis brevior mensura capillis, 9.790. plusque vigoris adest, habuit quam femina. Nam quae 9.791. femina nuper eras, puer es. Date munera templis 9.792. nec timida gaudete fide! Dant munera templis, 9.793. addunt et titulum; titulus breve carmen habebat: 9.794. DONA PUER SOLVIT QUAE FEMINA VOVERAT IPHIS 9.795. Postera lux radiis latum patefecerat orbem, 9.796. cum Venus et Iuno sociosque Hymenaeus ad ignes 9.797. conveniunt, potiturque sua puer Iphis Ianthe. 10.1. Inde per inmensum croceo velatus amictu 10.2. aethera digreditur Ciconumque Hymenaeus ad oras 10.3. tendit et Orphea nequiquam voce vocatur. 10.4. Adfuit ille quidem, sed nec sollemnia verba 10.5. nec laetos vultus nec felix attulit omen. 10.6. Fax quoque, quam tenuit, lacrimoso stridula fumo 10.7. usque fuit nullosque invenit motibus ignes. 10.8. Exitus auspicio gravior: nam nupta per herbas 10.9. dum nova naiadum turba comitata vagatur, 10.10. occidit in talum serpentis dente recepto. 10.11. Quam satis ad superas postquam Rhodopeius auras 10.12. deflevit vates, ne non temptaret et umbras, 10.13. ad Styga Taenaria est ausus descendere porta; 10.14. perque leves populos simulacraque functa sepulcro 10.15. Persephonen adiit inamoenaque regna tenentem 10.16. umbrarum dominum. Pulsisque ad carmina nervis 10.17. sic ait: “O positi sub terra numina mundi, 10.18. in quem reccidimus, quidquid mortale creamur, 10.19. si licet et falsi positis ambagibus oris 10.20. vera loqui sinitis, non huc, ut opaca viderem 10.21. Tartara, descendi, nec uti villosa colubris 10.22. terna Medusaei vincirem guttura monstri: 10.23. causa viae est coniunx, in quam calcata venenum 10.24. vipera diffudit crescentesque abstulit annos. 10.25. Posse pati volui nec me temptasse negabo: 10.26. vicit Amor. Supera deus hic bene notus in ora est, 10.27. an sit et hic, dubito. Sed et hic tamen auguror esse; 10.28. famaque si veteris non est mentita rapinae, 10.29. vos quoque iunxit Amor. Per ego haec loca plena timoris, 10.30. per chaos hoc ingens vastique silentia regni, 10.31. Eurydices, oro, properata retexite fata. 10.32. Omnia debemur vobis, paulumque morati 10.33. serius aut citius sedem properamus ad unam. 10.34. Tendimus huc omnes, haec est domus ultima, vosque 10.35. humani generis longissima regna tenetis. 10.36. Haec quoque, cum iustos matura peregerit annos, 10.37. iuris erit vestri: pro munere poscimus usum. 10.38. Quod si fata negant veniam pro coniuge, certum est 10.39. nolle redire mihi: leto gaudete duorum.” 10.40. Talia dicentem nervosque ad verba moventem 10.41. exsangues flebant animae: nec Tantalus undam 10.42. captavit refugam, stupuitque Ixionis orbis, 10.43. nec carpsere iecur volucres, urnisque vacarunt 10.44. Belides, inque tuo sedisti, Sisyphe, saxo. 10.45. Tunc primum lacrimis victarum carmine fama est 10.46. Eumenidum maduisse genas. Nec regia coniunx 10.47. sustinet oranti nec qui regit ima negare, 10.48. Eurydicenque vocant. Umbras erat illa recentes 10.49. inter et incessit passu de vulnere tardo. 10.50. Hanc simul et legem Rhodopeius accipit Orpheus, 10.51. ne flectat retro sua lumina, donec Avernas 10.52. exierit valles: aut inrita dona futura. 10.53. Carpitur acclivis per muta silentia trames, 10.54. arduus, obscurus, caligine densus opaca. 10.55. Nec procul afuerunt telluris margine summae: 10.56. hic, ne deficeret, metuens avidusque videndi 10.57. flexit amans oculos; et protinus illa relapsa est, 10.58. bracchiaque intendens prendique et prendere certans 10.59. nil nisi cedentes infelix arripit auras. 10.60. Iamque iterum moriens non est de coniuge quicquam 10.61. questa suo: quid enim nisi se quereretur amatam? 