460s BC

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For he does not wish to appear the bravest, but to be the bravest.

Aeschylus

Seven Against Thebes

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Topic

Appearance vs. reality Character Virtue

Speaker

Scout

Author

Aeschylus

Source

Seven Against Thebes

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

467 BC 460s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aeschylus. Ἑπτὰ ἐπὶ Θήβας [Seven Against Thebes]. c. 467 BC, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. "Seven Against Thebes." The Persians and Other Plays, edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Penguin Classics, 2010.

In view of that, conceal nothing! For all things are unfolded by all-seeing and all-hearing time.

Sophocles

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Topic

Forthrightness Openness

Author

Sophocles

Source

Hipponous

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

468 BC 460s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments. c. 468 BC, frag. 301.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Hipponous." Fragments, edited and translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Harvard University Press, 1996, frag. 301.

Now I live in hope, but the end is in the hands of gods.

Pindar

Olympian Odes

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Topic

God is in control

Author

Pindar

Source

Olympian Odes

Medium

Poem

Language

Greek

Time

464 BC 460s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pindar. Olympian Odes. c. 464 BC.

Current Citation

Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008.

He who commands the sea has command of everything.

Themistocles

Quoted in Letters to Atticus, by Cicero

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Topic

Naval power Ocean and sea

Speaker

Themistocles

Author

Cicero

Source

Letters to Atticus

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

462 BC 460s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Themistocles. Quoted in Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus], by Marcus Tullius Cicero. 1 century BC, bk. 10, no. 8.

Current Citation

Themistocles. Quoted in Cicero: Letters to Atticus, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Vol. 2, Harvard, University Press, 1999, bk. 10, no. 8.