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subject	book bibliographic info
ambrosia	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 284, 470, 475
ambrosia, of athens	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 282
ambrosia, the nymph	Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 26, 53, 56, 171, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 189, 190, 191, 194, 195

List of validated texts:

5 validated results for "ambrosia"

1. Sophocles, Antigone, 955-956, 959-960 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ambrosia • Ambrosia (the Nymph)

Found in books: Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 53; Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 284

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955 And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away.'⁹⁵⁶ And Dryas’s son, the Edonian king swift to rage, was tamed in recompense for his frenzied insults, when, by the will of Dionysus, he was shut in a rocky prison. There the fierce and swelling force of his madness trickled away. ⁹⁶⁰ That man came to know the god whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries. For he had sought to quell the god-inspired women and the Bacchanalian fire, ' None

2. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 3.65.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ambrosia • Ambrosia (the Nymph)

Found in books: Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 56; Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 284

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3.65.5 \xa0Consequently he sailed across secretly to his army, and then Lycurgus, they say, falling upon the Maenads in the city known as Nysium, slew them all, but Dionysus, bringing his forces over, conquered the Thracians in a battle, and taking Lycurgus alive put out his eyes and inflicted upon him every kind of outrage, and then crucified him.'' None

3. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ambrosia • Ambrosia (the Nymph)

Found in books: Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 171, 175, 178, 179, 189; Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 284

4. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ambrosia • Ambrosia (the Nymph)

Found in books: Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 189; Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 284

5. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Ambrosia • Ambrosia (the Nymph)

Found in books: Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 53, 56, 176, 177, 190; Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 284, 475

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.

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