death was transferred from mother to child and at once by pitiless fate the breast bereft the young one the gift of life that it owed to the womb (Polyaenus of Sardis)

myself I recall this deed of past days and not of yesterday, how it was, and I will tell it among you who are all my friends (Iliad 9.527-605)

a cruel viper struck the nursing ... hung down full of milk ... sucked the teat contaminated by poison ... bitter milk charged with venom ill to cure (Polyaerus of Sardis)

working bitterness in the blood and faith lost, for the terror returns like sickness to lurk in the house; secret anger remembers the child that shall be avenged, rang out the voice of Kalchas (Agamemnon 152-155)

or was it perhaps, from the Areopaguς? The story is also told that she was carried away from there instead (Phaedruς 229d)

it is you who have destroyed me! yours was the wrongdoing! you are the cause of my affliction! so either you have decided to kill me by drowning ... you understand acts of foul murder (ΚRETANS fr 472e 33-37)

protector's acts begin to reproduce the legend of the temple ... λυκος ... does not withhold his hand from the shedding the blood (Politeia 565de)

The practice of medicine, has made it clear to me that drunkenness is harmful ... especially when his head is still heavy from a bout of the day before (Symposium 176d)

isn't this imitating concerned with something that is third from the truth? ... sight being misled by the colors ... puppeteering and many other tricks ... wizardly (Politeia 602b-d)

would she not reasonably be pitied than reviled? he performed terrible acts she suffered them so it is just to sympathize with her but to hate him (Yoryiaς 483-375 ΒCΕ)

its protectors those who aren't poets but lovers of poetry ... speak an argument without meter ... we shall listen benevolently ... for we shall gain if it is pleasant and beneficial (Politeia 607c-e)

it is you who have destroyed me! ... if you have decided to kill me by drowning go on and kill me - indeed you understand acts of foul murder (Kretans fr 472e 35-39)

but if she was seized by force and unlawfully violated and unjustly assaulted clearly the man who seized or assaulted did wrong (Yoryiaς 383-375 BCE)

the greatest and most powerful slander comes to philosophy from those who claim ... 'most of those who go to it are completely vicious and the most decent useless' (Politeia 489d)

do you want us next to go through the necessity of the viciousness of the many and to try to show, if we are able, that philosophy isn't to blame for that? (Politeia 489e)

tell me Soκrateς, isn't it from somewhere near this stretch of the Ilisus that people say Boreas carried Oreithuia away? ... playing nearby (Phaedrua 229b)

your Greek cleverness is simple barbarity ... child who never did you any harm (TW 764-779)

I wish, by adding some reasoning to my speech, to free the slandered woman from accusation and to demonstrate that those who blame her are lying ... show what is true (Yoryiaς 483-375 BCE)

Nobody is to sing a song not approved by the Guardians, not even if it be sweeter than the hymns of Thamyrus and Orpheus. (Laws 829d)

as Anytus advises and easily kill me, then you would pass the rest of your lives in slumber, unless God, in his care for you, should send someone else to sting you (Apology 31)

if love is a god ... human malady and incapacity of mind ... persuaded by speech or seized by force or compelled by divine Necessity ... in every case she escapes the accusation (Yoryiaς 483-375 BCE)

εταραχθη και εταραξε την ψυχην and some people on seeing frightful things have also lost presence of mind (Γοργιας 483-375 ΒCΕ)

but when painters complete out many colors and objects a single object and form, they please the sight (Yoryiaς 383-375 ΒCΕ)

Plutarch writes the deceiver handles more correctly, because he announces what he does (Plutarch c. AD 46, died Delphi, Greece)

let me die with her, and we shall be a double drink of blood for earth and the demanding ghost below, I must die with her! I shall stick to her like ivy to the oak (Eκabe 391-401)

the soldiers set to work some scattered leaves upon her corpse while others brought branches of pine and heaped her pyre (Εκαβη 568-75)

wretched people! is it my fault if I am roaming the country among you like a cheap fortune-teller? if I must hide and disguise myself as though I were a fallen woman and you my judges? (PHIL in the Tragic Age of the Greeks)

clad in invisibility bearing evil to the human beings who drive her out and who do not deal straight ... city suffers because of an evil man ... woe from the sky ... pestilence ... people die (Works and Days 223-42)

the judges who shall restore them to us shall judge you too ... to you they shall say go get yourselves a culture only then you will find out what philosophy can and will do. (PHIL in the Tragic Age of the Greeks)