10.62. Supremumque “vale,” quod iam vix auribus ille 10.63. acciperet, dixit revolutaque rursus eodem est. 10.64. Non aliter stupuit gemina nece coniugis Orpheus, 10.65. quam tria qui timidus, medio portante catenas, 10.66. colla canis vidit, quem non pavor ante reliquit, 10.67. quam natura prior, saxo per corpus oborto; 10.68. quique in se crimen traxit voluitque videri 10.69. Olenos esse nocens, tuque, o confisa figurae, 10.70. infelix Lethaea, tuae, iunctissima quondam 10.71. pectora, nunc lapides, quos umida sustinet Ide. 10.72. Orantem frustraque iterum transire volentem 10.73. portitor arcuerat. Septem tamen ille diebus 10.74. squalidus in ripa Cereris sine munere sedit: 10.75. cura dolorque animi lacrimaeque alimenta fuere. 10.76. Esse deos Erebi crudeles questus, in altam 10.77. se recipit Rhodopen pulsumque aquilonibus Haemum. 10.78. Tertius aequoreis inclusum piscibus annum 10.79. finierat Titan, omnemque refugerat Orpheus 10.80. femineam venerem, seu quod male cesserat illi, 10.81. sive fidem dederat. Multas tamen ardor habebat 10.82. iungere se vati, multae doluere repulsae. 10.83. Ille etiam Thracum populis fuit auctor amorem 10.84. in teneros transferre mares citraque iuventam 10.85. aetatis breve ver et primos carpere flores. 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. 11.15. Cunctaque tela forent cantu mollita, sed ingens 11.16. clamor et infracto Berecyntia tibia cornu 11.17. tympanaque et plausus et Bacchei ululatus 11.18. obstrepuere sono citharae: tum denique saxa 11.19. non exauditi rubuerunt sanguine vatis. 11.20. Ac primum attonitas etiamnum voce canentis 11.21. innumeras volucres anguesque agmenque ferarum 11.22. Maenades, Orphei titulum, rapuere, theatri. 11.23. Inde cruentatis vertuntur in Orphea dextris 11.24. et coeunt ut aves, si quando luce vagantem 11.25. noctis avem cernunt. Structoque utrimque theatro 11.26. ceu matutina cervus periturus harena 11.27. praeda canum est, vatemque petunt et fronde virentes 11.28. coniciunt thyrsos non haec in munera factos. 11.29. Hae glaebas, illae direptos arbore ramos, 11.30. pars torquent silices. Neu desint tela furori, 11.31. forte boves presso subigebant vomere terram, 11.32. nec procul hinc multo fructum sudore parantes 11.33. dura lacertosi fodiebant arva coloni. 11.34. Agmine qui viso fugiunt operisque relinquunt 11.35. arma sui, vacuosque iacent dispersa per agros 11.36. sarculaque rastrique graves longique ligones. 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 11.42. auditum saxis intellectumque ferarum 11.43. sensibus in ventos anima exhalata recessit. 11.44. Te maestae volucres, Orpheu, te turba ferarum, 11.45. te rigidi silices, tua carmina saepe secutae 11.46. fleverunt silvae, positis te frondibus arbor 11.47. tonsa comas luxit. Lacrimis quoque flumina dicunt 11.48. increvisse suis, obstrusaque carbasa pullo 11.49. naides et dryades passosque habuere capillos. 11.50. Membra iacent diversa locis. Caput, Hebre, lyramque 11.51. excipis, et (mirum!) medio dum labitur amne, 11.52. flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua 11.53. murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae. 11.54. Iamque mare invectae flumen populare relinquunt 11.55. et Methymnaeae potiuntur litore Lesbi. 11.56. Hic ferus expositum peregrinis anguis harenis 11.57. os petit et sparsos stillanti rore capillos. 11.58. Tandem Phoebus adest morsusque inferre parantem 11.59. arcet et in lapidem rictus serpentis apertos 11.60. congelat et patulos, ut erant, indurat hiatus. 11.61. Umbra subit terras et quae loca viderat ante, 11.62. cuncta recognoscit quaerensque per arva piorum 11.63. invenit Eurydicen cupidisque amplectitur ulnis. 11.64. Hic modo coniunctis spatiantur passibus ambo, 11.65. nunc praecedentem sequitur, nunc praevius anteit 11.66. Eurydicenque suam iam tutus respicit Orpheus. 