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All subjects (including unvalidated):

subject	book bibliographic info
childbirth	Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 10, 54, 139, 157 Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 53, 54, 60, 66, 67 Hachlili (2005), Practices And Rites In The Second Temple Period, 321 Hubbard (2014), A Companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities, 70, 73, 169, 170, 284, 538, 558, 559 Huebner (2013), The Family in Roman Egypt: A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity , 1, 79, 80, 100, 118, 121, 148, 149, 163, 175 Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 366, 681 Libson (2018), Law and self-knowledge in the Talmud, 99, 106, 107, 108, 110 Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 306, 307 Maier and Waldner (2022), Desiring Martyrs: Locating Martyrs in Space and Time, 204 Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 214, 222, 223, 224, 225, 241
childbirth, age at	Huebner (2013), The Family in Roman Egypt: A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity , 176
childbirth, and adored in ephesus, phoebus, sister of helper in	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 2, 117
childbirth, and nursing, aphrodite relation to conception	Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 432, 433
childbirth, artemis helps in	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 2, 117
childbirth, artemis, and	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 106, 107, 154
childbirth, as a source of pollution	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 17, 20, 28, 59, 213, 239, 242
childbirth, asclepius, and	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 10
childbirth, dangers of	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 17, 35, 60, 76
childbirth, death in	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 574 Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 371, 1044
childbirth, death, in	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 35, 74, 76, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 148, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254
childbirth, disoterion, and	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7, 107
childbirth, impurity	Neis (2012), When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species. 33, 186, 207
childbirth, impurity following	Neis (2012), When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species. 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 186, 207
childbirth, lochia, goddess of	Brule (2003), Women of Ancient Greece, 139
childbirth, maternal death	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 35, 74, 76, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 148, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254
childbirth, multiple births	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 78
childbirth, physical changes from	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 43
childbirth, polluting	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 78, 209, 216
childbirth, rituals, women	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 524
childbirth, women	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 574
childbirth, women, death in	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 35, 76, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107, 148, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254
childbirth, women, divine protection in	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 188, 251, 524, 525
childbirth, ‘unnatural’ births	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 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 (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 107, 154; Lyons (1997), Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, 20; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 51, 54, 55

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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'' None

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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. ^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. '' None

2. None, None, nan (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 (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 524; Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 53, 54; Lyons (1997), Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult, 19, 158; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 51

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

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208

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

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

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250 κακῶς φρονοῦντες: ὡς τρὶς ἂν παρ' ἀσπίδα"²⁵¹ στῆναι θέλοιμ' ἂν μᾶλλον ἢ τεκεῖν ἅπαξ." "" None

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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. ' None

5. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • childbearing • childbearing, andIphigeneia • women, divine protection in childbirth

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

6. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • childbirth as a source of pollution • childbirth, polluting

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

7. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • childbirth, maternal death • death in childbirth • death, in childbirth • women, childbirth • women, death in childbirth

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

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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