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subject book bibliographic info
childbirth Brule, Women of Ancient Greece (2003) 10, 54, 139, 157
Cairns et al, Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium 409, 410, 412
Gazis and Hooper, Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature (2021) 53, 54, 60, 66, 67
Hachlili, Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices And Rites In The Second Temple Period (2005) 321
Hubbard, A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (2014) 70, 73, 169, 170, 284, 538, 558, 559
Huebner, The Family in Roman Egypt: A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity (2013) 1, 79, 80, 100, 118, 121, 148, 149, 163, 175
Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 366, 681
Libson, Law and self-knowledge in the Talmud (2018) 99, 106, 107, 108, 110
Lupu, Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) (2005) 306, 307
Maier and Waldner, Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time (2022) 204
Peels, Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety (2016) 214, 222, 223, 224, 225, 241
childbirth, age at Huebner, The Family in Roman Egypt: A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity (2013) 176
childbirth, and adored in ephesus, phoebus, sister of helper in Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 2, 117
childbirth, and nursing, aphrodite relation to conception Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (2005) 432, 433
childbirth, and, places, astrological Gieseler Greenbaum, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2015) 142, 145, 150, 151, 155
childbirth, artemis helps in Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 2, 117
childbirth, artemis, and Jim, Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (2022) 106, 107, 154
childbirth, as a source of pollution Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 17, 20, 28, 59, 213, 239, 242
childbirth, asclepius, and Jim, Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (2022) 10
childbirth, dangers of Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 17, 35, 60, 76
childbirth, death in Bruun and Edmondson, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (2015) 574
Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 371, 1044
childbirth, death, in Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 35, 74, 76, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 148, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254
childbirth, disoterion, and Jim, Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (2022) 7, 107
childbirth, impurity Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 33, 186, 207
childbirth, impurity following Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 186, 207
childbirth, lochia, goddess of Brule, Women of Ancient Greece (2003) 139
childbirth, maternal death Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 35, 74, 76, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 148, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254
childbirth, multiple births Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78
childbirth, pain agony, of Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 61, 271, 299, 329, 330, 404, 490, 553, 662, 672, 675, 676, 677, 679, 681, 720, 842
childbirth, physical changes from Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 43
childbirth, polluting Lupu, Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) (2005) 78, 209, 216
childbirth, purification after Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (2023) 624, 750
childbirth, rituals, women Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524
childbirth, women Bruun and Edmondson, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (2015) 574
childbirth, women, death in Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 35, 76, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 148, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254
childbirth, women, divine protection in Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 188, 251, 524, 525
childbirth, women, impurity of Neis, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species (2012) 33, 186, 207
childbirth, ‘unnatural’ births Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 148, 152, 153, 162, 173

List of validated texts:
7 validated results for "childbirth"
1. Homer, Iliad, 11.269-11.272, 21.483 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Artemis, and childbirth • Disoterion, and childbirth • childbearing, and heroines • childbirth, divine • childbirth, human

 Found in books: Jim, Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (2022) 107, 154; Lyons, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (1997) 20; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti, The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (2022) 51, 54, 55

11.269 ὡς δʼ ὅτʼ ἂν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα, 11.270 δριμύ, τό τε προϊεῖσι μογοστόκοι Εἰλείθυιαι, 11.271 Ἥρης θυγατέρες πικρὰς ὠδῖνας ἔχουσαι, 11.272 ὣς ὀξεῖʼ ὀδύναι δῦνον μένος Ἀτρεΐδαο. 21.483 τοξοφόρῳ περ ἐούσῃ, ἐπεὶ σὲ λέοντα γυναιξὶ
11.269 with spear and sword and great stones, so long as the blood welled yet warm from his wound. But when the wound waxed dry, and the blood ceased to flow, then sharp pains came upon the mighty son of Atreus. And even as when the sharp dart striketh a woman in travail, 11.270 the piercing dart that the Eilithyiae, the goddesses of childbirth, send—even the daughters of Hera that have in their keeping bitter pangs; even so sharp pains came upon the mighty son of Atreus. Then he leapt upon his chariot and bade his charioteer drive to the hollow ships, for he was sore pained at heart. 11.272 the piercing dart that the Eilithyiae, the goddesses of childbirth, send—even the daughters of Hera that have in their keeping bitter pangs; even so sharp pains came upon the mighty son of Atreus. Then he leapt upon his chariot and bade his charioteer drive to the hollow ships, for he was sore pained at heart.
21.483
How now art thou fain, thou bold and shameless thing, to stand forth against me? No easy foe I tell thee, am I, that thou shouldst vie with me in might, albeit thou bearest the bow, since it was against women that Zeus made thee a lion, and granted thee to slay whomsoever of them thou wilt.
2. Homer, Odyssey, 11.227, 11.234-11.237, 11.245, 11.601-11.604 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • childbearing • childbearing, and heroines • childbirth • childbirth, human • women, childbirth rituals • women, divine protection in childbirth