11.67. Non impune tamen scelus hoc sinit esse Lyaeus, 11.68. amissoque dolens sacrorum vate suorum 11.69. protinus in silvis matres Edonidas omnes, 11.70. quae videre nefas, torta radice ligavit. 11.71. Quippe pedum digitos, in quantum est quaeque secuta, 11.72. traxit et in solidam detrusit acumina terram, 11.73. utque suum laqueis, quos callidus abdidit auceps, 11.74. crus ubi commisit volucris sensitque teneri, 11.75. plangitur ac trepidans adstringit vincula motu: 11.76. sic, ut quaeque solo defixa cohaeserat harum, 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. | |
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20. Ovid, Fasti, 2.571-2.580, 2.604 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, tacita/muta/lara as champion and protector of marriage Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 221| 2.571. ecce anus in mediis residens annosa puellis 2.572. sacra facit Tacitae (nec tamen ipsa tacet), 2.573. et digitis tria tura tribus sub limine ponit, 2.574. qua brevis occultum mus sibi fecit iter; 2.575. tunc cantata ligat cum fusco licia plumbo 2.576. et septem nigras versat in ore fabas, 2.577. quodque pice adstrinxit, quod acu traiecit aena, 2.578. obsutum maenae torret in igne caput; 2.579. vina quoque instillat: vini quodcumque relictum est, 2.580. aut ipsa aut comites, plus tamen ipsa, bibit. 2.604. effuge ait ripas; dicta refertque Iovis. | 2.571. See, an old woman sitting amongst the girls performs the rite 2.572. of Tacita, the Silent (though she herself is not silent), 2.573. With three fingers, she sets three lumps of incense 2.574. Under the sill, where the little mouse makes its secret path: 2.575. Then she fastens enchanted threads together with dark lead, 2.576. And turns seven black beans over and over in her mouth, 2.577. And bakes the head of a sprat in the fire, mouth sewn up 2.578. With pitch, pierced right through with a bronze needle. 2.579. She drops wine on it too, and she or her friend 2.580. Drink the wine that’s left, though she gets most. 2.604. She said: ‘Flee these banks’, and spoke Jupiter’s words. |
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| 21. Livy, History, 39.8-39.19 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 120 |
| 22. Statius, Achilleis, 1.76, 1.285-1.292, 1.353, 1.356, 1.603-1.618 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 204, 212 |
| 23. Seneca The Younger, Dialogi, 12.16.2, 12.16.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 236 |
| 24. Statius, Thebais, 5.1-5.498 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 161, 162, 166, 253 |
| 25. Lucan, Pharsalia, 2.329-2.345, 8.674, 8.698, 8.722 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 56, 152 |
26. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.19.2, 2.17.4, 2.35.6-2.35.7, 5.11.8, 5.13.8-5.13.9, 5.16.6-5.16.7, 6.20.9, 7.4.8, 9.35.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, zeus, marriage partners of •weddings and marriages, “sacred wedding” of zeus and hera •weddings and marriages, priestess of demeter at olympia as married woman •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of •weddings and marriages, dionysus’ sacred marriage to wife of archon basileus Found in books: Simon (2021) 15, 51, 100, 259, 261, 308, 316| 1.19.2. —ἐς δὲ τὸ χωρίον, ὃ Κήπους ὀνομάζουσι, καὶ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης τὸν ναὸν οὐδεὶς λεγόμενός σφισίν ἐστι λόγος· οὐ μὴν οὐδὲ ἐς τὴν Ἀφροδίτην, ἣ τοῦ ναοῦ πλησίον ἕστηκε. ταύτης γὰρ σχῆμα μὲν τετράγωνον κατὰ ταὐτὰ καὶ τοῖς Ἑρμαῖς, τὸ δὲ ἐπίγραμμα σημαίνει τὴν Οὐρανίαν Ἀφροδίτην τῶν καλουμένων Μοιρῶν εἶναι πρεσβυτάτην. τὸ δὲ ἄγαλμα τῆς Ἀφροδίτης τῆς ἐν τοῖς Κήποις ἔργον ἐστὶν Ἀλκαμένους καὶ τῶν Ἀθήνῃσιν ἐν ὀλίγοις θέας ἄξιον. 