Heracles
quoted 25 times by 6 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Heracles 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.
20 quoted · 5 reported
19 neutral 2 refuted 4 endorsedin the voice of Chorus 3 , Hermes 3 , Admetus 2 , Amphitryon 2 , Megara 2 , Theseus 2 , Vice 2 , Athena 1 , Attendant 1 , Iolaus 1
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in the voice of Chorus
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Heracles Euripides 6 neutral 1 refuted 4 endorsed 11 citations · 54 passages
The Chorus's first stasimon is a sustained direct hymn recounting Heracles' Twelve Labors in praise of him.
and joined with her you nymphs of Asopus, come from your father’s waves to add your voices to our hymn, the victor’s prize that Heracles has won.
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in the voice of Hermes
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 4 neutral 4 citations · 6 passages
Hermes's instruction to Heracles is rendered as direct speech.
And when Heracles, being young and ambitious, was eager to behold what was within, "Follow, then," he said, "that you may clearly see the difference of the rest, which escapes the foolish.
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in the voice of Admetus
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Alcestis Euripides 3 neutral 3 citations · 45 passages
Admetus directly answers Heracles's questions ambiguously ('she lives, yet lives no more') to conceal that his own wife has died.
’Twas not because of any slight or unkind thought of thee that I concealed my wife’s sad fate;
alcestis ¶ -
in the voice of Vice
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Memorabilia Xenophon 3 neutral 3 citations · 7 passages
A sustained direct speech by the personified figure of Vice within the retold allegory, addressed to Heracles.
When they drew nigh to Heracles, the first pursued the even tenor of her way:
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in the voice of the Greeks
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The Histories Herodotus 1 neutral 1 refuted 2 citations · 6 passages
A Greek legend about Heracles is reported by Herodotus and then explicitly refuted using Egyptian religious law and plain implausibility.
Now it seems to me that by this story the Greeks show themselves altogether ignorant of the character and customs of the Egyptians;
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in the voice of Iolaus
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Shield of Heracles Hesiod 2 neutral 2 citations · 4 passages
The passage explicitly marks 'blameless Iolaus answered him again' before giving his words as direct speech.
” And blameless Iolaus answered him again:
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