Alexander (Paris)
quoted 8 times by 3 works · as a person
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.
4 quoted · 4 reported
7 neutral 1 refutedin the voice of Hektor 4 , Helen 1 , Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite 1 , narrator 1 , unnamed critics/accusers 1
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in the voice of Hektor
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Iliad Homer 5 neutral 5 citations
Hektor's rebuke is given as direct first-person speech introduced by 'Then Hektor upbraided him.'
While they were thus praying to the daughter of great Zeus, Hektor went to the fair house of Alexander, which he had built for him by the foremost builders in the land.
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in the voice of Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite
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Helen Isocrates 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 citations · 4 passages
Reports the three goddesses' offers to Alexander as reported speech central to the Judgment of Paris narrative.
For not much later when strife arose among the goddesses for the prize of beauty, and Alexander, son of Priam, was appointed judge and when Hera offered him sovereignty over all Asia, Athena victory in war, and Aphrodite Helen as his wife, finding himself unable to make a distinction regarding the charms of their persons, but overwhelmed by the sight of the goddesses, Alexander, compelled to make …
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in the voice of narrator
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages
The passage reports Alexander's thoughts and reasoning in close paraphrase across several paragraphs, constituting a reported speech act of deliberation.
So, indeed, I think Alexander, when he chanced to be at leisure on Ida about the cattle, such a thought and desire came upon him—that it is a happy and blessed thing to have the fairest of all women, and that neither kingship is worth this prize, nor wealth, nor to prevail in war over all men—and after this he began to consider who and among whom such a woman was, and whence such a marriage might be his;
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