audience broke into tears ... fined Phrynichuς ... their own evils OIKIA KAKA ... forbade forever the staging of that play (Herodotus.VI 21)

filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it ... praise or blame me ... this right hand that struck in strength of righteousness (Agamemnon 1397-1406)

and as he died he spattered me with dark red ... of bitter savored blood to make me glad as gardens stand among showers of God in glory at the birth time of the buds (Agamemnon 1389-92)

she with thoughts surpassingly grisly splashed the shame on herself and the rest of her sex on women still to come even on the one whose acts are virtuous (Odyssey XI 432-34)

some sign of a change ... father Zeus and if I speak too bold at all or out of place forgive me ... I am paralyzed by the din of the purple brine as it surges (Simonideς 566-73 BCE)

during her menstrual period chances to look into a polished mirror ... cloudy with a blood-colored haze ... the cleanest object shows up even the slightest stain (On Dreams 459b23-460a32)

... ourselves are charmed by them but it isn't holy to betray what seems to be the truth ... especially when you contemplate it through the medium of Homer (Politeia 607cd)

child's sweet fragrant body ... last and loveliest embrace of all ... come close to your mother lean against my breast and wind your arms around my neck (TW 757-63) Myκonos vase relief 670 BCE

mother heard ... sharp grief seized her heart and she tore the veil on her ambrosial hair with her one hands ...no one was willing to tell her the truth, not one of the gods or mortals (Hymn to Demeter 38-44)

told the biggest lie how Ouranos ... Hesiod says he did ... even if true ... few as possible ought to hear them as unspeakable secrets after making a sacrifice not of a pig (Politeia 377e-78a)

were hated by their own father from the beginning and as soon as any of them was born Ουρανος put them out of sight in a hiding place ... he rejoiced in his evil deed (Theogonia 155-59)

worse and any others born deformed they will hide away in an unspeakable and unseen place as is seemly (Politeia 460c)

Justice herself will not blame us we shall save the city ... bringing men of another ... ridicule over philosophy seeing her reviled spattered ... those who are responsible (Politeia 536bc)

the barbarian who undertook a barbaric undertaking in speech and in law and in deed deserves to receive accusation in speech debarment in law punishment in deed (Yoryiaς 483-375 BCE)

terror of necessity I lost Kassandra roughly torn from my arms before you came there is no numbering my losses infinitely misfortune comes to outrace misfortune known before (TW 616-21)

our apology that it was fitting to send her away ... her character ... argument determined ... lest it convict us for a certain harshness ... signs of this old opposition (Politeia 607bc)

the truth ... Dosa's my name ... by force and necessity ... against my will ... women stepped all together ... I escaped from my arrogant masters lest they should sell me (ΕΙΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑΝ 121-32)

plague introduced into the city lawlessness ... no fear of gods ... no one expected that he would live to be called to account and pay the penalty of misdeeds (Thuc. II LII-III)

the maker of the phantom, the imitator, we say, understands nothing of what is but rather of what looks like it is, isn't that so? (Politeia 601bc)

slave's feet ... straw sacks ... piled stones ... and die in an exhaustion of tears of all who walk in bliss call not one happy yet until the man is dead (TW 507-10)

shameless modes of burial ... lacked proper funeral materials resorting to other people's pyres ... throw the body they were carrying upon one which was already burning and go away (Thuc. II LII)

wheel where the world rides ... man's knowledge whoever ... Zeus ... necessity or mortal mind I call upon you for you walk the path none hears bring human action back to right (TW 884-88)

mortals are ignorant ... unable to foresee destiny the good and the bad coming on them ... build me a great temple with an alter beneath under the sheer wall of the city (ΕΙΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑΝ 256-72)

no end to this ordeal of suffering ... why do I live? I should have died long ago but Zeus kept me alive to suffer ... worse than all the grief that went before (Εκαβη 229-35)

ιατρικη θρηνωδιαν αφανιζοντα (Politeia 604d) heart in your breast of iron be careful now for I might be made into the θεων μηνιμα god's wrath upon you (Iliad XXII 356-58)

the old man prayed as he walked in solitude to King Apollo whom Leto of the lovely hair bore ... 'make the Danaans pay for my tears shed' ... corpse fires burned ... not stop burning (Iliad I 35-52)

they will take the offspring of the good and bring them ... live apart in a certain section of the city (Politeia 460c)