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 524; Gazis and Hooper, Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature (2021) 53, 54; Lyons, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (1997) 19, 158; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti, The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (2022) 51

11.235 ἔνθʼ ἦ τοι πρώτην Τυρὼ ἴδον εὐπατέρειαν, 11.245 λῦσε δὲ παρθενίην ζώνην, κατὰ δʼ ὕπνον ἔχευεν. ὅσσαι ἀριστήων ἄλοχοι ἔσαν ἠδὲ θύγατρες. ὃν γόνον ἐξαγόρευεν· ἐγὼ δʼ ἐρέεινον ἁπάσας. ἣ φάτο Σαλμωνῆος ἀμύμονος ἔκγονος εἶναι, φῆ δὲ Κρηθῆος γυνὴ ἔμμεναι Αἰολίδαο·, τὸν δὲ μετʼ εἰσενόησα βίην Ἡρακληείην, εἴδωλον· αὐτὸς δὲ μετʼ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι, τέρπεται ἐν θαλίῃς καὶ ἔχει καλλίσφυρον Ἥβην, παῖδα Διὸς μεγάλοιο καὶ Ἥρης χρυσοπεδίλου.
" 11.235 “I then saw Tyro first, daughter of a noble father, who claimed she was the offspring of noble Salmoneus, and claimed to be the wife of Cretheus Aeolides. Shed fallen in love with a river, divine Enipeus, who is by far the handsomest of rivers on the earth,", "
11.245
He loosed her maiden girdle, then poured sleep down upon her. Then after hed completed his acts of love, he put his hand in hers, called out her name, and said: Woman, rejoice in our love. When the year goes round, youll give birth to splendid children, since immortals bedding",
3. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 208 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • childbearing • women, divine protection in childbirth

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 525; Lyons, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (1997) 162

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4. Euripides, Iphigenia Among The Taurians, 1461, 1464-1467 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • childbearing • childbearing, andIphigeneia • women, divine protection in childbirth

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 188; Lyons, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (1997) 45, 145

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5. Euripides, Medea, 250-251 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • childbearing, and heroines • childbirth

 Found in books: Gazis and Hooper, Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature (2021) 66, 67; Lyons, Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (1997) 20

" 250 κακῶς φρονοῦντες: ὡς τρὶς ἂν παρ ἀσπίδα" 251 στῆναι θέλοιμ ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ τεκεῖν ἅπαξ.", "
250 with their sorry reasoning, for I would gladly take my stand in battle array three times o’er, than once give birth. 251 with their sorry reasoning, for I would gladly take my stand in battle array three times o’er, than once give birth.
6. Epigraphy, Lss, 115
 Tagged with subjects: • childbirth as a source of pollution • childbirth, polluting

 Found in books: Lupu, Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) (2005) 78; Petrovic and Petrovic, Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion (2016) 20

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7. Epigraphy, Cil, 8.20288
 Tagged with subjects: • childbirth, maternal death • death in childbirth • death, in childbirth • women, childbirth • women, death in childbirth

 Found in books: Bruun and Edmondson, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy (2015) 574; Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 103, 104, 254

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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.