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Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 14, section 1093a (search)
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (ed. H. Rackham), Book 3, chapter 1 (search)
Yet there seem to be some acts which a man cannot be compelled to
do,i.e., some acts are so repulsive that a man's
abhorrence of them must be stronger than any pressure that can be put on him to commit
them; so that if he commits them he must be held to have chosen to do so. and
rather than do them he ought to submit to the most terrible death: for instance, we think
it ridiculous that Alcmaeon in Euripides' playIn a
play now lost, Eriphyle was bribed with a necklace to induce her husband Amphiaraus,
king of Argos, to join the expedition of the
Seven against Thebes. Foreseeing he would lose
his life, he charged his sons to avenge his death upon their mother, invoking on them
famine and childlessness if they disobeyed. The verse in question is preserved: ma/lista me\n m' e)ph=r' e)piskh/yas path/r. Alcmaeon, fr. 69
(Nauck). is compelled by certain threats to murder his mother!
The road from Thebes to Chalcis is by this Proetidian gate. On the highway is pointed out the grave of Melanippus, one of the very best of the soldiers of Thebes. When the Argive invasion occurred this Melanippus killed Tydeus, as well as Mecisteus, one of the brothers of Adrastus, while he himself, they say, met his death at the hands of Amphiaraus.
Quite close to it are three unwrought stones. The Theban antiquaries assert that the man lying here is Tydeus, and that his burial was carried out by Maeon. As proof of their assertion they quoted a line of the Iliad:Of Tydeus, who at Thebes is covered by a heap of earth.Hom. Il. 14.114
Adjoining are the tombs of the children of Oedipus. The ritual observed at them I have never seen, but I regard it as credible. For the Thebans say that among those called heroes to whom they offer sacrifice are the children of Oedipus. As the sacrifice is being offered, the flame, so they say, and the smoke from it divide themselves into two. I was led to