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Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 132 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 126 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 114 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 88 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Apollodorus, Library and Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer) | 68 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 32 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lycurgus, Speeches | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Demades, On the Twelve Years | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
P. Terentius Afer (Terence), Andria: The Fair Andrian (ed. Henry Thomas Riley) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Athena
Farewell to you also; but I must lead the way to show you your dwellings by the sacred light of these, your escorts.The Chorus is now to be solemnly conducted to the cave beneath the Hill of Ares, the seat of the worship of the Venerable Ones (*semnai/, l. 1041), with whom the poet here identifies the Erinyes, the Angry Ones, the Avenging Spirits. The identification seems also to include the Eumenides, the Kindly Ones, who were worshipped at Sicyon, at Argos, and in Attica at Phlya and Colonus (see Soph. OT). The procession is formed by Athena (at its head), the Chorus, the Areopagites, torch-bearers, the women who guard the Palladium, and various others. In the rear came the Athenian public.Go, and, speeding beneath the earth with these solemn sacrifices, hold back what is ruinous to the land, but send what is profitable for the city to win her victory. You who hold the city, children of Cranaus,Cranaus was the mythical founder of the “rocky city” (kranao/s “roc