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Argive (Greece) (search for this): card 1
Before the temple of Demeter at Eleusis. On the steps of the great altar is seated Aethra. Around her, in the garb of suppliants, is the Chorus of Argive mothers. Adrastus lies on the ground before the altar, crushed in abject grief. The children of the slain chieftains stand nearby. Around the altar are the attendants of the goddess. Aethra Demeter, guardian of this Eleusinian land, and you servants of the goddess who attend her shrine, grant happiness to me and my son Theseus, to the city of Athens and the country of Pittheus, where my father reared me, Aethra, in a happy home, and gave me in marriage to Aegeus, Pandion's son, according to the oracle of Loxias. This prayer I make, when I behold these aged women, who, leaving their homes in Argos, now throw themselves with suppliant branches at my knees in their terrible trouble; for around the gates of Cadmus they have lost their seven noble sons, whom Adrastus, king of Argos, once led there, eager to secure for exiled Polyneice
Argos (Greece) (search for this): card 1
and the country of Pittheus, where my father reared me, Aethra, in a happy home, and gave me in marriage to Aegeus, Pandion's son, according to the oracle of Loxias. This prayer I make, when I behold these aged women, who, leaving their homes in Argos, now throw themselves with suppliant branches at my knees in their terrible trouble; for around the gates of Cadmus they have lost their seven noble sons, whom Adrastus, king of Argos, once led there, eager to secure for exiled Polyneices, his Argos, once led there, eager to secure for exiled Polyneices, his son-in-law, a share in the heritage of Oedipus; so now their mothers would bury in the grave the dead, whom the spear has slain, but the victors prevent them and will not allow them to take up the corpses, holding the laws of the gods in no honor. Here lies Adrastus on the ground with streaming eyes, sharing with them the burden of their prayer to me, and bemoaning the havoc of the sword and the sorry fate of the warriors whom he led from their homes. And he urges me to use entreaty to persuad
Athens (Greece) (search for this): card 1
slain chieftains stand nearby. Around the altar are the attendants of the goddess. Aethra Demeter, guardian of this Eleusinian land, and you servants of the goddess who attend her shrine, grant happiness to me and my son Theseus, to the city of Athens and the country of Pittheus, where my father reared me, Aethra, in a happy home, and gave me in marriage to Aegeus, Pandion's son, according to the oracle of Loxias. This prayer I make, when I behold these aged women, who, leaving their homes ine havoc of the sword and the sorry fate of the warriors whom he led from their homes. And he urges me to use entreaty to persuade my son to take up the dead and help to bury them, either by winning words or force of arms, laying on my son and on Athens this task alone. Now it happened that I had left my house and come to offer sacrifice on behalf of the earth's crop at this shrine, where first the fruitful corn showed its bristling shocks above the soil. And here at the holy altars of the two
Eleusis (Greece) (search for this): card 1
Before the temple of Demeter at Eleusis. On the steps of the great altar is seated Aethra. Around her, in the garb of suppliants, is the Chorus of Argive mothers. Adrastus lies on the ground before the altar, crushed in abject grief. The children of the slain chieftains stand nearby. Around the altar are the attendants of the goddess. Aethra Demeter, guardian of this Eleusinian land, and you servants of the goddess who attend her shrine, grant happiness to me and my son Theseus, to the city of Athens and the country of Pittheus, where my father reared me, Aethra, in a happy home, and gave me in marriage to Aegeus, Pandion's son, according to the oracle of Loxias. This prayer I make, when I behold these aged women, who, leaving their homes in Argos, now throw themselves with suppliant branches at my knees in their terrible trouble; for around the gates of Cadmus they have lost their seven noble sons, whom Adrastus, king of Argos, once led there, eager to secure for exiled Polyneic
Argos (Greece) (search for this): card 1012
Evadne Life's goal I now see from my station here; may fortune aid me in my leap; yes! in honor's cause I will hurl myself from this rock with a leap into the fire below, to mix my ashes in the ruddy blaze with my husband's, to lie side by side with him, there in the couch of Persephone, for never will I, to save my life, prove untrue to you where you lie in your grave. Away with life and marriage too! Oh! may my children live to see the dawn of a fairer, happier wedding-day in Argos! A pious wedded husband fused with the guileless airs of a noble wife!
