The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Index Database

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All subjects (including unvalidated):

subject	book bibliographic info
beggars, begging,	Richlin (2018) 100, 101, 364
begging	Gardner (2015) 5, 6, 7, 77, 152, 171 Malherbe et al (2014) 22, 156, 214, 549
begging, alternatives to	Gardner (2015) 2, 78, 81, 86, 147, 148, 153, 158, 173, 174, 179
begging, at doorways	Gardner (2015) 7, 76, 77, 144, 148, 165, 166, 167
begging, at sacred spaces	Gardner (2015) 5, 6
begging, by wellborn poor	Gardner (2015) 141
begging, cynic	Malherbe et al (2014) 156, 161, 645
begging, epicureanism	Malherbe et al (2014) 526
begging, for, isis, ritual	Lupu(2005) 44
begging, impact on non-poor	Gardner (2015) 147, 148
begging, in public	Gardner (2015) 6, 169
begging, location of beggars	Richlin (2018) 98
begging, not giving to, beggars,	Gardner (2015) 7, 77, 78, 169
begging, opposite of kings, beggars	Richlin (2018) 100, 435, 442
begging, prevalence of	Gardner (2015) 2
begging, priests	Bremmer (2008) 237
begging, priests and priestesses	Mikalson (2010) 45, 52, 106, 129, 213
begging, priests, justice, adikemata and	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 258
begging, problems with	Gardner (2015) 2, 4, 158
begging, shame of	Gardner (2015) 5, 6, 7, 56, 62, 169
begs, for deliverance from jaws of enemies, licinius crassus, l., orator	Walters (2020) 71
sorcerers/begging, priests, religious authority	Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 299, 300, 301

List of validated texts:

6 validated results for "begging"

1. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cretan Beggars oaths (Odysseus) • Homer, Odysseus, beggar, false/old • beggars • oaths sworn by Cretan Beggar

Found in books: Gygax and Zuiderhoek (2021) 26, 32; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 1881; Toloni (2022) 25

2. Plato, Euthyphro, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • priests and priestesses, begging • priests, begging priests (ἀγύρται)

Found in books: Mikalson (2010) 129; Álvarez (2019) 81

3c. ΣΩ. ὦ φίλε Εὐθύφρων, ἀλλὰ τὸ μὲν καταγελασθῆναι ἴσως οὐδὲν πρᾶγμα. Ἀθηναίοις γάρ τοι, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, οὐ σφόδρα μέλει ἄν τινα δεινὸν οἴωνται εἶναι, μὴ μέντοι διδασκαλικὸν τῆς αὑτοῦ σοφίας· ὃν δʼ ἂν καὶ ἄλλους οἴωνται''. None

3c. Socrates. My dear Euthyphro, their ridicule is perhaps of no consequence. For the Athenians, I fancy, are not much concerned, if they think a man is clever, provided he does not impart his clever notions to others; but when they think he makes others to be like himself,''. None

3. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • beggars, begging • begging

Found in books: Gardner (2015) 171; Richlin (2018) 364

4. New Testament, 1 Timothy, 6.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Epicureanism, begging • begging • begging, shame of

Found in books: Gardner (2015) 56; Malherbe et al (2014) 526, 549

6.8. ἔχοντες δὲ διατροφὰς καὶ σκεπάσματα, τούτοις ἀρκεσθησόμεθα.''. None

6.8. But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. ''. None

5. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • beggars • begging • begging, at sacred spaces • begging, shame of

Found in books: Gardner (2015) 5; Thonemann (2020) 122, 187

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Jews, beggars in Rome • beggars

Found in books: Isaac (2004) 464, 465; Tacoma (2016) 43

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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