1. I Had the Weirdest Dream Last Night… A B
Irony 101 A B
Oh, Crap—It’s Destiny A B
I’m About to Get My Pride On A B
The Bad News Bearers A B
Very Nearly Funny A B
Been There, Done That A B
You Dumbasses A B
It’s a Rhetorical World A B C
The Truth Hurts A B C

2. King Me A B
Tongue-Tied A B
This Isn’t Going to Be Pretty A B
Kickin’ It With K-nowledge A B
Curse Words A B C
Metaphornication A B
War is Hell A B
And If You Believe That, I’ve Got a Bridge... A B
Say What? A B
Mercy, Mercy Me A B

3. Thucydides p.150 (Pericles funeral oration)
When you see other people happy you will often be reminded of what used to make you happy too. One does not feel sad at not having some good thing which lies outside one’s experience: real grief is felt at the loss of something which one is used to.
Thucydides p.150
(Pericles funeral oration)

4. The Symposium 221D (Alcibaides describes Socrates)
There is a parallel for everyone—everyone else that is. But this man here is so unusual, that, search as you might, you’ll never find anyone else, alive or dead, who’s even remotely like him
The Symposium 221D
(Alcibaides describes Socrates)

5. The Symposium 211C (Diotima schematizes the “stairs” of love)
One goes always upwards for sake of this Beauty, starting out from beautiful things and using them like rising stairs…
The Symposium 211C
(Diotima schematizes the “stairs” of love)

6. “Wilt thou indeed destroy the righteous with the wicked?”
Genesis 18.23
(Abraham questions God about the destruction of Sodom)

7. I must speak that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
Job 32.20
(Elihu begins his rebuttal)

8. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
John 12.24

9. You can see now the point of our customs: they are designed to separate the wheat from the chaff, the proper love from the vile.
The Symposium 184A
(Pausanias explains the relationship to male/male courtship to love itself)

10. Thucydides p.76 (The Corinthians describe Athens to Sparta)
Their view of a holiday is to do what needs doing; they prefer hardship and activity to peace and quiet. In a word, they are by nature incapable of either living a quiet life themselves or of allowing anyone else to do so.
Thucydides p.76
(The Corinthians describe Athens to Sparta)

11. Euripides, Medea 492-494 (Medea to Jason)
Indeed, I cannot tell whether you think the gods whose names you swore by then have ceased to rule and that new standards are set up…
Euripides, Medea
(Medea to Jason)

12. Job 13.18-19 (Job calls out God)
Behold, I have prepared my case; I know I shall be vindicated. Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Job
(Job calls out God)

13. Thucydides p. 85 (Sparta explains how it thinks and how it prepares)
There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much from one another: but it is sure that the one who come out on top are those who have been trained in the hardest school.
Thucydides p. 85
(Sparta explains how it thinks and how it prepares)

14. The Symposium 173D (Apollodorus indicts all non-philosophers)
Perhaps, in your turn, you think I’m a failure, and, believe me, I think that what you think is true. But as for all of you, I don’t just think you are failures—I know it for a fact.
The Symposium 173D
(Apollodorus indicts all non-philosophers)

15. But now there’s hatred everywhere. Love is diseased.
Euripides, Medea 16
(Nurse’s opening monologue)

16. You are simply victims of your own pleasure of listening, and are more like an audience sitting at the feet of a professional lecturer than a parliament discussing matters of state.
Thucydides p. 214
(Cleon upbraids the Athenians for their indecision in executing the Mytileneans)

17. Hymn to Demeter 326-329 (Gods cannot appease Demeter)
They ran to her, and each in his turn summoned her and gave her many beautiful gifts and whatever honors she might want to choose among the immortals. But no one could persuade…
Hymn to Demeter
(Gods cannot appease Demeter)

18. Sophocles, Oedipus the King 1522-1524 (Creon admonishes Oedipus)
Do not seek to be master in everything, for the things you mastered did not follow you throughout your life.
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
(Creon admonishes Oedipus)

19. Luke 24.38-39 (Jesus, on the road to Emmaus, post resurrection)
Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is myself; handle me and see.
Luke
(Jesus, on the road to Emmaus, post resurrection)

20. (After being found guilty, Socrates discusses his proper punishment)
Since I’m convinced that I’ve done injustice to no one, however, I’m certainly not likely to do myself injustice, to announce that I deserve something bad and to propose a penalty of that sort for myself.
Plato, The Apology 37b, 2-5
(After being found guilty, Socrates discusses his proper punishment)

21. The difficult thing, gentlemen, isn’t escaping death; escaping villainy is much more difficult, since it runs faster than death.
Plato, The Apology 39a, 6-8
(Socrates explains why his death sentence is not the worst thing that could happen to him)

22. Aristophanes, The Clouds 1077-1078 (Inferior Argument makes his case)
But if you choose to make my acquaintance, your nature can run free, with a spring in your step and a smile on your face!
Aristophanes, The Clouds
(Inferior Argument makes his case)

23. Genesis 11.6 (God expresses dismay over the tower of Babel)
This is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing they propose to do now will be impossible for them…
Genesis 11.6
(God expresses dismay over the tower of Babel)

24. (Description of the social chaos that the plague caused. )
As for what is called honour, no one showed himself willing to abide by its laws, so doubtful was it whether one would survive to enjoy the name for it.
Thucydides p. 155
(Description of the social chaos that the plague caused. )

25. But I came, _____, who knew nothing, and I stopped her
But I came, _____, who knew nothing, and I stopped her. I solved the riddle by wits alone. Mine was no knowledge got from birds.
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
(Oedipus responds to the suffering Thebans)

26. Iliad, VI.145-149 (Glaukos to Diomedes)
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity….So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
Iliad, VI
(Glaukos to Diomedes)

27. Thucydides p.161 (Pericles explains the problems of becoming powerful)
Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.
Thucydides p.161
(Pericles explains the problems of becoming powerful)

28. You cannot see them, but I see them. I am driven from this place
You cannot see them, but I see them. I am driven from this place. I can stay here no longer.
Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers
(The Furies begin to hound Orestes)

29. Genesis 50.20 (Joseph explains why he forgives his brothers)
As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.
Genesis 50.20
(Joseph explains why he forgives his brothers)

30. Iliad, XXII. 262 (Achilles rejects Hektor’s entreaty)
As there are no trustworthy oaths between men and lions, nor wolves and lambs have spirit that can be brought to agreement but forever these hold feelings of hate for each other, so there can be no love between you and me…
Iliad, XXII. 262
(Achilles rejects Hektor’s entreaty)

31. Herodotus 1.46 (Herodotus explains how Croesus tested the oracles)
They were to have the response of each of the oracles written down and then they were to bring them back to him
Herodotus 1.46
(Herodotus explains how Croesus tested the oracles)

32. O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you?
Luke 9.41
(Jesus)

33. Aeschylus, The Eumenides 101-102 (Clytaemestra calls for vengeance)
I suffered, too, horribly, and from those most dear, yet none among the powers is angered for my sake…
Aeschylus, The Eumenides
(Clytaemestra calls for vengeance)

34. He has made me a byword of the peoples.
Job 17.6
(Job laments his infamy, and recognizes it)

35. Homer, The Odyssey IX. 112-115 (Odysseus describing the Cyclopes)
These people have no institutions, no meetings for counsels; rather they make their habitations in caverns hollowed among peaks and high mountains, and each one is the law for his own wives and children, and cares nothing about the others.
Homer, The Odyssey IX
(Odysseus describing the Cyclopes)

36. The end result of this demonstration is the very future of education!
Aristophanes, The Clouds
(The Chorus introduces the contest between the Superior and Inferior arguments)

37. Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country.
Luke 4.24
(Jesus at the synagogue)

38. Euripides, Medea 201-203 (Nurse)
But why raise to no purpose the voice at a banquet? For there is already abundance of pleasure for men with a joy of its own.
Euripides, Medea
(Nurse)

39. Luke 6.40 (Jesus, in the parable of the blind leading the blind)
A disciple is not above his teacher, but every one when fully taught will be like his teacher.
Luke 6.40
(Jesus, in the parable of the blind leading the blind)