Argive (Greece) (search for this): card 1031
ge meaning, father. Iphis You have no look of mourning for your lord. Evadne No, the reason why I am decked in this way is new, perhaps. Iphis Do you then appear before a funeral-pyre? Evadne Yes, for here it is I come to take the prize of victory. Iphis What victory do you mean? I want to learn this from you. Evadne A victory over all women on whom the sun looks down. Iphis In Athena's handiwork or in prudent counsel? Evadne In courage; for I will lie down and die with my lord. Iphis What are you saying? What is this foolish riddle you propound? Evadne To that pyre where dead Capaneus lies, I will leap down. Iphis My daughter, do not speak thus before the multitude! Evadne The very thing I wish, that every Argive should learn it. Iphis No, I will never consent to let you do this deed. Evadne It is all one; you shall never catch me in your grasp. See! I cast myself down, no joy to you, but to myself and to my husband blazing on the pyre with me.She leaps into the pyre.
Argos (Greece) (search for this): card 1072
Chorus chanting O lady, you have done a fearful deed! Iphis Ah me! I am undone, women of Argos! Chorus chanting Oh, oh! this is a cruel blow to you, but you must yet witness, poor wretch, the full horror of this deed. Iphis A more unhappy wretch than me you could not find. Chorus chanting Woe for you! you, old man, have been made partaker in the fortune of Oedipus, you and my poor city too.
Mycenae (Greece) (search for this): card 1123
Children I am bringing, I an bringing, poor mother, my father's bones from the fire, a burden grief has rendered heavy, though this tiny urn contains my all. Chorus Oh! Oh! Why bear your tearful load to the fond mother of the dead? A handful of ashes in the place of those who once were men of mark in Mycenae?
Argive (Greece) (search for this): card 113
Adrastus We failed and are ruined. We have come to you. Theseus Is this your own private resolve, or the wish of all the city? Adrastus The sons of Danaus, one and all, implore you to bury the dead. Theseus Why did you lead your seven armies against Thebes? Adrastus To confer that favor on the husbands of my two daughters. Theseus To which of the Argives did you give your daughters in marriage? Adrastus I made no match for them with kinsmen of my family. Theseus What! did you give Argive maids to foreigners? Adrastus Yes, to Tydeus, and to Polyneices, who was Theban-born. Theseus What induced you to select this alliance? Adrastus Dark riddles of Phoebus stole away my judgment. Theseus What did Apollo say to determine the maidens' marriage? Adrastus That I should give my two daughters to a wild boar and a lion. Theseus How do you explain the message of the god? Adrastus One night two exiles came to my door— Theseus The name of each declare; you are speaking of both t
Argos (Greece) (search for this): card 113
have come a suppliant to you and to your city. Theseus What do you hunt? What need is yours? Adrastus Do you know how I led an expedition to its ruin? Theseus Yes, you did not pass through Hellas in silence. Adrastus There I lost the pick of Argos' sons. Theseus These are the results of that unhappy war. Adrastus I went and demanded their bodies from Thebes. Theseus Did you rely on heralds, Hermes' servants, in order to bury them? Adrastus 1 did; and even then their slayers did not leur just request? Adrastus Say! Success makes them forget how to bear their fortune. Theseus Have you come to me then for counsel? or why? Adrastus With the wish that you, Theseus, should recover the sons of the Argives. Theseus Where is your Argos now? Were its boasts all in vain? Adrastus We failed and are ruined. We have come to you. Theseus Is this your own private resolve, or the wish of all the city? Adrastus The sons of Danaus, one and all, implore you to bury the dead. Theseus
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