Theatre of Cruelty means a theatre difficult and cruel for myself first of all ... actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames ... signaling through the flames (Artaud)

if a man were able to make the thing to be imitated and the phantom ... serious about the crafting of the phantoms ... of his own life as the best thing he has? (Politeia 599a)

and as the offspring are born won't they be taken over by the officers established for this purpose men or women or both ... officers are common to both women and men (Politeia 460b)

burial vase depicting scenes of women and children being attacked by Greek warriors (Pithos of Mykonos 670 BCE)

never to let even a single fetus see the light of day if one should be conceived ... to deal with it on the understanding that there is to be no rearing for such a child (Politeia 461bc)

murdered me and threw my body to the sea here pounded by the surf my corpse still lies carried up and down on the heaving swell of the sea unmourned disembodied (Eκabe 26-29) Myκonos vase relief 670 BCE

yours the sick leap head downward from the height the fall where none have pity and the spirit smashed out in death (TW 755-59) Kleophràde Painter hydria 500-480 BCE

for a single one sheer death is emerging ... breaks her neck caught fast in the strong teeth then gulps down the blood and all the guts that are inward (Iliad XI 173-76)

Pollux 'rosy-fingers Eos grabs the body soma of her son Memnon ροδοδακτυλος Ηως αρπαζοντα το σωμα το Μεμνοντας' red-figure cup by the Doris Painter 8th century BCE

why kill this innocent ... never did you any harm ... seize ... hurl ... feed on his flesh if it is your will these are the gods who damn us to this death (TW 765-75)

but now I die and you must see my death butchered like a lamb squalling with fright and the trout held taut for the gashing knife (Eκabe 203-08) Attic black figure ca. 570-550 BCE

belong to all men ... no woman is to live privately with any man and children will be common and neither will a parent know own offspring nor a child its parent (Politeia 457d)

let none of the poets tell us that the gods like wandering strangers take on every sort of shape and visit the cities (Politeia 381d-82a)

look at my sister, Art! like me, she is in exile among the barbarians ... no longer know what to do with ourselves ... among you we have lost our rights (PHIL in the Tragic Age of the Greeks)

women guardians must strip ... clothe themselves in virtue instead of robes and they must take common part in war and the rest of the city's guarding (Politeia 457a)

I am led captive from my house ... as among winged birds, the mother, lead out the clashing cry, the song ... I know nothing, I look for disaster ... stunned with terror ... image of a corpse (TW 148-83)

as storms of snow descend to the ground incessant ... stones volleyed from both sides (Iliad XII 278-87) without being noticed by anyone but the rulers (Politeia 459de)

do I call upon the gods for help? ... they would not hear ... hear me it is your mother who calls ... dragged away ... this is the way forward into the slave's life (TW 1280-1330)

to draw scenes of desperation? ... silent dramas were all these figures clutched together one standing tightly close to the other as in ancient tragedy (K Hariati-Sismani)

what heart was I to become a spectator? ... separate myself from the other women to do my drawing? (K Hariati-Sismani 1975, Theat. of the Condemned Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands)

... wailings of renowned men and we'd give them to women ... nor taking black ashes in both hands ... Homer made him do, nor Priam, a near offspring of the gods, entreating (Politeia 387e- 88b)

my daughter's beloved child I hold here ... and that I still hold now that we are both dead (Greek Attic ca. 400-375 BCE grave inscription belongs to Ampharete)

if anything exists ... it is incommunicable (On Not-Being or On Nature)

the skins crawled and the meat that stuck on the spits bellowed both roast and raw ωμα and the noise was like the lowing voice φωνη (Odyssey XII 395-96)

I could go on for the whole of a year, and still not finish the story of my heart's tribulations ... hard work ... gods willed it ... my origin is from Krete (Od. XIV 196-99)

if this danger were danger to you why you would turn your tiny ear to my words Sleep my baby Sleep I tell you and let the sea Sleep and let our vast trouble Sleep (Simonideς of Keoς 556-468 BCE)

sculptures of Daedalus ... if they are not fastened they play truant ... runaway slave ... process is recollection ... fastened they turn into knowledge and are abiding (Meno 97d-98a)

you pay no attention to the deep spray above your hair as the wave passes by nor to the sound of the wind lying in your red blanket a lovely face (Simonideς of Keoς c.556-468 BCE)

and as far as frightening things are concerned many are omitted but those omitted are similar to those mentioned (Yoryiaς 483-375 BCE)

