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Browsing named entities in Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter). You can also browse the collection for Athens (Greece) or search for Athens (Greece) in all documents.
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Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter), line 1475 (search)
Thoas
Lady Athena, whoever hears the words of the gods and does not obey, is not thinking rightly. I am not angry at Orestes, for going off with the goddess' image, or at his sister; for what good is it to contend against the strength of gods? Let them go to your land with the statue of the goddess, and let them establish it there, with good fortune. I will send these women also to fortunate Hellas, as you bid me. And I will stop the army and the ships I raised against the strangers, as you think this right, goddess.
Athena
I commend you; for necessity rules both you and the gods.
Go, winds, carry the son of Agamemnon to Athens by sea; I will journey with them, and keep safe the holy image of my sister.
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter), line 1435 (search)
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter), line 1056 (search)
Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris (ed. Robert Potter), line 939 (search)
Orestes
I will tell you; this is the beginning of my many troubles. When my mother's evil deeds, that I cannot speak of, came into my hands, I was driven to flight by the Furies' pursuit; then Loxias sent me to Athens, to stand trial with the goddesses who may not be named. For there is a holy tribunal there, which Zeus once established for Ares, when his hands were stained with blood-pollution. I came there . . . at first, no host would willingly take me in, as one hated by the gods; then s ure of wine and had their delight. And I did not think it right to blame my hosts, but I grieved in silence and seemed not to know, while I sighed deeply, that I was the murderer of my mother. I hear that my misfortunes have become a festival at Athens, and they still hold this custom and the people of Pallas honor the cup that belongs to the Feast of Pitchers.
When I came to the hill of Ares to stand my trial, I took one seat, and the eldest of the Furies took the other. I spoke and heard arg