Adrastus
quoted 7 times by 3 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Adrastus the figure
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
5 quoted · 2 reported
7 neutralin the voice of Theseus 3 , Croesus 2 , Adrastus 1 , Aethra 1
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in the voice of Theseus
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Suppliants Euripides 4 neutral 4 citations · 15 passages
Theseus directly addresses and rebukes Adrastus, articulating a political theory of the three classes as part of his refusal.
Adrastus, and ye dames from Argos sprung, ye see these children bearing in their hands the bodies of their valiant sires whom I redeemed;
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in the voice of Croesus
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The Histories Herodotus 2 neutral 2 citations · 4 passages
Direct speech by Croesus accepting Adrastus as a guest-friend
Having said this, Croesus sent for Adrastus the Phrygian and when he came addressed him thus:
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in the voice of Adrastus
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Panegyricus Isocrates 1 neutral 1 citation
Adrastus's appeal to Athens is reported as a speech act invoking ancient custom and law, and it is this appeal that prompts Athenian intervention at Thebes.
Adrastus, on his return from the expedition against Thebes where he had met with disaster and had not by his own efforts been able to recover the bodies of those who had fallen under the Cadmean fortress, called upon our city to lend aid in a misfortune which was of universal concern, and not to suffer that men who die in battle be left unburied nor that ancient custom and immemorial law be brought to naught.
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