1. Xenophon, Constitution of The Spartans, 1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •boukoloi Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 72 | 1. It occurred to me one day that Sparta , though among the most thinly populated of states, was evidently the most powerful and most celebrated city in Greece ; and I fell to wondering how this could have happened. But when I considered the institutions of the Spartans, I wondered no longer.,Lycurgus, who gave them the laws that they obey, and to which they owe their prosperity, I do regard with wonder; and I think that he reached the utmost limit of wisdom. For it was not by imitating other states, but by devising a system utterly different from that of most others, that he made his country pre-eminently prosperous.,First, to begin at the beginning, I will take the begetting of children. The prose Constitution of the Lacedaemonians by Critias began with the same point. See Introduction 3. In other states the girls who are destined to become mothers and are brought up in the approved fashion, live on the very plainest fare, with a most meagre allowance of delicacies. Wine is either witheld altogether, or, if allowed them, is diluted with water. The rest of the Greeks expect their girls to imitate the sedentary life that is typical of handicraftsmen — to keep quiet and do wool-work. How, then, is it to be expected that women so brought up will bear fine children?,But Lycurgus thought the labour of slave women sufficient to supply clothing. He believed motherhood to be the most important function of freeborn woman. Therefore, in the first place, he insisted on physical training for the female no less than for the male sex: moreover, he instituted races and trials of strength for women competitors as for men, believing that if both parents are strong they produce more vigorous offspring.,He noticed, too, that, during the time immediately succeeding marriage, it was usual elsewhere for the husband to have unlimited intercourse with his wife. The rule that he adopted was the opposite of this: for he laid it down that the husband should be ashamed to be seen entering his wife’s room or leaving it. With this restriction on intercourse the desire of the one for the other must necessarily be increased, and their offspring was bound to be more vigorous than if they were surfeited with one another.,In addition to this, he withdrew from men the right to take a wife whenever they chose, and insisted on their marrying in the prime of their manhood, believing that this too promoted the production of fine children.,It might happen, however, that an old man had a young wife; and he observed that old men keep a very jealous watch over their young wives. To meet these cases he instituted an entirely different system by requiring the elderly husband to introduce into his house some man whose physical and moral qualities he admired, in order to beget children.,On the other hand, in case a man did not want to cohabit with his wife and nevertheless desired children of whom he could be proud, he made it lawful for him to choose a woman who was the mother of a fine family and of high birth, and if he obtained her husband’s consent, to make her the mother of his children.,He gave his sanction to many similar arrangements. For the wives i.e., at Sparta . want to take charge of two households, and the husbands want to get brothers for their sons, brothers who are members of the family and share in its influence, but claim no part of the money.,Thus his regulations with regard to the begetting of children were in sharp contrast with those of other states. Whether he succeeded in populating Sparta with a race of men remarkable for their size and strength anyone who chooses may judge for himself. |
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| 2. Lysias, Orations, 1.20 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •boukoloi Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 170 |
| 3. Plato, Laws, 781b, 781c, 781a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 60 |
| 4. Xenophon of Ephesus, The Ephesian Story of Anthica And Habrocomes, 5.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •boukoloi Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 72 |
5. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 9.29-9.30 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •boukoloi Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 60 | 9.29. Revenge Now the wife's inborn malice was stimulated and exacerbated by this affront, well-deserved though it was. Resorting to her old ways, she turned to those magic arts women employ. After careful inquiry, she found an old witch, who they said could work anything with spells and like mischief, and begged her with many gifts and much exhortation to either mollify her husband's wrath and bring about a reconciliation, or if that were impossible send some spectre or dreadful demon to do him violence and expel his spirit. Then the witch, with her supernatural powers, used the primal weapons of her wicked arts against him, trying to turn the greatly aggrieved husband's thoughts towards renewed affection. When this effort was disappointed, unhappy with those otherworldly agents, spurred on by their disdain of her as much as by the promise of reward, she threatened the life of the wretched miller by raising the ghost of a murdered woman to destroy him. Now perhaps, scrupulous reader, you may find fault with my tale, asking: 'Clever little ass, how come, if you were imprisoned in the confines of that mill-house, you