The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Index Database

Results for
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.

5 results for "commotion"

1. Plutarch, Alexander The Great, 1.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •commotion decrees Found in books: Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 247

1.2. οὔτε γὰρ ἱστορίας γράφομεν, ἀλλὰ βίους, οὔτε ταῖς ἐπιφανεστάταις πράξεσι πάντως ἔνεστι δήλωσις ἀρετῆς ἢ κακίας, ἀλλὰ πρᾶγμα βραχὺ πολλάκις καὶ ῥῆμα καὶ παιδιά τις ἔμφασιν ἤθους ἐποίησε μᾶλλον ἢ μάχαι μυριόνεκροι καὶ παρατάξεις αἱ μέγισται καὶ πολιορκίαι πόλεων.

1.2. For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice, nay, a slight thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of character than battles where thousands fall, or the greatest armaments, or sieges of cities.

2. Epigraphy, Lscg, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 247

3. Epigraphy, Knidos, 71 Tagged with subjects: •commotion decrees Found in books: Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 247

4. Epigraphy, Seg, 42.785 Tagged with subjects: •commotion decrees Found in books: Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 247

Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database