40. Genesis 35.2 (Jacob “converts” his household)
Put away the foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments.
Genesis 35.2
(Jacob “converts” his household)

41. What man are you and whence? Where is your city? Your parents?
Homer, The Odyssey 170
(One of many introductory interrogations)

42. Homer, The Odyssey 276-277 (Mentor to Telemachos)
Few are the children who turn out to be equals of their fathers, and the greater number are worse; few are better than their father is
Homer, The Odyssey
(Mentor to Telemachos)

43. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1658-1660 (Clytaemestra addresses the Chorus)
We could not do otherwise than we did. If this is the end of suffering, we can be content broken as we are by the brute heel of angry destiny.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
(Clytaemestra addresses the Chorus)

44. Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, I pray you.
Genesis 40.8
(Joseph interprets the dreams of the Egyptian prisoners)

45. Homer, The Odyssey VIII. 479-481 (Odysseus to Demodokos)
For with all peoples upon the earth singers are entitled to be cherished and to their share of respect, since the muse has taught them her own way, and since she loves the company of all singers.
Homer, The Odyssey VIII
(Odysseus to Demodokos)

46. We have no right, therefore, to judge cities by their appearances rather than by their actual power…
Thucydides p.41
(Th. Investigates the accuracy of Homer and establishes his own methods)

47. Genesis 22.7 (Isaac to Abraham)
“Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
Genesis 22.7
(Isaac to Abraham)

48. (Metaneira gives Demophoon to Demeter to raise)
Nurture this child of mine, unexpected and late born, a gift of the gods, in answer to many prayers. If you should bring him up to the age of puberty, some tender woman may look on you with envy…
Hymn to Demeter
(Metaneira gives Demophoon to Demeter to raise)

49. (Eumaios the swineherd to a disguised Odysseus)
You too, old man of sorrows, since the spirit brought you here to me, do not try to please me nor spell me with lying words. It is not for that I will entertain and befriend you, but for fear of Zeus, the god of guests…
Homer, The Odyssey XIV
(Eumaios the swineherd to a disguised Odysseus)

50. The Symposium 191D (Aristophanes describes the purpose of love)
It calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.
The Symposium 191D
(Aristophanes describes the purpose of love)

51. Homer, The Odyssey XVI. 304-306 (Odysseus to Telemachus)
You and I alone will judge the faith of the women, and, besides these, we can make a trial of the serving men, to see whether any of them is true to us and full of humility…
Homer, The Odyssey XVI
(Odysseus to Telemachus)

52. Genesis 8.21 (God to Noah, establishing the covenant)
I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth…
Genesis 8.21
(God to Noah, establishing the
covenant)

53. Homer, The Odyssey XI. 104-105 (Tieresias to Odysseus in Hades)
But even so and still you might come back, after much suffering, if you can contain your own desire, and contain your companions’.
Homer, The Odyssey XI
(Tieresias to Odysseus in Hades)

54. I know you are all sick, yet there is not one of you, sick as you are, that is as sick as myself. Your several sorrows each have a single scope and touch but one of you. My spirit groans for city and myself and you at once.
Sophocles, Oedipus the King 59-64
(Oedipus responds to the suffering Thebans)

55. What of these things goes now without disaster?
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 211
(Agamemnon ponders the choice between his army and his daughter)

56. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1138-1139 (Cassandra questions Apollo)
Why have you brought me here in all unhappiness? Why, why? Except to die with him? What else could be?
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
(Cassandra questions Apollo)

57. Iliad, XXII.303-305 (Hektor readies himself for death)
Let me at least not die without struggle, inglorious, but do some big thing first, that men shall come to know of it.
Iliad, XXII
(Hektor readies himself for death)

58. Herodotus 1.5 (Herodotus)
I will mention both equally because I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Herodotus 1.5
(Herodotus)

59. Genesis 28.20-21 (Jacob gives his conditions to God)
“If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear, so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, the LORD shall be my God.”
Genesis
(Jacob gives his conditions to God)

