Altar
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the altar · altar · the sacred fire
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
On the Mysteries
Sacred altar involved in the bough incident and in oaths concerning paternity.
and when the Council had assembled, Callias, son of Hipponicus, who was wearing his ceremonial robes, rose and announced that a suppliant’s bough had been placed on the altar.
Was it not I myself who was bringing about my doom by putting the bough on the altar?
So Callias took hold of the altar and swore that the boy was his legitimate son by Chrysilla.
Against Conon
The altar used in the arbitration proceedings for swearing witnesses.
leading to the altar one at a time our witnesses who were present and putting them on oath;
Iphigenia in Tauris
The blood-stained altar of Artemis's temple where captured Greeks are ritually sacrificed.
And the altar, that drips with the slaughter of Hellenes?
The sacred fire within and the wide hollow of a cave.
Its dedications of hair, at least, are red with blood.
Hellenica
The altar within the council chamber to which Theramenes flees in a bid for sanctuary and lawful judgment before being forcibly removed.
When Critias had spoken these words, Satyrus dragged Theramenes away from the altar, and his servants lent their aid.
To be sure, said he, I know, I swear by the gods, only too well, that this altar will avail me nothing, but I wish to show that these Thirty are not only most unjust toward men, but also most impious toward the gods.
At this moment the herald of the Thirty ordered the Eleven to seize Theramenes;