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Pausanias, Description of Greece 36 0 Browse Search
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) 18 0 Browse Search
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) 12 0 Browse Search
Bacchylides, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) 8 0 Browse Search
Euripides, Alcestis (ed. David Kovacs) 4 0 Browse Search
Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb) 4 0 Browse Search
Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis 2 0 Browse Search
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Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 270 (search)
Furious at this treatment,when afterward Iphitus came to the hill of Tiryns on the track of horses that had strayed, Heracles seized a moment when the man's eyes were one place and his thoughts another, and hurled him from a towering summit. But in anger at that deed, the king,the father of all, Olympian Zeus, sent him away to be sold, and did not tolerate that this once, he killed a man by guile. Had he achieved his vengeance openly, Zeus would surely have pardoned him the righteous triumph.For the gods do not love criminal behavior either. So those men, who gloried in bitter speech, are themselves residents of Hades, all of them, and their city is enslaved. And the women whom you see, fallen from happiness to misery,are sent here to you. For that was your husband's command, which I, his faithful servant, perform. As for the man himself, know that he will come, once he has made pure sacrifice to Zeus of his fathers for the sacking of the city. After all the good newsthat has be
Sophocles, Trachiniae (ed. Sir Richard Jebb), line 1143 (search)
Heracles Ah! Ah, misery! I am lost, ruined, ruined! The light of day exists for me no more!Ah, now I understand the depth of my misfortune! Go, my son! Your father is no more. Summon for me all the crop of your brothers. Summon, too, poor Alcmena, in vain the bedfellow of Zeus, so thatyou may hear my final words tell what oracles I know. Hyllus I cannot. Your mother is not here. It happens that she keeps her home at Tiryns by the sea. Some of your children she has taken to raise with her there, and others, you will find, are dwelling in Thebes.But we who are with you, Father, will render at your command all service that is needed.