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Pontus (search for this): card 973
Chorus Of that goddess alone there are no altars, no statue to approach, and to sacrifice she pays no heed. Do not, I pray you, Lady, come with greater force than heretofore in my life. For whatever Zeus ordains, with your help he brings it to fulfillment. Even the iron of the Chalybes A people living on the Black Sea, said to have invented the working of iron. you overcome with your violence, and there is no pity in your unrelenting heart.
Larisa (Greece) (search for this): card 816
ping eyes and the shorn hair and the expression of grief, but he convinced me that he was burying someone unrelated. And against my better judgement I passed through these gates and caroused in the house of this hospitable man in his hour of grief. And can I now go on revelling, my head garlanded? But it is your task now, with such a great misfortune brought on the house, to tell me, where he is burying her, where I must go to find her. Serving-man Next to the straight road that leads to Larisa you will see from the outskirts of the city a sculpted tomb. Heracles O heart and hand that have endured so much, now show what kind of son Tirynthian Alcmene, daughter of Electryon, bore to Zeus. For I must save the woman who has just died and show my gratitude to Admetus by restoring Alcestis once more to this house. I shall go and look out for the black-robed lord of the dead, Death himself, and I think I shall find him drinking from the offerings near the tomb. And if once I rush fro
Pelion (Greece) (search for this): card 588
Chorus Therefore he dwells in a house rich in flocks beside fair-flowing Lake Boebias, and for the tillage of his fields and for his grazing lands he sets the boundary where the sun stables his horses in the dark west beyond the Molossian mountains, and he rules as far as the rocky Aegean promontory of Pelion.
Aegean (search for this): card 588
Chorus Therefore he dwells in a house rich in flocks beside fair-flowing Lake Boebias, and for the tillage of his fields and for his grazing lands he sets the boundary where the sun stables his horses in the dark west beyond the Molossian mountains, and he rules as far as the rocky Aegean promontory of Pelion.
Argos (Greece) (search for this): card 536
servant goes into the palace, followed by Heracles. Chorus-Leader What are you doing? Faced with such misfortune, Admetus, do you have the stomach to entertain guests? Why are you so foolish? Admetus Yet if I had driven from my house and city a friend who had just arrived, would you have praised me more? No, indeed, since my misfortune would have been in no way lessened, and I would have been less hospitable. And in addition to my ills we would have the further ill that my house would be called a spurner of guests. I myself find in this man the best of hosts whenever I go to thirsty Argos. Chorus-Leader Why then did you conceal your present plight when, as you say yourself, he has come as a friend? Admetus He would never have consented to enter the house if he had known anything of my sorrow. And no doubt someone will think that in doing this I am being foolish and will not approve of me. But my house does not know how to reject or dishonor guests.Exit Admetus into the palace.
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): card 507
Admetus enters from the palace, dressed in black and hair cut in mourning. Chorus-Leader But here, Admetus, the king of this land, is himself coming out of doors. Admetus I wish you joy, son of Zeus and child of Perseus' blood. Heracles Admetus, king of Thessaly, I wish you joy as well. Admetus If only I could have it! I know you wish me well. Heracles Why are you wearing the shorn hair of mourning? Admetus I am about to bury someone today. Heracles God keep misfortune from your children! Admetus The children I begot are alive in the house. Heracles Your father was of a ripe old age, if it is he that has departed. Admetus My father lives, Heracles, and my mother too. Heracles Surely your wife Alcestis has not died? Admetus There is a double tale to tell of her. Heracles Do you mean that she has died or is still alive? Admetus She is and is no more. It causes me grief. Heracles I'm still no wiser: you speak in riddles. Admetus Do you not know what doom she is fated
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): card 477
Enter by Eisodos A Heracles with his characteristic lion-skin and club. A servant goes in to tell Admetus of the arrival. Heracles Strangers, citizens of this land of Pherae, do I find Admetus at home? Chorus-Leader Yes, Pheres' son is at home, Heracles. But tell us what need brings you to Thessaly and to this city of Pherae. Heracles I am performing a certain labor for Eurystheus, king of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader Where are you bound? What is the wandering you are constrained to make? Heracles I go in quest of the four-horse chariot of Thracian Diomedes. Chorus-Leader How can you do that? Do you not know what kind of host he is? Heracles I do not. I have never yet been to Bistonia. Chorus-Leader You cannot possess those horses without a fight. Heracles But all the same, I cannot decline these labors. Chorus-Leader Then you will either kill him and return or end your days there. Heracles This is not the first such race I shall have run. Chorus-Leader If you defeat their m
Thrace (Greece) (search for this): card 477
s there. Heracles This is not the first such race I shall have run. Chorus-Leader If you defeat their master, what will it profit you? Heracles I will bring the horses back to the lord of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader You will not find it easy to put a bit in their mouths. Heracles Surely so, unless they breathe fire from their nostrils. Chorus-Leader No, but they tear men apart with their nimble jaws. Heracles This is fodder for mountain beasts, not horses. Chorus-Leader You will see their feeding-troughs drenched with blood. Heracles Whose son does their master claim to be? Chorus-Leader Ares' son, and shield-bearing lord of Thrace rich in gold. Heracles Like the others this labor you name befits my destiny （which is always hard and steep） since I am fated to do battle with all the sons of Ares: first Lycaon, then Cycnus, and now this is the third contest I enter, going off to fight horses and master alike. But no one shall ever see Alcmene's son quake at the hand of an en
Tiryns (Greece) (search for this): card 477
s of this land of Pherae, do I find Admetus at home? Chorus-Leader Yes, Pheres' son is at home, Heracles. But tell us what need brings you to Thessaly and to this city of Pherae. Heracles I am performing a certain labor for Eurystheus, king of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader Where are you bound? What is the wandering you are constrained to make? Heracles I go in quest of the four-horse chariot of Thracian Diomedes. Chorus-Leader How can you do that? Do you not know what kind of host he is? Heracleshen you will either kill him and return or end your days there. Heracles This is not the first such race I shall have run. Chorus-Leader If you defeat their master, what will it profit you? Heracles I will bring the horses back to the lord of Tiryns. Chorus-Leader You will not find it easy to put a bit in their mouths. Heracles Surely so, unless they breathe fire from their nostrils. Chorus-Leader No, but they tear men apart with their nimble jaws. Heracles This is fodder for mountain b
Athens (Greece) (search for this): card 445
Chorus Poets shall sing often in your praise both on the seven-stringed mountain tortoise-shellHermes is said to have made the first lyre out of a tortoise-shell. and in songs unaccompanied by the lyre when at Sparta the month of CarneaThe Spartan month of Carnea was the time of a festival, also called Carnea. This passage is our only evidence showing that it included musical performances. comes circling round and the moon is aloft the whole night long, and also in rich, gleaming Athens. Such is the theme for song that you have left for poets by your death.
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