60. Herodotus 1.197 (Herodotus on the Babylonians)
Their next most sensible custom is as follows…where anyone who has had a personal experience of something similar to what the ill person is suffering from…comes up to him and offers him advice…
Herodotus 1.197
(Herodotus on the Babylonians)

61. I will show you proof of what I have explained
I will show you proof of what I have explained . There can be a father without any mother. There she stands, a living witness, daughter of Olympian Zeus…
Aeschylus, The Eumenides
(Apollo elevates fathers above mothers)

62. Job 15.6 (Eliphaz rebukes Job)
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
Job 15.6
(Eliphaz rebukes Job)

63. (The River, Skamandros, to Achilles in his areistia )
For the loveliness of my waters is crammed with corpses, I cannot find a channel to cast my waters into the bright sea….
Iliad, VI
(The River, Skamandros, to Achilles in his areistia )

64. Herodotus 7. 9 (Counselors of Xerxes debate going to war with Greece)
What they should do, since they all speak the same language, is make use of heralds and messengers to settle their differences, since anything would be preferable to fighting.
Herodotus 7. 9
(Counselors of Xerxes debate going to war with Greece)

65. Euripides, Medea 534-535 (Jason to Medea)
But on this question of saving me, I can prove certainly that you got more than you gave.
Euripides, Medea
(Jason to Medea)

66. (Medea steels her courage to kill her children)
Oh, arm yourself in steel my heart! Do not hang back from doing this fearful and necessary wrong.
Euripides, Medea
(Medea steels her courage to kill her children)

67. Iliad, XXII.179-181 (Athene to Zeus)
Do you wish to bring back a man who is mortal, one long since doomed by destiny, from ill-sounding death and release him? Do it, then; but not all the rest of us gods shall approve you.
Iliad, XXII
(Athene to Zeus)

68. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind…
Luke 10.27
(A lawyer responds to Christ’s question about what the divine law requires of man)

69. But none of the gods nor mortal men wanted to tell her the truth and none of the birds of omen came to her as a truthful messenger.
Hymn to Demeter 44-46

70. (Odysseus refuses to join the Phakian games)
Cares are more on my mind than games are, who before this have suffered hard and had many hardships.
Homer, The Odyssey
(Odysseus refuses to join the Phakian games)

71. Exiles feed on empty dreams of hope. I know it. I was one.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1678
(Aegisthus worries about Orestes)

72. (Agamemnon ponders the choice between his army and his daughter)
In the midst of dreams and whisper that a gnat’s thin wings could winnow broke my sleep apart. I thought I saw you suffer wounds more than the time that slept with me ever could.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
(Agamemnon ponders the choice between his army and his daughter)

73. Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 269-271 (Orestes to the Chorus)
The big strength of Apollo’s oracle will not forsake me. For he charged me to win through this hazard, with divination much, and speech articulate
Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers
(Orestes to the Chorus)

74. Do you imagine, then, that I’d have survived all these years if I’d been regularly active in public affairs, and had come to the aid of justice like a good man, and regarded that as important, as one should?
Plato, The Apology 32e, 1-4
(Socrates explains why he hasn’t been active in the political life of Athens)

75. Aeschylus, The Eumenides 984-986 (The Furies bless Athens)
Let them render grace for grace. Let love be their common will; let them hate with a single heart.
Aeschylus, The Eumenides
(The Furies bless Athens)

76. Luke 22.67-68 (Jesus to the priest and elders)
If I tell you, you will not believe, and if I ask you, you will not answer.
Luke
(Jesus to the priest and elders)

77. Genesis 3.19 (God to Adam, his punishment for the apple)
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground for out of it were you taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Genesis 3.19
(God to Adam, his punishment for the apple)

78. Job 42.5-6 (Job capitulates to God)
I had heard thee by the hearing of the ear but now my eye sees thee; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Job
(Job capitulates to God)

79. Homer, The Odyssey XXIII. 117-120 (Odysseus to Penelope)
But let us make our plans how we will all come out best for us. For when one has killed only one man in a community, and there are not many avengers to follow, even so, he flees into exile….
Homer, The Odyssey XXIII
(Odysseus to Penelope)

80. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1207-8 (Cassandra + Chorus)
Speaker 1: Yes, then. He wrestled with me, and he breathed delight. Speaker 2: Did you come to the getting of children, as people do?
Aeschylus, Agamemnon,
(Cassandra + Chorus)

81. Iliad, IX.496-498 (Phoinix to Achilles)
It is not yours to have a pitiless heart. The very immortals can be moved…
Iliad, IX
(Phoinix to Achilles)

82. So I stand forth a champion of the God and of the man who died
So I stand forth a champion of the God and of the man who died. Upon the murder I invoke this curse—whether he is one man or one of many.
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
(Oedipus responds to the suffering Thebans)

83. Iliad, II.485-486 (Homer invokes the Muses)
For you, who are goddesses, are there, and you know all things, and we have heard only the rumour of it and know nothing.
Iliad, II
(Homer invokes the Muses)

84. Job 19.24 (Job doin’ his thang)
Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock forever!
Job 19.24
(Job doin’ his thang)

85. Oh no. I’m finished. This is terrible
Oh no! I’m finished. This is terrible! If I don’t learn tongue twisting, then I’m lost without hope!
Aristophanes, The Clouds
(Strepsiades reacts to being kicked out of the Pondertarium)

86. If you can’t manage both, then at least make him learn the wrong one.
Aristophanes, The Clouds
(Strepseides tells Socrates how to teach Pheidippides)

87. Iliad, IX.496-498 (Phoinix to Achilles)
It is not yours to have a pitiless heart. The very immortals can be moved…
Iliad, IX
(Phoinix to Achilles)

88. Iliad, II.485-486 (Homer invokes the Muses)
For you, who are goddesses, are there, and you know all things, and we have heard only the rumour of it and know nothing.
Iliad, II
(Homer invokes the Muses)

89. Job 19.24 (Job doin’ his thang)
Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock forever!
Job 19.24
(Job doin’ his thang)

90. Oh no. I’m finished. This is terrible
Oh no! I’m finished. This is terrible! If I don’t learn tongue twisting, then I’m lost without hope!
Aristophanes, The Clouds
(Strepsiades reacts to being kicked out of the Pondertarium)

91. If you can’t manage both, then at least make him learn the wrong one.
Aristophanes, The Clouds
(Strepseides tells Socrates how to teach Pheidippides)

92. Iliad, IV. 14-16 (Zeus ponders his role in the war)
Let us consider then how these things shall be accomplished, whether again to stir up grim warfare and the terrible fighting, or cast down love….
Iliad, IV
(Zeus ponders his role in the war)

93. I have never attempted to bamboozle you by rehashing the same old tired material over and over again
Aristophanes, The Clouds 547
(From the Parabisis, chorus leader speaking for Aristophanes)

94. Plato, The Apology 17c, 4-6 (Socrates addresses the jury)
Instead, what you hear will be spoken extemporaneously in whatever words come to mind, and let none of you expect me to do otherwise—for I put my trust in the justice of what I say.
Plato, The Apology 17c, 4-6
(Socrates addresses the jury)

95. Thucydides p. 402 (Melian Dialogue, and the question of neutrality)
Speaker 1: So you would not agree to our being neutral, friends instead of enemies, but allies of neither side? Speaker 2: No, because it is not so much your hostility that injures us; it is rather the case that, if were on friendly terms with you, our subjects would regard that as a sign of weakness in us, whereas your hatred is evidence of our power.
Thucydides p. 402
(Melian Dialogue, and the question of neutrality)

96. Iliad, IV. 14-16 (Zeus ponders his role in the war)
Let us consider then how these things shall be accomplished, whether again to stir up grim warfare and the terrible fighting, or cast down love….
Iliad, IV
(Zeus ponders his role in the war)

97. I have never attempted to bamboozle you by rehashing the same old tired material over and over again
Aristophanes, The Clouds 547
(From the Parabisis, chorus leader speaking for Aristophanes)

98. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world knew him not.
John 1.10