2.17.4. τὸ δὲ ἄγαλμα τῆς Ἥρας ἐπὶ θρόνου κάθηται μεγέθει μέγα, χρυσοῦ μὲν καὶ ἐλέφαντος, Πολυκλείτου δὲ ἔργον· ἔπεστι δέ οἱ στέφανος Χάριτας ἔχων καὶ Ὥρας ἐπειργασμένας, καὶ τῶν χειρῶν τῇ μὲν καρπὸν φέρει ῥοιᾶς, τῇ δὲ σκῆπτρον. τὰ μὲν οὖν ἐς τὴν ῥοιὰν—ἀπορρητότερος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ λόγος—ἀφείσθω μοι· κόκκυγα δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ σκήπτρῳ καθῆσθαί φασι λέγοντες τὸν Δία, ὅτε ἤρα παρθένου τῆς Ἥρας, ἐς τοῦτον τὸν ὄρνιθα ἀλλαγῆναι, τὴν δὲ ἅτε παίγνιον θηρᾶσαι. τοῦτον τὸν λόγον καὶ ὅσα ἐοικότα εἴρηται περὶ θεῶν οὐκ ἀποδεχόμενος γράφω, γράφω δὲ οὐδὲν ἧσσον. 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. 5.11.8. ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ βάθρου τοῦ τὸν θρόνον τε ἀνέχοντος καὶ ὅσος ἄλλος κόσμος περὶ τὸν Δία, ἐπὶ τούτου τοῦ βάθρου χρυσᾶ ποιήματα, ἀναβεβηκὼς ἐπὶ ἅρμα Ἤλιος καὶ Ζεύς τέ ἐστι καὶ Ἥρα, ἔτι δὲ Ἥφαιστος, παρὰ δὲ αὐτὸν Χάρις· ταύτης δὲ Ἑρμῆς ἔχεται, τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ δὲ Ἑστία· μετὰ δὲ τὴν Ἑστίαν Ἔρως ἐστὶν ἐκ θαλάσσης Ἀφροδίτην ἀνιοῦσαν ὑποδεχόμενος, τὴν δὲ Ἀφροδίτην στεφανοῖ Πειθώ· ἐπείργασται δὲ καὶ Ἀπόλλων σὺν Ἀρτέμιδι Ἀθηνᾶ τε καὶ Ἡρακλῆς, καὶ ἤδη τοῦ βάθρου πρὸς τῷ πέρατι Ἀμφιτρίτη καὶ Ποσειδῶν Σελήνη τε ἵππον ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἐλαύνουσα. τοῖς δέ ἐστιν εἰρημένα ἐφʼ ἡμιόνου τὴν θεὸν ὀχεῖσθαι καὶ οὐχ ἵππου, καὶ λόγον γέ τινα ἐπὶ τῷ ἡμιόνῳ λέγουσιν εὐήθη. 5.13.8. ἔστι δὲ ὁ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου βωμὸς ἴσον μὲν μάλιστα τοῦ Πελοπίου τε καὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ τῆς Ἥρας ἀπέχων, προκείμενος μέντοι καὶ πρὸ ἀμφοτέρων· κατασκευασθῆναι δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ μὲν ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέους τοῦ Ἰδαίου λέγουσιν, οἱ δὲ ὑπὸ ἡρώων τῶν ἐπιχωρίων γενεαῖς δύο ὕστερον τοῦ Ἡρακλέους. πεποίηται δὲ ἱερείων τῶν θυομένων τῷ Διὶ ἀπὸ τῆς τέφρας τῶν μηρῶν, καθάπερ γε καὶ ἐν Περγάμῳ· τέφρας γὰρ δή ἐστι καὶ τῇ Ἥρᾳ τῇ Σαμίᾳ βωμὸς οὐδέν τι ἐπιφανέστερος ἢ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ τῇ Ἀττικῇ ἃς αὐτοσχεδίας Ἀθηναῖοι καλοῦσιν ἐσχάρας. 5.13.9. τοῦ βωμοῦ δὲ τοῦ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ κρηπῖδος μὲν τῆς πρώτης, προθύσεως καλουμένης, πόδες πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν ἐστι περίοδος, τοῦ δὲ ἐπὶ τῇ προθύσει περίμετρος ἐπακτοῦ πόδες δύο καὶ τριάκοντα· τὸ δὲ ὕψος τοῦ βωμοῦ τὸ σύμπαν ἐς δύο καὶ εἴκοσιν ἀνήκει πόδας. αὐτὰ μὲν δὴ τὰ ἱερεῖα ἐν μέρει τῷ κάτω, τῇ προθύσει, καθέστηκεν αὐτοῖς θύειν· τοὺς μηροὺς δὲ ἀναφέροντες ἐς τοῦ βωμοῦ τὸ ὑψηλέστατον καθαγίζουσιν ἐνταῦθα. 5.16.6. αἱ πόλεις δὲ ἀφʼ ὧν τὰς γυναῖκας εἵλοντο, ἦσαν Ἦλις . ἀπὸ τούτων μὲν αἱ γυναῖκες οὖσαι τῶν πόλεων Πισαίοις διαλλαγὰς πρὸς Ἠλείους ἐποίησαν· ὕστερον δὲ καὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἐπετράπησαν ὑπʼ αὐτῶν θεῖναι τὰ Ἡραῖα καὶ ὑφήνασθαι τῇ Ἥρᾳ τὸν πέπλον. αἱ δὲ ἑκκαίδεκα γυναῖκες καὶ χοροὺς δύο ἱστᾶσι καὶ τὸν μὲν Φυσκόας τῶν χορῶν, τὸν δὲ Ἱπποδαμείας καλοῦσι· τὴν Φυσκόαν δὲ εἶναι ταύτην φασὶν ἐκ τῆς Ἤλιδος τῆς Κοίλης, τῷ δήμῳ δὲ ἔνθα ᾤκησεν ὄνομα μὲν Ὀρθίαν εἶναι. 5.16.7. ταύτῃ τῇ Φυσκόᾳ Διόνυσον συγγενέσθαι λέγουσι, Φυσκόαν δὲ ἐκ Διονύσου τεκεῖν παῖδα Ναρκαῖον· τοῦτον, ὡς ηὐξήθη, πολεμεῖν τοῖς προσοίκοις καὶ δυνάμεως ἐπὶ μέγα ἀρθῆναι, καὶ δὴ καὶ Ἀθηνᾶς ἱερὸν ἐπίκλησιν Ναρκαίας αὐτὸν ἱδρύσασθαι· Διονύσῳ τε τιμὰς λέγουσιν ὑπὸ Ναρκαίου καὶ Φυσκόας δοθῆναι πρώτων. Φυσκόας μὲν δὴ γέρα καὶ ἄλλα καὶ χορὸς ἐπώνυμος παρὰ τῶν ἑκκαίδεκα γυναικῶν, φυλάσσουσι δὲ οὐδὲν ἧσσον Ἠλεῖοι καὶ τἄλλα καταλυθεισῶν ὅμως τῶν πόλεων· νενεμημένοι γὰρ ἐς ὀκτὼ φυλὰς ἀφʼ ἑκάστης αἱροῦνται γυναῖκας δύο. 6.20.9. ἐπὶ τούτου καθεζομένη τοῦ βωμοῦ θεᾶται γυνὴ τὰ Ὀλύμπια, ἱέρεια Δήμητρος Χαμύνης, τιμὴν ταύτη ν ἄλλοτε ἄλλη ν λαμβάνουσα παρὰ Ἠλείων. παρθένους δὲ οὐκ εἴργουσι θεᾶσθαι. πρὸς δὲ τοῦ σταδίου τῷ πέρατι, ᾗ τοῖς σταδιαδρόμοις ἄφεσις πεποίηται, Ἐνδυμίωνος μνῆμα ἐνταῦθα λόγῳ Ἠλείων ἐστίν. 