hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Pausanias, Description of Greece 60 0 Browse Search
Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 22 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 8 0 Browse Search
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) 6 0 Browse Search
Polybius, Histories 4 0 Browse Search
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 4 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter) 4 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Helen (ed. E. P. Coleridge) 2 0 Browse Search
Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 2 0 Browse Search
Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter). You can also browse the collection for Pisa or search for Pisa in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter), line 1 (search)
Before the great temple of Artemis of the Taurians. A blood-stained altar is prominently in view. Iphigenia, clad as a priestess, enters from the temple. Iphigenia Pelops, son of Tantalus, coming to Pisa with swift horses, married Oenomaus' daughter, and she gave birth to Atreus, whose children are Menelaus and Agamemnon; from him I was born, his child Iphigenia, by the daughter of Tyndareus. Where Euripus rolls about its whirlpools in the frequent winds and twists the darkening waves, my father sacrificed me to Artemis for Helen's sake, or so he thought, in the famous clefts of Aulis. For there lord Agamemnon mustered his expedition of a thousand ships of Hellas, wanting to take the crown of Troy in glorious victory and avenge the outrage to Helen's marriage, doing this favor for Menelaus. But when he met with dreadful winds that would not let him sail, he went to burnt sacrifices, and Calchas had this to say: “"Lord and general of Hellas, Agamemnon, you will not set free your sh
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter), line 798 (search)
ell, it is for you to speak, for me to learn. Orestes I will say first what I have heard from Electra. Do you know of the strife that was between Atreus and Thyestes? Iphigenia I have heard of it; the quarrel concerned a golden ram. Orestes Did you not weave these things in a fine-textured web? Iphigenia O dearest, you are bending your course near to my heart! Orestes And the image of the sun in the middle of the loom? Iphigenia I wove that shape also, in fine threads. Orestes And you received a ceremonial bath from your mother, for Aulis? Iphigenia I know; for no happy marriage has taken that memory from me. Orestes What about this? You gave locks of your hair to be brought to your mother? Iphigenia As a memorial, in place of my body, in the tomb. Orestes What I myself have seen, I will say for proof: an old spear of Pelops, in my father's house, which he brandished in his hand when he won Hippodamia, the maiden of Pisa, and killed Oenomaus; it was hung up in your rooms.