The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Index Database

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All subjects (including unvalidated):

subject	book bibliographic info
accused/defendant	Riess (2012) 25, 26, 27, 31, 40, 45, 46, 50, 56, 65, 67, 68, 71, 84, 90, 91, 104, 106, 108, 111, 126, 129, 135, 158, 172, 216, 219, 286, 287, 307, 324, 336, 389
defend, egyptian theriomorphism, gymnoi, ethiopian philosophers	Manolaraki (2012) 261, 301, 302, 303
defendant, cf. accused delphinion	Riess (2012) 27, 35, 143
defendants	Rosen-Zvi (2012) 85
defendants, holding public offices, oaths	Martin (2009) 86, 129, 138, 146, 147
defended, by alexander, aristotle	Marmodoro and Prince (2015) 40
defended, by cicero, marcellus, julius caesar’s enemy	Xinyue (2022) 13, 14, 15
defended, by electra, sophia, wisdom of apollo	Pucci (2016) 195
defended, by josephus, pharaoh, in abraham narrative	Feldman (2006) 495, 496, 579, 580
defended, by philo, simeon and levi	Feldman (2006) 285, 286, 287, 288
defended, by proclus against aristotle, plato	Sorabji (2000) 295, 296
defended, resurrection	Williams (2009) 34, 41, 75, 120, 290, 298
defended, sabbath, observance	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021) 49
defended, sacrifice	Williams (2009) 146
defender, of hierocles paganism	Luck (2006) 67
defender, of rights of antony, mark antony, and jewish state, a. as	Udoh (2006) 110
defending, greeks and democracies	Kowalzig (2007) 218, 385
defending, greeks and democracies, and economy	Kowalzig (2007) 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219
defending, greeks and democracies, and panhellenism	Kowalzig (2007) 214, 217
defending, greeks and democracies, and ritual	Kowalzig (2007) 39, 248
defending, greeks and democracies, and synoikism	Kowalzig (2007) 161, 163, 173, 179, 256, 260
defending, greeks and democracies, and thalassocracy	Kowalzig (2007) 109, 115, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219
defending, greeks and democracies, democracy, in 5th cent. greece, and the chorus	Kowalzig (2007) 8, 101, 102, 169, 170, 260
defending, greeks and democracies, gods and	Kowalzig (2007) 215, 218, 284, 385
defending, greeks and democracies, outside athens	Kowalzig (2007) 94, 96, 101, 102, 130, 131, 151, 161, 162, 163, 173, 179, 218, 256, 257, 315, 322, 383, 384, 387, 391
defending, greeks and democracies, vs. regionalism	Kowalzig (2007) 355, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389
defending, greeks and democracies, vs. syngeneia	Kowalzig (2007) 105
defending, interpetation of john, literal	Azar (2016) 93
defending, nicene theology, chrysostom	Azar (2016) 102, 103
defending, nicene theology, cyril	Azar (2016) 155, 157, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186
defending, temple, origen	Azar (2016) 93
defends, ?????? against negative connotations, calcidius	Hoenig (2018) 278
defends, and shields, god	Gera (2014) 216, 221, 279, 292, 298, 313, 321, 322, 415, 458
defends, as superior to greek, latin cicero	Hoenig (2018) 43, 44
defends, christian writers, arnobius	Simmons(1995) 245, 246
defends, christs deity, eusebius	Simmons(1995) 224
defends, christ’s divinity, augustine	Hoenig (2018) 252, 258
defends, emphasis on water in de bapt., tertullian	Hillier (1993) 157
defends, gentile baptism, peter	Hillier (1993) 22, 23, 33, 34, 35
defends, himself against his rival historian justus of tiberias, josephus	Feldman (2006) 209, 210
defends, sanctity of song of songs, akiva, r.	Lieber (2014) 27, 28, 31
defends, the apostles, eusebius	Simmons(1995) 29
defends, verres, his villa at tusculum	Rutledge (2012) 46

List of validated texts:

2 validated results for "defending"

1. Xenophon, Hellenica, 4.4.2-4.4.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • defending Greeks and democracies, and ritual • oaths, defendants holding public offices

Found in books: Kowalzig (2007) 39; Martin (2009) 146

4.4.2. But the Argives, Athenians, Boeotians, and 392 B.C. those among the Corinthians who had received a share of the money from the King, as well as those who had made themselves chiefly responsible for the war, realizing that if they did not put out of the way the people who had turned toward peace, the state would be in danger of going over to the Lacedaemonians again, undertook, under these circumstances, to bring about a general massacre. And in the first place, they devised the most sacrilegious of all schemes; for other people, even if a man is condemned by process of law, do not put him to death during a religious festival; but these men chose the last day of the Euclea, The festival of Artemis Euclea. because they thought they would catch more people in the market-place, so as to kill them. 4.4.3. Then again, when the signal was given to those who had been told whom they were to 392 B.C. kill, they drew their swords and struck men down,—one while standing in a social group, another while sitting in his seat, still another in the theatre, and another even while he was sitting as judge in a dramatic contest. Now when the situation became known, the better classes immediately fled, in part to the statues of the gods in the market-place, in part to the altars; then the conspirators, utterly sacrilegious and without so much as a single thought for civilized usage, both those who gave the orders and those who obeyed, kept up the slaughter even at the holy places, so that some even among those who were not victims of the attack, being right-minded men, were dismayed in their hearts at beholding such impiety.''. None

2. New Testament, Matthew, 8.31-8.32 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Arnobius, defends Christian writers • Nicene theology, Cyril defending

Found in books: Azar (2016) 179, 181, 182, 183; Simmons(1995) 246

8.31. οἱ δὲ δαίμονες παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν λέγοντες Εἰ ἐκβάλλεις ἡμᾶς, ἀπόστειλον ἡμᾶς εἰς τὴν ἀγέλην τῶν χοίρων. 8.32. καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Ὑπάγετε. οἱ δὲ ἐξελθόντες ἀπῆλθαν εἰς τοὺς χοίρους· καὶ ἰδοὺ ὥρμησεν πᾶσα ἡ ἀγέλη κατὰ τοῦ κρημνοῦ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἀπέθανον ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν.''. None

8.31. The demons begged him, saying, "If you cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of pigs." 8.32. He said to them, "Go!"They came out, and went into the herd of pigs: and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water. ''. 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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