7.4.8. Ἴωνι δὲ τῷ ποιήσαντι τραγῳδίαν ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ συγγραφῇ τοιάδε εἰρημένα, Ποσειδῶνα ἐς τὴν νῆσον ἔρημον οὖσαν ἀφικέσθαι καὶ νύμφῃ τε ἐνταῦθα συγγενέσθαι καὶ ὑπὸ τὰς ὠδῖνας τῆς νύμφης χιόνα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ πεσεῖν ἐς τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἀπὸ τούτου Ποσειδῶνα τῷ παιδὶ ὄνομα θέσθαι Χίον· συγγενέσθαι δὲ αὐτὸν καὶ ἑτέρᾳ νύμφῃ, καὶ γενέσθαι οἱ παῖδας Ἄγελόν τε καὶ Μέλανα· ἀνὰ χρόνον δὲ καὶ Οἰνοπίωνα ἐς τὴν Χίον κατᾶραι ναυσὶν ἐκ Κρήτης, ἕπεσθαι δέ οἱ καὶ τοὺς παῖδας Τάλον καὶ Εὐάνθην καὶ Μέλανα καὶ Σάλαγόν τε καὶ Ἀθάμαντα. 9.35.5. Ἡσίοδος δὲ ἐν Θεογονίᾳ—προσιέσθω δὲ ὅτῳ φίλον τὴν Θεογονίαν—, ἐν δʼ οὖν τῇ ποιήσει ταύτῃ τὰς Χάριτάς φησιν εἶναι Διός τε καὶ Εὐρυνόμης καί σφισιν ὀνόματα Εὐφροσύνην τε καὶ Ἀγλαΐαν εἶναι καὶ Θαλίαν. κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὲ ἐν ἔπεσίν ἐστι τοῖς Ὀνομακρίτου. Ἀντίμαχος δὲ οὔτε ἀριθμὸν Χαρίτων οὔτε ὀνόματα εἰπὼν Αἴγλης εἶναι θυγατέρας καὶ Ἡλίου φησὶν αὐτάς. Ἑρμησιάνακτι δὲ τῷ τὰ ἐλεγεῖα γράψαντι τοσόνδε οὐ κατὰ τὴν τῶν πρότερον δόξαν ἐστὶν αὐτῷ πεποιημένον, ὡς ἡ Πειθὼ Χαρίτων εἴη καὶ αὐτὴ μία. | 1.19.2. Concerning the district called The Gardens, and the temple of Aphrodite, there is no story that is told by them, nor yet about the Aphrodite which stands near the temple. Now the shape of it is square, like that of the Hermae, and the inscription declares that the Heavenly Aphrodite is the oldest of those called Fates. But the statue of Aphrodite in the Gardens is the work of Alcamenes, and one of the most note worthy things in Athens . 2.17.4. The statue of Hera is seated on a throne; it is huge, made of gold and ivory, and is a work of Polycleitus. She is wearing a crown with Graces and Seasons worked upon it, and in one hand she carries a pomegranate and in the other a sceptre. About the pomegranate I must say nothing, for its story is somewhat of a holy mystery. The presence of a cuckoo seated on the sceptre they explain by the story that when Zeus was in love with Hera in her maidenhood he changed himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her pet. This tale and similar legends about the gods I relate without believing them, but I relate them nevertheless. 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. 5.11.8. On the pedestal supporting the throne and Zeus with all his adornments are works in gold: the Sun mounted on a chariot, Zeus and Hera, Hephaestus, and by his side Grace. Close to her comes Hermes, and close to Hermes Hestia. After Hestia is Eros receiving Aphrodite as she rises from the sea, and Aphrodite is being crowned by Persuasion. There are also reliefs of Apollo with Artemis, of Athena and of Heracles; and near the end of the pedestal Amphitrite and Poseidon, while the Moon is driving what I think is a horse. Some have said that the steed of the goddess is a mule not a horse, and they tell a silly story about the mule. 5.13.8. The altar of Olympic Zeus is about equally distant from the Pelopium and the sanctuary of Hera, but it is in front of both. Some say that it was built by Idaean Heracles, others by the local heroes two generations later than Heracles. It has been made from the ash of the thighs of the victims sacrificed to Zeus, as is also the altar at Pergamus . There is an ashen altar of Samian Hera not a bit grander than what in Attica the Athenians call “improvised hearths.” 