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subject	book bibliographic info
contempt	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 43, 108, 109, 116, 117
contempt, catharsis, catharsis of	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 290, 291
contempt, emotions	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 354, 457, 458, 464, 465, 466, 474, 605
contempt, for asiatic greeks, dio chrysostom	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 394, 395
contempt, for death, noble death	Avemarie, van Henten, and Furstenberg (2023), Jewish Martyrdom in Antiquity, 123, 141, 142, 143, 148, 289, 292, 293, 294
contempt, for the world	Corrigan and Rasimus (2013), Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, 585, 586, 589, 590, 591
contempt, for, egyptians, josephus’	Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 500, 501
contempt, for, life	Corrigan and Rasimus (2013), Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, 44, 125, 513, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589
contempt, for, marriage, heretical	Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 173, 292, 302, 304, 305, 306, 335, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 356, 357, 358, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 493, 522, 541, 542, 543
contempt, for, masses, josephus’	Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452
contempt, for, revolutionaries, josephus’	Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473
contempt, for/neglect of flaminius, c., auspices	Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 175, 181, 212, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248
contempt, laughter	Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 42, 44, 46, 47, 52, 68, 78, 111, 139, 140, 145, 170, 183, 225, 237, 286, 306
contempt, of gods, asebia, impiety	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 174

List of validated texts:

6 validated results for "contempt"

1. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Scorn • laughter, contempt

Found in books: Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 42; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 57

2. Herodotus, Histories, 4.42 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Contempt • Emotions, Contempt

Found in books: Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 83; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 354

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4.42 θωμάζω ὦν τῶν διουρισάντων καὶ διελόντων Λιβύην τε καὶ Ἀσίην καὶ Εὐρώπην· οὐ γὰρ σμικρὰ τὰ διαφέροντα αὐτέων ἐστί· μήκεϊ μὲν γὰρ παρʼ ἀμφοτέρας παρήκει ἡ Εὐρώπη, εὔρεος δὲ πέρι οὐδὲ συμβάλλειν ἀξίη φαίνεταί μοι εἶναι. Λιβύη μὲν γὰρ δηλοῖ ἑωυτὴν 1 ἐοῦσα περίρρυτος, πλὴν ὅσον αὐτῆς πρὸς τὴν Ἀσίην οὐρίζει, Νεκῶ τοῦ Αἰγυπτίων βασιλέος πρώτου τῶν ἡμεῖς ἴδμεν καταδέξαντος· ὃς ἐπείτε τὴν διώρυχα ἐπαύσατο ὀρύσσων τὴν ἐκ τοῦ Νείλου διέχουσαν ἐς τὸν Ἀράβιον κόλπον, ἀπέπεμψε Φοίνικας ἄνδρας πλοίοισι, ἐντειλάμενος ἐς τὸ ὀπίσω διʼ Ἡρακλέων στηλέων ἐκπλέειν ἕως ἐς τὴν βορηίην θάλασσαν καὶ οὕτω ἐς Αἴγυπτον ἀπικνέεσθαι. ὁρμηθέντες ὦν οἱ Φοίνικες ἐκ τῆς Ἐρυθρῆς θαλάσσης ἔπλεον τὴν νοτίην θάλασσαν· ὅκως δὲ γίνοιτο φθινόπωρον προσσχόντες ἂν σπείρεσκον τὴν γῆν, ἵνα ἑκάστοτε τῆς Λιβύης πλέοντες γινοίατο, καὶ μένεσκον τὸν ἄμητον· θερίσαντες δʼ ἂν τὸν σῖτον ἔπλεον, ὥστε δύο ἐτέων διεξελθόντων τρίτῳ ἔτεϊ κάμψαντες Ἡρακλέας στήλας ἀπίκοντο ἐς Αἴγυπτον. καὶ ἔλεγον ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐ πιστά, ἄλλῳ δὲ δή τεῳ, ὡς περιπλώοντες τὴν Λιβύην τὸν ἥλιον ἔσχον ἐς τὰ δεξιά.'' None

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4.42 I wonder, then, at those who have mapped out and divided the world into Libya, Asia, and Europe; for the difference between them is great, seeing that in length Europe stretches along both the others together, and it appears to me to be wider beyond all comparison. ,For Libya shows clearly that it is bounded by the sea, except where it borders on Asia. Necos king of Egypt first discovered this and made it known. When he had finished digging the canal which leads from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf, he sent Phoenicians in ships, instructing them to sail on their return voyage past the Pillars of Heracles until they came into the northern sea and so to Egypt. ,So the Phoenicians set out from the Red Sea and sailed the southern sea; whenever autumn came they would put in and plant the land in whatever part of Libya they had reached, and there await the harvest; ,then, having gathered the crop, they sailed on, so that after two years had passed, it was in the third that they rounded the pillars of Heracles and came to Egypt. There they said (what some may believe, though I do not) that in sailing around Libya they had the sun on their right hand.'' None

3. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Life, contempt for • Marriage, heretical contempt for

Found in books: Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 304, 305; Corrigan and Rasimus (2013), Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, 584

4. Quintilian, Institutes of Oratory, 9.2.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Contempt • scorn, as lexical item, and fastidium, of invidia

Found in books: Kaster(2005), Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome, 96; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 106

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9.2.8 \xa0How much greater is the fire of his words as they stand than if he had said, "You have abused our patience a long time," and "Your plots are all laid bare." We may also ask what cannot be denied, as "Was Gaius Ficiulanius Falcula, I\xa0ask you, brought to justice?" Or we may put a question to which it is difficult to reply, as in the common forms, "How is it possible?" "How can that be?"'' None

5. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Life, contempt for • Marriage, heretical contempt for

Found in books: Boulluec (2022), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries, 304; Corrigan and Rasimus (2013), Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World, 584

6. Aeschines, Or., 1.114
Tagged with subjects: • asebia (impiety), contempt of gods • contempt

Found in books: Chaniotis (2012), Unveiling Emotions: Sources and Methods for the Study of Emotions in the Greek World vol, 368; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 174

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1.114 In consequence of this experience so great became his contempt for you that immediately, on the occasion of the revision of the citizen lists, he gathered in two thousand drachmas. For he asserted that Philotades of Cydathenaeon, a citizen, was a former slave of his own, and he persuaded the members of the deme to disfranchise him. He took charge of the prosecution in court,See on Aeschin. 1.77. and after he had taken the sacred offerings in his hand and sworn that he had not taken a bribe and would not, '' None

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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