the oracle of Zeus
quoted 2 times by 2 works · not held
Most often carried — quoted as a source. 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.
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in the voice of Amphinomos 1 , Dionysus 1
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in the voice of Dionysus
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Bacchae Euripides 1 citation
Dionysus cites the oracle of Zeus as the authoritative source for the prophecy that Kadmos will become a serpent and lead a barbarian chariot force.
And as the oracle of Zeus says, you will drive along with your wife a chariot of heifers, ruling over barbarians.
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in the voice of Amphinomos
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Odyssey Homer 1 citation
This quote event matches the citation of the oracles of Zeus, which Amphinomos invokes as an authority to legitimize or restrain the suitors' action.
Let us first take counsel of the gods, and if the oracles of Zeus advise it, I will both help to kill him myself, and will urge everyone else to do so;
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- extended
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