5.13.9. The first stage of the altar at Olympia , called prothysis, has a circumference of one hundred and twenty-five feet; the circumference of the stage on the prothysis is thirty-two feet; the total height of the altar reaches to twenty-two feet. The victims themselves it is the custom to sacrifice on the lower stage, the prothysis. But the thighs they carry up to the highest part of the altar and burn them there. 5.16.6. The cities from which they chose the women were Elis , The women from these cities made peace between Pisa and Elis . Later on they were entrusted with the management of the Heraean games, and with the weaving of the robe for Hera. The Sixteen Women also arrange two choral dances, one called that of Physcoa and the other that of Hippodameia. This Physcoa they say came from Elis in the Hollow, and the name of the parish where she lived was Orthia. 5.16.7. She mated they say with Dionysus, and bore him a son called Narcaeus. When he grew up he made war against the neighboring folk, and rose to great power, setting up moreover a sanctuary of Athena surnamed Narcaea. They say too that Narcaeus and Physcoa were the first to pay worship to Dionysus. So various honors are paid to Physcoa, especially that of the choral dance, named after her and managed by the Sixteen Women. The Eleans still adhere to the other ancient customs, even though some of the cities have been destroyed. For they are now divided into eight tribes, and they choose two women from each. 6.20.9. seated on this altar a woman looks on at the Olympic games, the priestess of Demeter Chamyne, which office the Eleans bestow from time to time on different women. Maidens are not debarred from looking on at the games. At the end of the stadium, where is the starting-place for the runners, there is, the Eleans say, the tomb of Endymion. 7.4.8. . . . Ion the tragic poet says in his history that Poseidon came to the island when it was uninhabited; that there he had intercourse with a nymph, and that when she was in her pains there was a fall of snow ( chion), and that accordingly Poseidon called his son Chios . Ion also says that Poseidon had intercourse with another nymph, by whom he had Agelus and Melas ; that in course of time Oenopion too sailed with a fleet from Crete to Chios , accompanied by his sons Talus, Euanthes, Melas , Salagus and Athamas. 9.35.5. Hesiod in the Theogony Hes. Th. 907 (though the authorship is doubtful, this poem is good evidence) says that the Graces are daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, giving them the names of Euphrosyne, Aglaia and Thalia. The poem of Onomacritus agrees with this account. Antimachus, while giving neither the number of the Graces nor their names, says that they are daughters of Aegle and the Sun. The elegiac poet Hermesianax disagrees with his predecessors in that he makes Persuasion also one of the Graces. |
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| 27. Servius, Commentary On The Aeneid, 4.99 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 20 |
| 28. Antiphanes, Fr.288 Kock, Fr., 288 Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of Found in books: Simon (2021) 261 |
| 29. Clement of Alexandria, Cypria (Fragmenta), 166 Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of Found in books: Simon (2021) 261 |
| 30. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 2.1-2.427 Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 151, 152 |
31. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.724, 3.303-3.305, 4.173-4.197, 4.496-4.497, 4.504-4.507, 4.509, 4.666, 5.613-5.617, 5.659-5.663, 7.397-7.399, 11.477-11.485 Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriages, hephaestus, wives of •weddings and marriage, conflations of wedding and burial rites •weddings and marriage, of procne and tereus •weddings and marriage, bacchic negation of marriage and domesticity Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 151, 152, 162, 236, 253; Simon (2021) 261 | 1.724. or where the fleet was landed, or what aim 3.303. the Strophades, where dread Celaeno bides, 3.304. with other Harpies, who had quit the halls 3.305. of stricken Phineus, and for very fear 4.173. black storm-clouds with a burst of heavy hail 4.174. along their way; and as the huntsmen speed 4.175. to hem the wood with snares, I will arouse 4.176. all heaven with thunder. The attending train 4.177. hall scatter and be veiled in blinding dark, 4.178. while Dido and her hero out of Troy 4.179. to the same cavern fly. My auspices 4.180. I will declare—if thou alike wilt bless; 4.181. and yield her in true wedlock for his bride. 4.182. Such shall their spousal be!” To Juno's will 4.183. Cythera's Queen inclined assenting brow, 4.184. and laughed such guile to see. Aurora rose, 4.185. and left the ocean's rim. The city's gates 4.186. pour forth to greet the morn a gallant train 4.187. of huntsmen, bearing many a woven snare 4.188. and steel-tipped javelin; while to and fro 4.189. run the keen-scented dogs and Libyan squires. 4.190. The Queen still keeps her chamber; at her doors 4.191. the Punic lords await; her palfrey, brave 4.192. in gold and purple housing, paws the ground 4.193. and fiercely champs the foam-flecked bridle-rein. 4.194. At last, with numerous escort, forth she shines: 4.195. her Tyrian pall is bordered in bright hues, 4.196. her quiver, gold; her tresses are confined 4.197. only with gold; her robes of purple rare 4.496. looks on me in my dreams with angered brow. 4.497. I think of my Ascanius, and the wrong 4.504. the god within these walls; I have received 4.505. with my own ears his word. No more inflame 4.506. with lamentation fond thy heart and mine. 4.509. peechless this way and that, had listened long 4.666. “I know a way—O, wish thy sister joy!— 5.613. the helmet and the sword—but left behind 5.614. Entellus' prize of victory, the bull. 5.615. He, then, elate and glorying, spoke forth: 5.616. “See, goddess-born, and all ye Teucrians, see, 5.617. what strength was mine in youth, and from what death 5.659. failing, unhappy man, to bring his barb 5.660. up to the dove herself, just cut the cord 5.661. and broke the hempen bond, whereby her feet 5.662. were captive to the tree: she, taking flight, 5.663. clove through the shadowing clouds her path of air. 7.397. was wrought by Lapithae or Calydon? 7.398. But I, Jove's wife and Queen, who in my woes 7.399. have ventured each bold stroke my power could find, 11.477. fling thy poor countrymen in danger's way, 11.478. O chief and fountain of all Latium 's pain? 11.479. War will not save us. Not a voice but sues 11.480. for peace, O Turnus! and, not less than peace, 11.481. its one inviolable pledge. Behold, 11.482. I lead in this petition! even I 11.483. whom thou dost feign thy foe—(I waste no words 11.484. denying)—look! I supplicate of thee, 11.485. take pity on thy kindred; drop thy pride, |