'why have you come? ... like one who has been terrified I know ... your husband frightened you' ... 'ask me nothing of this ... you yourself know ... his spirit ... stubborn and arrogant' (Iliad XV 90-94)

you can accomplish nothing surely ... but be more distant from my heart ... sit down in silence and do as I tell you for fear ... lay my unconquerable hands upon you (Iliad I 561-67)

but if she was seized by force and unlawfully violated and unjustly assaulted, clearly the man who seized or assaulted did wrong (Yoryiaς)

hurl no curse for fear the army, savage ... reckless ... forbid the child his burial ... be brave be silent ... hope that the child you leave behind will not be unburied (Trojan Women 733-38)

but the opposite was true for again and again with all her heart she begged him beguilingly (PINDAR Nemean 5)

does this apply to the imitation connected with the sight or also to that connected with the hearing which we made poetry? (Politeia 6503b)

your Greek cleverness is simple barbarity ... I have no strength to save my boy from execution ... the death of my own child (TROJAN WOMEN 762-77)

if the flock is going to be of eminent quality ... all this must come to pass without being noticed by anyone except the rulers (Politeia 459d)

The mass suicide of women and their children during the Souliote War in December 1803. The Dance of Zaloggou

when in the intricately carven chest the blasts of wind blowing and the sea stirring shattered her with fear her streaming cheeks wet as she put her loving arms about (Simonideς c. 556-468 BCE)

a great wave drove down ,,, horrible rush, and spun the raft in a circle ... thrown clear far from the raft and let the steering oar slip (Odyssey V 313-16)

a terrible gust of storm winds whirling together and blowing snapped ... from under the great rush of water ... got to the surface, and spat the bitter salt sea water (Odyssey V 316-23)

waves tossed her about the current now here now there as the North Wind in autumn tumbles and tosses thistledown along the plain ... winds tossed her on the great sea (Odyssey V 327-330)

now here, now there, and now it would be South Wind and North that pushed her between them and then again East Wind and West would burst in and follow (Odyssey V 330-33)

being carried over the sea and bewailing her fate (Simonideς of Keoς 556-468 BCE)

Simonides makes Danae say ... 'my child ... childish heart you slumber' in other lines he says as Archemorus 'they wept for the suckling babe ... breathed out ... sweet soul (Athenaeuς 170-220 AD)

my child what suffering is mine but you sleep and with babyish heart slumber in the dismal boat with its brazen bolts sent forth in the unlit night and dark blue murk (Simonides c. 556-468 BCE)

our rulers will have to use a throng of lies and deceptions for the benefit of the ruled ... that everything of this sort is useful as a form of remedy (Politeia 459c)

what concern have I with Erechtheus' daughter ... to leave a child to die which has been born ... all evil men are punished by the gods (Ion 433-41)

admit the sweetened muse in lyrics or epics pleasure and pain will jointly be kings in your city instead of law (Politeia 607a)

but may you give me back my παιδα child and take the ransom giving honor to Zeus' son who strikes from afar Apollo (Iliad I 20-21)

Aristophaneς (c. 447/76-386 BCE) poet, playwright of 'old' Attic comedy.

he is coming to tear your daughter from your breast and wrench her from your arms go to the temples! ... fall at his knees! call on heavens gods ... gods below! (Eκabe 143-47)

banishing threnody by therapy αφανιζοντα: make unseen, vanish, hide, remove, destroy, annihilate, disfigure, deface, cease ... οτι παλαια an ancient διαφοπα quarrel between philosophy and poetry (Politeia 604d, 607b)

the woman and children of Epirus (Souli) avoided enslavement by committing suicide. In a Greek place and time, my mother gathered wood. I similarly follow, but in a foreign and barbaric land.

in the city who happen to be older than ten ... send out to the country and taking over their children they will rear them far away (Politeia 540-41a)

have come to this sculpture αγαλμα of the goddess ... melting to tears like some gushing spring high up the cliff (Andromache 114-160 wood thread bamboo 2018 - present

bare not to see a suppliant by force led from these statues, seized by my garments (Suppliant Women 428-33) Greek Attic, Temple of Zeus west pediment 'Lapith women' c. 460-BCE

'you will fall down to the dear ground and be nameless ανωνυμοι' 'this is the way forward into the slave's life' (TW 1319-1330)

hear my lord, whoever you are. I come in great need to you, a fugitive from the sea ... to your knees after much suffering pity me then my lord, I call myself your suppliant (Odyssey V 445-50) (video/poem by Simonideς of Keoς c. 556-468 BCE)

washed up on shore ... I asked of the gods ... find my mother and be buried by her hands and they have granted my request ... I see my mother coming, stumbling (Eκabe 48-51)