Polyneices
quoted 6 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: Polyneices 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.
3 quoted · 3 reported
6 neutralin the voice of Messenger 2 , Antigone 1 , Creon 1 , Eteocles 1 , Theseus 1
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in the voice of Eteocles
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Phoenissae Euripides 5 neutral 5 citations
Eteocles's parting remark is a short but pointed direct speech act closing the scene.
It was a true name our father gave you, when, prompted by some god, he called you Polyneices, man of many quarrels.
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in the voice of Theseus
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Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles 1 neutral 1 citation · 6 passages
Theseus conveys the absent suppliant's request rather than quoting him directly.
They say a man—not from your city, yet of your race—has somehow thrown himself down, as a suppliant, at our altar of Poseidon, where I was sacrificing when I first set out here.
oedipus at colonus ¶
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