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32. Vergil, Georgics, 4.453-4.527 Tagged with subjects: •weddings and marriage, of orpheus and eurydice Found in books: Panoussi(2019) 92| 4.453. “Non te nullius exercent numinis irae; 4.454. magna luis commissa: tibi has miserabilis Orpheus 4.455. haudquaquam ob meritum poenas, ni fata resistant, 4.456. suscitat et rapta graviter pro coniuge saevit. 4.457. Illa quidem, dum te fugeret per flumina praeceps, 4.458. immanem ante pedes hydrum moritura puella 4.459. servantem ripas alta non vidit in herba. 4.460. At chorus aequalis Dryadum clamore supremos 4.461. implerunt montes; flerunt Rhodopeiae arces 4.462. altaque Pangaea et Rhesi mavortia tellus 4.463. atque Getae atque Hebrus et Actias Orithyia. 4.464. Ipse cava solans aegrum testudine amorem 4.465. te, dulcis coniunx, te solo in litore secum, 4.466. te veniente die, te decedente canebat. 4.467. Taenarias etiam fauces, alta ostia Ditis, 4.468. et caligantem nigra formidine lucum 4.469. ingressus manesque adiit regemque tremendum 4.470. nesciaque humanis precibus mansuescere corda. 4.471. At cantu commotae Erebi de sedibus imis 4.472. umbrae ibant tenues simulacraque luce carentum, 4.473. quam multa in foliis avium se milia condunt 4.474. vesper ubi aut hibernus agit de montibus imber, 4.475. matres atque viri defunctaque corpora vita 4.476. magimum heroum, pueri innuptaeque puellae, 4.477. impositique rogis iuvenes ante ora parentum, 4.478. quos circum limus niger et deformis harundo 4.479. Cocyti tardaque palus inamabilis unda 4.480. alligat et noviens Styx interfusa coercet. 4.481. Quin ipsae stupuere domus atque intima Leti 4.482. tartara caeruleosque implexae crinibus angues 4.483. Eumenides, tenuitque inhians tria Cerberus ora 4.484. atque Ixionii vento rota constitit orbis. 4.485. Iamque pedem referens casus evaserat omnes; 4.486. redditaque Eurydice superas veniebat ad auras, 4.487. pone sequens, namque hanc dederat Proserpina legem, 4.488. cum subita incautum dementia cepit amantem, 4.489. ignoscenda quidem, scirent si ignoscere manes. 4.490. Restitit Eurydicenque suam iam luce sub ipsa 4.491. immemor heu! victusque animi respexit. Ibi omnis 4.492. effusus labor atque immitis rupta tyranni 4.493. foedera, terque fragor stagnis auditus Avernis. 4.494. Illa, “Quis et me,” inquit, “miseram et te perdidit, Orpheu, 4.495. quis tantus furor? En iterum crudelia retro 4.496. Fata vocant, conditque natantia lumina somnus. 4.497. Iamque vale: feror ingenti circumdata nocte 4.498. invalidasque tibi tendens, heu non tua, palmas!” 4.499. dixit et ex oculis subito, ceu fumus in auras 4.500. commixtus tenues, fugit diversa, neque illum, 4.501. prensantem nequiquam umbras et multa volentem 4.502. dicere, praeterea vidit, nec portitor Orci 4.503. amplius obiectam passus transire paludem. 4.504. Quid faceret? Quo se rapta bis coniuge ferret? 4.505. Quo fletu Manis, quae numina voce moveret? 4.506. Illa quidem Stygia nabat iam frigida cumba. 4.507. Septem illum totos perhibent ex ordine menses 4.508. rupe sub aeria deserti ad Strymonis undam 4.509. flesse sibi et gelidis haec evolvisse sub antris 4.510. mulcentem tigres et agentem carmine quercus; 4.511. qualis populea maerens philomela sub umbra 4.512. amissos queritur fetus, quos durus arator 4.513. observans nido implumes detraxit; at illa 4.514. flet noctem ramoque sedens miserabile carmen 4.515. integrat et maestis late loca questibus implet. 4.516. Nulla Venus, non ulli animum flexere hymenaei. 4.517. Solus Hyperboreas glacies Tanaimque nivalem 4.518. arvaque Rhipaeis numquam viduata pruinis 4.519. lustrabat raptam Eurydicen atque inrita Ditis 4.520. dona querens; spretae Ciconum quo munere matres 4.521. inter sacra deum nocturnique orgia Bacchi 4.522. discerptum latos iuvenem sparsere per agros. 4.523. Tum quoque marmorea caput a cervice revulsum 4.524. gurgite cum medio portans Oeagrius Hebrus 4.525. volveret, Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua 4.526. “ah miseram Eurydicen!” anima fugiente vocabat: 4.527. “Eurydicen” toto referebant flumine ripae.” | |
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