Thursday, March 07, 2024
Prayer for Protection
Sophocles, Oedipus the King 159-166 (tr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones, with critical apparatus from the Oxford Classical Text edition):
Hugh Lloyd-Jones and Nigel Wilson, Sophoclea: Studies on the Text of Sophocles (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990; rpt. 2011), p. 83:
See also their Sophocles: Second Thoughts (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1997 = Hypomnemata, 100), pp. 49-50.
Related post: The Throne of Artemis.
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On you first I call, daughter of Zeus, immortal Athena, and I implore your sister who protects the land, Artemis, seated on her round throne, far-famed, in the market-place, and Phoebus the far-darter; appear to me, all three, to ward off doom! If in time past when destruction loomed over the city you drove the flames of ruin far away, come now also!
πρῶτα σὲ κεκλόμενος, θύγατερ Διός, ἄμβροτ᾿ Ἀθάνα,
γαιάοχόν τ᾿ ἀδελφεὰν 160
Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ κυκλόεντ᾿ ἀγορᾶς θρόνον εὐκλέα θάσσει,
καὶ Φοῖβον ἑκαβόλον, ἰώ,
τρισσοὶ ἀλεξίμοροι προφάνητέ μοι,
εἴ ποτε καὶ προτέρας ἄτας ὕπερ ὀρνυμένας πόλῃ 164/5
ἠνύσατ᾽ ἐκτοπίαν φλόγα πήματος, ἔλθετε καὶ νῦν.
Related post: The Throne of Artemis.
