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absurd, dream commands Moxon, Peter's Halakhic Nightmare: The 'Animal' Vision of Acts 10:9–16 in Jewish and Graeco-Roman Perspective (2017) 212
absurd, hypotheticals Hidary, Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash (2017) 159, 160, 161
absurdity Lynskey, Tyconius’ Book of Rules: An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics (2021) 72, 107, 108, 213
absurdity, reduction to d'Hoine and Martijn, All From One: A Guide to Proclus (2017) 50, 68, 176, 208

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2 validated results for "absurdity"
1. Aristophanes, The Rich Man, 1097-1101 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Aristophanes ridicule of seers in • nonsense

 Found in books: Kanellakis, Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise (2020) 134; Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 113

οὐδεὶς ἔοικεν: ἀλλὰ δῆτα τὸ θύριον, φθεγγόμενον ἄλλως κλαυσιᾷ. σέ τοι λέγω, σὺ τὴν θύραν ἔκοπτες οὑτωσὶ σφόδρα; "τίς ἔσθ ὁ κόπτων τὴν θύραν; τουτὶ τί ἦν;"
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2. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 8.30.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • insult / mockery / ridicule • ridicule and laughter

 Found in books: Gazzarri and Weiner, Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome (2023) 207; Graverini, Literature and Identity in The Golden Ass of Apuleius (2012) 81

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Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.