could discover what those women were secretly up to, as you claim?' Well, let me tell you how an inquisitive man disguised as a beast of burden could find out everything they did to encompass my master's ruin. About noon the dead woman's spirit appeared inside the mill-house, possessed by terrible grief, half-clothed in tear-stained rags, her feet bare and unprotected, and she greatly emaciated, pale as boxwood. Her grey dishevelled hair, sprinkled with ashes, hung over her forehead hiding most of her face. She gently laid her hand on the miller's arm, as if she wished to speak to him privately, led him away to his room and remained there behind closed doors with him for a length of time. As all the grain at hand had been milled, and more was needed, the workers stood outside the door and called to their master for new supplies. When they'd shouted several times loudly without reply, and pounded on the door, finding it securely fastened and suspecting something gravely wrong, they broke the lock with a powerful heave, and forced their way in. The strange woman was nowhere to be seen, but their master was hanging from a beam, already dead. They freed his body from the noose, lowered it, and began to mourn, wailing loudly and beating their breasts. When the corpse was washed and the laying-out complete, they carried it off for burial, followed by a large procession. Next day his daughter arrived in haste from the next town, where she had lived since her marriage. She was already in mourning, shaking her dishevelled hair, and beating her breasts with her hands, for though the news of the family's misfortunes was not yet abroad, her father's weeping ghost had appeared to her in a dream, the noose around his neck, and told her all; her stepmother's crimes of sorcery and adultery, and how the ghost had dispatched him to the shades. Once her long lamentations had ceased, her self-torment restrained by her friends who had gathered round, she left off mourning, and when the rites at the tomb had been duly completed, eight days later, she auctioned the mill and contents, the slaves and all the animals. So fickle Fortune scattered the various elements of that house and, as for me, a poor market-gardener bought me for fifty sestertii, a high price for him to pay, as he said, but he hoped to earn a living from our joint efforts. |
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6. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 69.22.1, 71.8-71.10, 71.28, 73.15.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Boukoloi, rebels in Egypt Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 228, 230 | 73.15.3. In his honour a gold statue was erected of a thousand pounds weight, representing him together with a bull and a cow. Finally, all the months were named after him, so that they were enumerated as follows: Amazonius, Invictus, Felix, Pius, Lucius, Aelius, Aurelius, Commodus, Augustus, Herculeus, Romanus, Exsuperatorius. 4 For he himself assumed these several titles at different times, but "Amazonius" and "Exsuperatorius" he applied constantly to himself, to indicate that in every respect he surpassed absolutely all mankind superlatively; so superlatively mad had the abandoned wretch become. |
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| 7. Chariton, Chaereas And Callirhoe, 1.4.8 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •boukoloi Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 170 |
| 8. Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, 1, 1.2, 1.3.2, 1.4.1, 1.9.1-1.14.2, 1.10.2, 1.10.1, 1.12.1, 1.14.3-1.18.1, 1.16.2, 1.17.4, 1.19, 1.20, 1.22.7, 1.22.6, 1.23, 1.26.5, 1.28.1-1.31.1, 1.29.1, 1.30, 1.31.1, 2.2.3-2.3.1, 2.2.1-2.9.5, 2.3.3, 2.3.1, 2.8.1, 2.10.4, 2.10.1-2.14, 2.12.4, 2.13, 2.18, 2.33.4, 2.33, 3.19, 4.3.4, 4.7, 4.18, 5.6, 5.6-10.38, 5.23, 5.28, 6.11.3, 7.7.6, 7.19, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12, 10.13, 10.14, 10.15, 10.16, 10.17, 10.35 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 170 |
| 9. Lucian, The Lover of Lies, 34-35, 37, 36 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 230 |
| 10. Pliny The Younger, Panegyric, 30, 32, 31 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 244 |
| 11. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.2449-4.2455 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Boukoloi, rebels in Egypt Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 230 |
| 12. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Commodus, 9.4 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Boukoloi, rebels in Egypt Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 230 |
| 13. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Commodus, 9.4 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Boukoloi, rebels in Egypt Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 230 |
| 14. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Hadrian, 16.7, 25.1-25.4 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Boukoloi, rebels in Egypt Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 230 |
| 15. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Marcus Antoninus, 26.1 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Boukoloi, rebels in Egypt Found in books: Manolaraki, Noscendi Nilum Cupido: Imagining Egypt from Lucan to Philostratus (2012) 228 |
| 16. Anon., Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri, 33, 4, 27 (4th cent. CE - 10th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pinheiro et al., Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel (2012a) 60 |
