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subject	book bibliographic info
cos	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 21, 22, 23, 30, 31, 39, 239, 241, 251, 252, 261 Edmondson (2008), Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture, 194 Ferrándiz (2022), Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea, 19 Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 19, 21, 23 Keddie (2019), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins, 189 Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 180, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220 Mackil and Papazarkadas (2020), Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 290, 291 Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 48, 57, 64, 68, 85, 92, 135, 192, 207, 208, 213, 216, 267, 269 Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 50, 70 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 5, 158, 174, 185, 272, 273, 274 Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 115, 207 Trapp et al. (2016), In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns, 4, 55, 56, 115
cos, aegean island	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 542
cos, aegean, islands	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 159, 168
cos, aesculapius, temple on	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 50
cos, and asclepius	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 73
cos, antimacheia	Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 229
cos, aphrodite pandamos on	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 22, 137
cos, apollo, dalios, priesthood at	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 42
cos, asclepieum	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 29, 38
cos, asclepieum, on	Bowie (2023), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Volume 2: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels. 143
cos, asclepios	Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 227
cos, asclepius soter, on	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7
cos, asclepius, festival at	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 86
cos, asklepieion	Mackil and Papazarkadas (2020), Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B, 252, 256
cos, athena soteira nike, on	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7
cos, calendar of	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 66, 67
cos, cult foundations, of diomedon	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 45, 86, 87, 111, 376
cos, cult foundations, of phanomachos	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 86
cos, cult foundations, of pythokles	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 45, 84
cos, cult foundations, of teleutias	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 86
cos, demeter soteira, on	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 110, 111, 150
cos, demos, in	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 21, 23
cos, eviction of gauls from delphi and	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 7
cos, familial association pythion of of	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 104, 105, 106, 114
cos, foundation diomedon of of	Gabrielsen and Paganini (2021), Private Associations in the Ancient Greek World: Regulations and the Creation of Group Identity, 22, 105, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 251
cos, hecate soteira, on	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7
cos, hippocrates of	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 186
cos, informative documents from	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 52
cos, isis soteira, on	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7
cos, nicias of	Culík-Baird (2022), Cicero and the Early Latin Poets, 164
cos, philitas of	Lightfoot (2021), Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World, 85, 86, 87, 88 Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 243, 244
cos, praxagoras of	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 226 Inwood and Warren (2020), Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57
cos, praxiteles, and the venus of	Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 299
cos, priesthoods	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 42
cos, priests, purity and	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 42, 78
cos, sales of priesthoods	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 49, 51, 52
cos, sanctuary of asclepius	Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 279, 289
cos, synoecism, of	Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 67
cos, theoi soteres, in	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7
cos, topography	Bowie (2023), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Volume 2: Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels. 142
cos, zeus soter, on	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7

List of validated texts:

10 validated results for "cos"

1. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cos • Cos, Asclepieum

Found in books: Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 29; Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 92

2. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cos

Found in books: Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 220; Trapp et al. (2016), In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns, 55

3. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 16.45 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cos

Found in books: Eckhardt (2019), Benedict, Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities, 127; Keddie (2019), Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins, 189

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16.45 τούτων ἡμᾶς ἀφαιροῦνται κατ' ἐπήρειαν, χρήματα μὲν ἃ τῷ θεῷ συμφέρομεν ἐπώνυμα διαφθείροντες καὶ φανερῶς ἱεροσυλοῦντες, τέλη δ' ἐπιτιθέντες κἀν ταῖς ἑορταῖς ἄγοντες ἐπὶ δικαστήρια καὶ πραγματείας ἄλλας, οὐ κατὰ χρείαν τῶν συναλλαγμάτων, ἀλλὰ κατ' ἐπήρειαν τῆς θρησκείας, ἣν συνίσασιν ἡμῖν, μῖσος οὐ δίκαιον οὐδ' αὐτεξούσιον αὐτοῖς πεπονθότες."" None

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16.45 Now our adversaries take these our privileges away in the way of injustice; they violently seize upon that money of ours which is owed to God, and called sacred money, and this openly, after a sacrilegious manner; and they impose tributes upon us, and bring us before tribunals on holy days, and then require other like debts of us, not because the contracts require it, and for their own advantage, but because they would put an affront on our religion, of which they are conscious as well as we, and have indulged themselves in an unjust, and to them involuntary, hatred;'' None

