The sources of Orestes
Where Orestes names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 2 citations across 1 chapter, drawn from 2 named sources; 0 of those sources stand in the library. 1 work in the library quotes it back.
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2 sourcesEach stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.
- orestes 2 sources
- The Delphic oracle commanding Orestes to kill his mother · The ancestral law of Hellas on bloodguilt (exile, not revenge)
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Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 citation
The specific play is named and its verses invoked with approval via Socrates
And so not without cause, when Euripides was producing the play Orestes, Socrates is said to have called back the first three verses:
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