99. (Artabanus, a confidante of Xerxes, tries to explain dreams)
The visions that occur to us in dreams are, more often than not, the things we have been concerned about during the day.
Herodotus 7.16
(Artabanus, a confidante of Xerxes, tries to explain dreams)

100. (Odysseus among the Greek warriors, consolidating Agamemnon’s power)
Let there be one ruler, one king, to whom the son of devious-devising Kronos gives the sceptre and the right of judgment, to watch over his people.
Iliad, I
(Odysseus among the Greek warriors, consolidating Agamemnon’s power)

101. Thucydides p.47 (Th. critiques a complacent attitude toward history)
Most people, in fact, will not take trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
Thucydides p.47
(Th. critiques a complacent attitude toward history)

102. Herodotus 1.8 (Candalus to Gyges)
I don’t think you believe me about my wife’s looks—and it’s true that people trust their ears less than their eyes—so I want you to find a way to see her naked.
Herodotus 1.8
(Candalus to Gyges)

103. (The advisers of Cambyses find a way to avoid rebuking him)
They said that they could find no law inviting a man to marry his own sister, but that they found another rule that the ruler of the Persians could do whatever he wanted.
Herodotus 3.31
(The advisers of Cambyses find a way to avoid rebuking him)

104. The Symposium 216B (Alcibaides laments how Socrates has affected him)
My whole life has become a constant effort to escape from him and keep away, but when I see him, I feel ashamed, because I’m doing nothing about my way of life…
The Symposium 216B
(Alcibaides laments how Socrates has affected him)

105. The Symposium 206C (Diotima explains to Socrates the object of love)
Pregnancy, reproduction—this is an immortal thing for a mortal animal to do, and it cannot occur in anything that is out of harmony, but ugliness is out of harmony with all that is beautiful.
The Symposium 206C
(Diotima explains to Socrates the object of love)

106. (Diotima illustrates what it means to desire wisdom)
And if a thing’s not wise, it’s ignorant? Or haven’t you found out yet that there’s something in-between wisdom and ignorance?
The Symposium 202AD
(Diotima illustrates what it means to desire wisdom)

107. The Symposium 221D (Aristophanes mocks Eryximachus)
The hiccups have stopped all right---but not before I applied the Sneeze Treatment to them.
The Symposium 221D
(Aristophanes mocks Eryximachus)

108. So I stand forth a champion of the God and of the man who died
So I stand forth a champion of the God and of the man who died. Upon the murder I invoke this curse—whether he is one man or one of many.
Sophocles, Oedipus the King
(Oedipus responds to the suffering Thebans)

109. Thucydides p.422 (Alicibaides argues for invading Sicily)
Remember, too, that the city, like everything else, will wear out of its own accord if it remains at rest, and its skill in everything grow out of date; but in conflict it will constantly be gaining new experience and getting used to defend itself not by speeches, but by action.
Thucydides p.422
(Alicibaides argues for invading Sicily)

110. Herodotus 1.32 (Croesus to Solon)
My dear guest from Athens, do you hold our happiness in utter contempt? Is that why you are ranking us lower even than ordinary citizens?
Herodotus 1.32
(Croesus to Solon)

111. (Demeter curses? Prophesizes? The future of the Greeks.)
In due time as the years revolve for him, the sons of the Eleusinians will join in war and dreadful battle against each other forever.
Hymn to Demeter
(Demeter curses? Prophesizes? The future of the Greeks.)

112. The Histories III.35 (Cambyses explains a curious proof)
There is your son. I’ll shoot at him, and if I hit him right in the heart, that will be proof that the Persians are talking non-sense…
The Histories III.35
(Cambyses explains a curious proof)

113. Hymn to Demeter 83-85 (Hecate reasons with Demeter)
Not an unseemly bridgegroom among immortals is Aidoneus, lord of many, your own brother from the same seed.
Hymn to Demeter 83-85
(Hecate reasons with Demeter)

114. Medea 889-893 (Medea suckers Jason)
But we women are what we are—perhaps a little foolish. Now I give in and admit that I was wrong. I have come to a better understanding now.
Medea
(Medea suckers Jason)