4. Tacitus, Annals, 4.14, 12.61 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cos • lunius Silanus, C. (cos.

Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 185, 272, 273, 274; Talbert (1984), The Senate of Imperial Rome, 237, 413, 421

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4.14 Is quoque annus legationes Graecarum civitatium habuit, Samiis Iunonis, Cois Aesculapii delubro vetustum asyli ius ut firmaretur petentibus. Samii decreto Amphictyonum nitebantur, quis praecipuum fuit rerum omnium iudicium, qua tempestate Graeci conditis per Asiam urbibus ora maris potiebantur. neque dispar apud Coos antiquitas, et accedebat meritum ex loco: nam civis Romanos templo Aesculapii induxerant, cum iussu regis Mithridatis apud cunctas Asiae insulas et urbes trucidarentur. variis dehinc et saepius inritis praetorum questibus, postremo Caesar de immodestia histrionum rettulit: multa ab iis in publicum seditiose, foeda per domos temptari; Oscum quondam ludicrum, levissimae apud vulgum oblectationis, eo flagitiorum et virium venisse ut auctoritate patrum coercendum sit. pulsi tum histriones Italia. ^12.61 Rettulit dein de immunitate Cois tribuenda multaque super antiquitate eorum memoravit: Argivos vel Coeum Latonae parentem vetustissimos insulae cultores; mox adventu Aesculapii artem medendi inlatam maximeque inter posteros eius celebrem fuisse, nomina singulorum referens et quibus quisque aetatibus viguissent. quin etiam dixit Xenophontem, cuius scientia ipse uteretur, eadem familia ortum, precibusque eius dandum ut omni tributo vacui in posterum Coi sacram et tantum dei ministram insulam colerent. neque dubium habetur multa eorundem in populum Romanum merita sociasque victorias potuisse tradi: set Claudius facilitate solita quod uni concesserat nullis extrinsecus adiumentis velavit.'' None

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4.14 \xa0This year also brought delegations from two Greek communities, the Samians and Coans desiring the confirmation of an old right of asylum to the temples of Juno and Aesculapius respectively. The Samians appealed to a decree of the Amphictyonic Council, the principal tribunal for all questions in the period when the Greeks had already founded their city-states in Asia and were domit upon the sea-coast. The Coans had equal antiquity on their side, and, in addition, a claim associated with the place itself: for they had sheltered Roman citizens in the temple of Aesculapius at a time when, by order of King Mithridates, they were being butchered in every island and town of Asia. Next, after various and generally ineffective complaints from the praetors, the Caesar at last brought up the question of the effrontery of the players:â\x80\x94 "They were frequently the fomenters of sedition against the state and of debauchery in private houses; the old Oscan farce, the trivial delight of the crowd, had come to such a pitch of indecency and power that it needed the authority of the senate to check it." The players were then expelled from Italy. < ^12.61 \xa0He next proposed to grant immunity to the inhabitants of Cos. of their ancient history he had much to tell:â\x80\x94 "The earliest occupants of the island had," he said, "been Argives â\x80\x94 or, possibly, Coeus, the father of Latona. Then the arrival of Aesculapius had introduced the art of healing, which attained the highest celebrity among his descendants" â\x80\x94 here he gave the names of the descendants and the epochs at which they had all flourished. "Xenophon," he observed again, "to whose knowledge he himself had recourse, derived his origin from the same family; and, as a concession to his prayers, the Coans ought to have been exempted from all forms of tribute for the future and allowed to tet their island as a sanctified place subservient only to its god." There can be no doubt that a large number of services rendered by the islanders to Rome, and of victories in which they had borne their part, could have been cited; but Claudius declined to disguise by external aids a favour which, with his wonted complaisance, he had accorded to an individual. <'' None

5. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Praxagoras of Cos

Found in books: Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 226; Inwood and Warren (2020), Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy, 50

6. Strabo, Geography, 14.2.19
Tagged with subjects: • Aesculapius, temple on Cos • Cos • Philitas of Cos

Found in books: Lightfoot (2021), Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World, 86; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 50

