| 1. Theognis, Elegies, 331, 335 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31 |
2. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 54 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •xenophanes, on luxury Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31| 54. καὶ δὴ πρόχειρα ψάλια δέρκεσθαι πάρα. Κράτος | 54. Well, there then! The bands are ready, as you may see. Power |
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| 3. Sophocles, Electra, 1115-1116 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31 |
4. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 4.34.2 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •xenophanes, on luxury Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31| 4.34.2. γενομένης δὲ τῆς βοῆς ἅμα τῇ ἐπιδρομῇ ἔκπληξίς τε ἐνέπεσεν ἀνθρώποις ἀήθεσι τοιαύτης μάχης καὶ ὁ κονιορτὸς τῆς ὕλης νεωστὶ κεκαυμένης ἐχώρει πολὺς ἄνω, ἄπορόν τε ἦν ἰδεῖν τὸ πρὸ αὑτοῦ ὑπὸ τῶν τοξευμάτων καὶ λίθων ἀπὸ πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων μετὰ τοῦ κονιορτοῦ ἅμα φερομένων. | 4.34.2. The shouting accompanying their onset confounded the Lacedaemonians, unaccustomed to this mode of fighting; dust rose from the newly-burnt wood, and it was impossible to see in front of one with the arrows and stones flying through clouds of dust from the hands of numerous assailants. |
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5. Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.3.2 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •xenophanes, on luxury Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31| 1.3.2. καὶ ηὔχετο δὲ πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς ἁπλῶς τἀγαθὰ διδόναι, ὡς τοὺς θεοὺς κάλλιστα εἰδότας ὁποῖα ἀγαθά ἐστι· τοὺς δʼ εὐχομένους χρυσίον ἢ ἀργύριον ἢ τυραννίδα ἢ ἄλλο τι τῶν τοιούτων οὐδὲν διάφορον ἐνόμιζεν εὔχεσθαι ἢ εἰ κυβείαν ἢ μάχην ἢ ἄλλο τι εὔχοιντο τῶν φανερῶς ἀδήλων ὅπως ἀποβήσοιτο. | 1.3.2. And again, when he prayed he asked simply for good gifts, Cyropaedia I. vi. 5. for the gods know best what things are good. To pray for gold or silver or sovereignty or any other such thing, was just like praying for a gamble or a fight or anything of which the result is obviously uncertain. |
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6. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 726 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •xenophanes, on luxury Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31 | 726. rend= Servant (of Hyllus) |
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| 7. Plato, Alcibiades Ii, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31 |
8. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31| 373a. ταῦτα γὰρ δή τισιν, ὡς δοκεῖ, οὐκ ἐξαρκέσει, οὐδὲ αὕτη ἡ δίαιτα, ἀλλὰ κλῖναί τε προσέσονται καὶ τράπεζαι καὶ τἆλλα σκεύη, καὶ ὄψα δὴ καὶ μύρα καὶ θυμιάματα καὶ ἑταῖραι καὶ πέμματα, καὶ ἕκαστα τούτων παντοδαπά. καὶ δὴ καὶ ἃ τὸ πρῶτον ἐλέγομεν οὐκέτι τἀναγκαῖα θετέον, οἰκίας τε καὶ ἱμάτια καὶ ὑποδήματα, ἀλλὰ τήν τε ζωγραφίαν κινητέον καὶ τὴν ποικιλίαν, καὶ χρυσὸν καὶ ἐλέφαντα καὶ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα κτητέον. ἦ γάρ; | 373a. For there are some, it appears, who will not be contented with this sort of fare or with this way of life; but couches will have to be added thereto and tables and other furniture, yes, and relishes and myrrh and incense and girls and cakes—all sorts of all of them. And the requirements we first mentioned, houses and garments and shoes, will no longer be confined to necessities, but we must set painting to work and embroidery, and procure gold and ivory and similar adornments, must we not? |
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| 9. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 10.9.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •xenophanes, on luxury Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31 |
| 10. Solon, Ep., 4 Tagged with subjects: •xenophanes, on luxury Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31 |
| 12. Anacreon/Anacreonta, Fr., None Tagged with subjects: •xenophanes, on luxury Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 31 |
