{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0006.tlg015.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg015.local001","title":"Φοίνισσαι","titleGreek":"Φοίνισσαι","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Euripides","authorityName":"EURIPIDES Trag.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0006-euripides/","editors":["Gilbert Murray"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Euripidis Fabulae","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1913","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/euripidisfabulae03euri_0/page/n83/","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Euripides. Φοίνισσαι. ed. Gilbert Murray. Euripidis Fabulae, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1913. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg015.local001","excerpt":"Ἰοκάστη ὦ τὴν ἐν ἄστροις οὐρανοῦ τέμνων ὁδὸν καὶ χρυσοκολλήτοισιν ἐμβεβὼς δίφροις Ἥλιε, θοαῖς ἵπποισιν εἱλίσσων φλόγα, ὡς δυστυχῆ Θήβαισι τῇ τόθʼ ἡμέρᾳ ἀκτῖνʼ ἐφῆκας, Κάδμος ἡνίκʼ ἦλθε γῆν τήνδʼ, ἐκλιπὼν Φοίνισσαν ἐναλίαν χθόνα· ὃς παῖδα γήμας Κύπριδος Ἁρμονίαν ποτὲ Πολύδωρον ἐξέφυσε, τοῦ δὲ Λάβδακον φῦναι λέγουσιν, ἐκ δὲ τοῦδε Λάιον. ἐγὼ δὲ παῖς μὲν κλῄζομαι Μενοικέως, — Κρέων τʼ ἀδελφὸς μητρὸς ἐκ μιᾶς ἔφυ — καλοῦσι δʼ Ἰοκάστην με· τοῦτο γὰρ πατὴρ ἔθετο. γαμεῖ δὲ Λάιός μʼ· ἐπεὶ δʼ ἄπαις ἦν χρόνια λέκτρα τἄμʼ ἔχων ἐν δώμασιν, ἐλθὼν ἐρωτᾷ Φοῖβον ἐξαιτεῖ θʼ ἅμα παίδων ἐς οἴκους ἀρσένων κοινωνίαν. ὃ δʼ εἶπεν· ὦ Θήβαισιν εὐίπποις ἄναξ, μὴ σπεῖρε τέκνων ἄλοκα δαιμόνων βίᾳ· εἰ γὰρ τεκνώσεις παῖδʼ, ἀποκτενεῖ σʼ ὁ φύς, καὶ πᾶς σὸς οἶκος βήσεται διʼ αἵματος. ὃ δʼ ἡδονῇ δοὺς ἔς τε βακχείαν πεσὼν ἔσπειρεν ἡμῖν παῖδα· καὶ σπείρας, βρέφος γνοὺς τἀμπλάκημα τοῦ θεοῦ τε τὴν φάτιν, λειμῶνʼ ἐς Ἥρας καὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Episode 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-1"},{"label":"Choral 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-2"},{"label":"Episode 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-3"},{"label":"Choral 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-4"},{"label":"Episode 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-5"},{"label":"Choral 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-6"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-7"},{"label":"Choral 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-8"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-9"},{"label":"Choral 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-10"},{"label":"Episode 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/#tlg0006-tlg015-local001-11"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0006.tlg015.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0006/tlg015/local001.json.gz"}}