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14.2.19 The city of the Coans was in ancient times called Astypalaea; and its people lived on another site, which was likewise on the sea. And then, on account of a sedition, they changed their abode to the present city, near Scandarium, and changed the name to Cos, the same as that of the island. Now the city is not large, but it is the most beautifully settled of all, and is most pleasing to behold as one sails from the high sea to its shore. The size of the island is about five hundred and fifty stadia. It is everywhere well supplied with fruits, but like Chios and Lesbos it is best in respect to its wine. Towards the south it has a promontory, Laceter, whence the distance to Nisyros is sixty stadia (but near Laceter there is a place called Halisarna), and on the west it has Drecanum and a village called Stomalimne. Now Drecanum is about two hundred stadia distant from the city, but Laceter adds thirty-five stadia to the length of the voyage. In the suburb is the Asclepieium, a sanctuary exceedingly famous and full of numerous votive offerings, among which is the Antigonus of Apelles. And Aphrodite Anadyomene used to be there, but it is now dedicated to the deified Caesar in Rome, Augustus thus having dedicated to his father the female founder of his family. It is said that the Coans got a remission of one hundred talents of the appointed tribute in return for the painting. And it is said that the dietetics practised by Hippocrates were derived mostly from the cures recorded on the votive tablets there. He, then, is one of the famous men from Cos; and so is Simus the physician; as also Philetas, at the same time poet and critic; and, in my time, Nicias, who also reigned as tyrant over the Coans; and Ariston, the pupil and heir of the Peripatetic; and Theomnestus, a renowned harper, who was a political opponent of Nicias, was a native of the island.'' None

7. Valerius Maximus, Memorable Deeds And Sayings, 2.7.6
Tagged with subjects: • Manlius Torquatus, T. (III cos. • Torquatus, T. Manlius (cos. • Torquatus, T. Manlius (cos., as controversial exemplum • Torquatus, T. Manlius (cos., execution of son

Found in books: Langlands (2018), Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome, 296; Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 144

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2.7.6 If any one of these were given to a state, however famous, it would then seem to be abundantly furnished with military discipline. But our city, which has filled the world with wonderful examples of all sorts, with a dubious face beholds her axes reeking with the blood of her own commanders - which, lest the disturbance of military discipline should go unpunished, is splendid abroad, but it is the cause of private grief enough, to those who are uncertain whether to perform the office of congratulating or comforting. And therefore with doubtful thoughts have I coupled you two together, most severe observers of warlike discipline, Postumius Tubertus and Manlius Torquatus. For I am fearful of sinking under that weight of praise which you have merited, and revealing the weakness of my wit, while I presume to represent your virtue as it should be. For you, Postumius, as dictator, caused your victorious son A. Postumius to be beheaded - your son whom you begot to propagate the succession of your renowned family and your household rites; the charm of whose infancy you had cherished in your bosom and with your kisses; whom as a child you had instructed in learning, as a man in weapons - to be good, courageous, and obedient both to you and to his country; and only because without your command, without your leave, he had defeated his enemies, your fatherly command was to send him to the executioner. For I am certain that your eyes, overwhelmed with darkness in the brightest light, could not look upon the great work of your mind. But you, Manlius Torquatus, consul in the Latin War, commanded your son to be carried away by the lictor, and to be slain like a sacrifice, though he obtained a noble victory, because he had presumed to fight with Geminus Maecius, general of the Tusculans, when provoked to combat by him. You thought it better that a father should lack a courageous son, than that your country should lack military discipline.'' None

8. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Cos • Cos, informative documents from • Cos, sales of priesthoods • cos, Antigoneion

Found in books: Horster and Klöckner (2014), Cult Personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial Period, 45; Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 51, 52; Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 213

9. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Antimacheia, Cos • Cos • Cos, Asclepieum • cos, Karneiasion • cult foundations, of Diomedon (Cos)

Found in books: Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 30, 241; Horster and Klöckner (2014), Cult Personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial Period, 264; Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 38, 111; Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 229

10. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Asclepius Soter, on Cos • Athena Soteira Nike, on Cos • Cos • Hecate Soteira, on Cos • Isis Soteira, on Cos • Theoi Soteres, in Cos • Zeus Soter, on Cos

Found in books: Horster and Klöckner (2014), Cult Personnel in Asia Minor and the Aegean Islands from the Hellenistic to the Imperial Period, 180; Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7; Mackil and Papazarkadas (2020), Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B, 249, 250

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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