The sources of Memorabilia

1. Homer 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   book 4 2 passages anchored here

   Homer is explicitly invoked as a textual authority connected with rhapsodic performance.

   He said that Homer gave Odysseus the credit of being a safe speaker because he had a way of leading the discussion from one acknowledged truth to another.

2. Iliad Homer 2 authority 2 citations · 7 passages

   book 1 3 passages anchored here · book 3 4 passages anchored here

   The Homeric passage is explicitly quoted as a poetic authority both by the accuser and, in reinterpreted form, by Socrates' defenders.

   Or what reason can Homer have for praising Agamemnon as both a good king and a doughty warrior too’?

3. Odyssey Homer 1 neutral · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   book 1 · book 2

   Socrates favourably invokes the Circe episode as an exemplar of self-restraint, indicating approval of the poem's account.

   and it was partly by the prompting of Hermes, partly through his own self-restraint and avoidance of excessive indulgence in such things, that Odysseus was not turned into a pig.

4. Works and Days Hesiod 2 endorsed 2 citations · 4 passages

   book 1 3 passages anchored here · book 2

   Hesiod's line is explicitly quoted and, once properly interpreted by Socrates, is said to contain 'nothing amiss,' indicating the passage ultimately endorses its meaning.

   He was charged with explaining this line as an injunction to refrain from no work, dishonest or disgraceful, but to do anything for gain.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

book 1 11 sources

Oracular response of the Pythia at Delphi · The Indictment against Socrates · Written accusation against Socrates (unnamed) · decree of the Thirty forbidding the teaching of the art of words · oracular responses to the Athenians · the counsellor's oath (Athenian law) · the teaching of the sophists (wisdom offered for a fee) · the writings of the wise men of old · unnamed written and spoken criticisms of Socrates · unspecified elegiac verse · unspecified verse on sacrifice

book 2 6 sources

Aspasia's teaching on truthful matchmaking · Athenian law and custom on filial impiety · On Heracles · Unnamed verses of Epicharmus · the fable of the sheep and the dog · the traditional tale of Scylla and the Sirens

book 3 7 sources

Acumenus' prescription · Athenian ancestral tradition concerning Cecrops, Erechtheus, Theseus, and the Persian Wars generation · Lacedaemonian customs of training and reverence for age · Laws concerning human conduct · Laws concerning worship of the gods · popular usage regarding love and madness · the Delphic injunction to self-knowledge ('know yourself')

book 4 10 sources

Anaxagorean doctrine of the sun · Delphic oracle on pleasing the gods · Delphic temple inscription · Divine ordinances concerning justice · Greek civic oath of agreement · Law delaying public execution during the Dêlia · Laws concerning requiting benefits · Lycurgan Spartan law · Poetic tradition about Palamedes · Unwritten laws

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the book that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of this book is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 1 citation

   book 2

   Xenophon is named directly and quoted at length as an approved authority on the vice of pleasure.

   And Xenophon too, plainly calling pleasure a vice, says: