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subject	book bibliographic info
bolt, contemporary historians, knobbed	Simon-Shushan (2012) 124, 127
bolt, liberalis, three types of jovian, manubiae	Williams (2012) 326, 329, 331
bolt, of zeus lightning	Pucci (2016) 48, 132, 133, 156, 166, 167
bolt, of zeus, oaths invoking, lightning	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 297, 298
bolt, sabbath formulations, apodictic, knobbed prohibition, story	Simon-Shushan (2012) 126
bolt, story, knobbed	Simon-Shushan (2012) 126, 127
bolts, earth, bodies in blessed or afflicted by moon-goddess, of barred by proserpina	Griffiths (1975) 2, 117
bolts, of earth, proserpine, repels ghosts with threefold countenance, keeps barred the	Griffiths (1975) 2, 117

List of validated texts:

3 validated results for "bolt"

1. Euripides, Bacchae, 6 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Zeus lightning bolt of • Zeus, thunderbolts and • thunderbolts of Zeus

Found in books: Pucci (2016) 166; Simon (2021) 301

6. ὁρῶ δὲ μητρὸς μνῆμα τῆς κεραυνίας''. None

6. I am here at the fountains of Dirke and the water of Ismenus. And I see the tomb of my thunder-stricken mother here near the palace, and the remts of her house, smouldering with the still living flame of Zeus’ fire, the everlasting insult of Hera against my mother.''. None

2. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 498-499 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Zeus lightning bolt of • Zeus,oaths invoking, lightning bolt of

Found in books: Pucci (2016) 133; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 298

498. ὃς προσβαλὼν πύλῃσιν ὤμοσεν πόλιν'499. πέρσειν θεοῦ θέλοντος ἤν τε μὴ θέλῃ; '. None

498. trying to rescue and bury those whom their own acts of insolence haye ruined. Verily then it would seem Capaneus was unjustly blasted by the thunderbolt and charred upon the ladder he had raised against our gates, swearing he would sack our town, whether the god would or no;'499. trying to rescue and bury those whom their own acts of insolence haye ruined. Verily then it would seem Capaneus was unjustly blasted by the thunderbolt and charred upon the ladder he had raised against our gates, swearing he would sack our town, whether the god would or no; '. None

3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.36.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Zeus, thunderbolts and • thunderbolt • thunderbolts of Zeus

Found in books: Lipka (2021) 167; Simon (2021) 27

9.36.3. τοὺς δὲ Φλεγύας πολέμῳ μάλιστα Ἑλλήνων χαίρειν μαρτυρεῖ μοι καὶ ἔπη τῶν ἐν Ἰλιάδι περὶ Ἄρεως καὶ Φόβου τοῦ Ἄρεως πεποιημένα, τὼ μὲν ἄρʼ εἰς Ἐφύρους πόλεμον μέτα θωρήσσεσθον ἠὲ μετὰ Φλεγύας μεγαλήτορας· Hom. Il. 13.301-2 Ἐφύρους δὲ ἐνταῦθα ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν τοὺς ἐν τῇ Θεσπρωτίδι ἠπείρῳ λέγει. τὸ μὲν δὴ Φλεγυῶν γένος ἀνέτρεψεν ἐκ βάθρων ὁ θεὸς κεραυνοῖς συνεχέσι καὶ ἰσχυροῖς σεισμοῖς· τοὺς δὲ ὑπολειπομένους νόσος ἐπιπεσοῦσα ἔφθειρε λοιμώδης, ὀλίγοι δὲ καὶ ἐς τὴν Φωκίδα διαφεύγουσιν ἐξ αὐτῶν.''. None

9.36.3. That the Phlegyans took more pleasure in war than any other Greeks is also shown by the lines of the Iliad dealing with Ares and his son Panic:— They twain were arming themselves for war to go to the Ephyrians, Or to the great-hearted Phlegyans. Hom. Il. 13.301-2 By Ephyrians in this passage Homer means, I think, those in Thesprotis. The Phlegyan race was completely overthrown by the god with continual thunderbolts and violent earthquakes. The remt were wasted by an epidemic of plague, but a few of them escaped to Phocis.''. None

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