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subject	book bibliographic info
dike	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 446 Folit-Weinberg (2022), Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration, 82, 99 Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 307, 308 Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 129 Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 127 Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 34, 334, 337, 347 Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, 33 Verhelst and Scheijnens (2022), Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context, 157 de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 331, 367
dike, agamemnon, and	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 117
dike, aikeias	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 75, 86, 125, 130, 297
dike, and evaluation	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121
dike, and pollution	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 122, 123, 124, 125, 134, 135
dike, and stability	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 129, 131, 132, 133
dike, athena, and	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 131, 132
dike, bebaioseos	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 90
dike, between revenge justice and wider justice	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 119, 120, 121, 124, 125
dike, biaion	Kapparis (2021), Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens, 75, 76 Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 43, 53, 54, 75
dike, blabes	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 43, 75, 233
dike, clytemnestra, and	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 117, 118, 120
dike, dike, , also personified as	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 50, 117, 172, 210
dike, draco, and	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 118, 121
dike, eis daitêtôn hairesin	Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 226
dike, exoules, dike, emporike, cf. maritime cases	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 74
dike, important in the oresteia	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 115
dike, in statius, pietas, as	Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 143, 144
dike, kakegorias	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 110
dike, orestes, and	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 118, 124, 125
dike, phonou	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 26, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 55, 94, 233
dike, pollution, and	Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 122, 123, 124, 125, 134, 135
dike, pseudomarturion	Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 312
dike, trial	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 17, 251, 299
dike, trial, false witness	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 260
dike, zeus, and	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 192, 193, 197
dike, δίκη, virgo	Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 11, 41, 102, 116, 132, 136, 177
dike, δίκη, virgo, aratus’ myth of ph	Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
dike, δίκη, virgo, in statius’ thebaid	Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145
dike/adika, erga/adikos in theognidea, justice	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 272
dikes, kathaper eg	Dignas (2002), Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, 158

List of validated texts:

13 validated results for "dike"

1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 197-200, 225-237, 254-262 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dike • Dike (Δίκη, Virgo) • Dike (Δίκη, Virgo), Aratus’ myth of (Ph • Dike (Δίκη, Virgo), in Statius’ Thebaid • Zeus, and Dike • dike

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 25; Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 25, 141, 177; Maciver (2012), Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, 56, 57, 58, 59; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 192; Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, 33; Verhelst and Scheijnens (2022), Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context, 157

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197 καὶ τότε δὴ πρὸς Ὄλυμπον ἀπὸ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης'¹⁹⁸ λευκοῖσιν φάρεσσι καλυψαμένα χρόα καλὸν ¹⁹⁹ ἀθανάτων μετὰ φῦλον ἴτον προλιπόντʼ ἀνθρώπους ²⁰⁰ Αἰδὼς καὶ Νέμεσις· τὰ δὲ λείψεται ἄλγεα λυγρὰ ²²⁵ Οἳ δὲ δίκας ξείνοισι καὶ ἐνδήμοισι διδοῦσιν ²²⁶ ἰθείας καὶ μή τι παρεκβαίνουσι δικαίου, ²²⁷ τοῖσι τέθηλε πόλις, λαοὶ δʼ ἀνθεῦσιν ἐν αὐτῇ· ²²⁸ εἰρήνη δʼ ἀνὰ γῆν κουροτρόφος, οὐδέ ποτʼ αὐτοῖς ²²⁹ ἀργαλέον πόλεμον τεκμαίρεται εὐρύοπα Ζεύς· ²³⁰ οὐδέ ποτʼ ἰθυδίκῃσι μετʼ ἀνδράσι λιμὸς ὀπηδεῖ ²³¹ οὐδʼ ἄτη, θαλίῃς δὲ μεμηλότα ἔργα νέμονται. ²³² τοῖσι φέρει μὲν γαῖα πολὺν βίον, οὔρεσι δὲ δρῦς ²³³ ἄκρη μέν τε φέρει βαλάνους, μέσση δὲ μελίσσας· ²³⁴ εἰροπόκοι δʼ ὄιες μαλλοῖς καταβεβρίθασιν· ²³⁵ τίκτουσιν δὲ γυναῖκες ἐοικότα τέκνα γονεῦσιν· ²³⁶ θάλλουσιν δʼ ἀγαθοῖσι διαμπερές· οὐδʼ ἐπὶ νηῶν ²³⁷ νίσσονται, καρπὸν δὲ φέρει ζείδωρος ἄρουρα. ²⁵⁴ οἵ ῥα φυλάσσουσίν τε δίκας καὶ σχέτλια ἔργα ²⁵⁵ ἠέρα ἑσσάμενοι, πάντη φοιτῶντες ἐπʼ αἶαν. ²⁵⁶ ἡ δέ τε παρθένος ἐστὶ Δίκη, Διὸς ἐκγεγαυῖα, ²⁵⁷ κυδρή τʼ αἰδοίη τε θεῶν, οἳ Ὄλυμπον ἔχουσιν. ²⁵⁸ καί ῥʼ ὁπότʼ ἄν τίς μιν βλάπτῃ σκολιῶς ὀνοτάζων, ²⁵⁹ αὐτίκα πὰρ Διὶ πατρὶ καθεζομένη Κρονίωνι ²⁶⁰ γηρύετʼ ἀνθρώπων ἄδικον νόον, ὄφρʼ ἀποτίσῃ ²⁶¹ δῆμος ἀτασθαλίας βασιλέων, οἳ λυγρὰ νοεῦντες ²⁶² ἄλλῃ παρκλίνωσι δίκας σκολιῶς ἐνέποντες. ' None

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197 Find fault with them in their irreverence'¹⁹⁸ And not repay their bringing up. We’ll find ¹⁹⁹ Cities brought down. There’ll be no deference ²⁰⁰ That’s given to the honest, just and kind. ²²⁵ Perses – heed justice and shun haughtiness; ²²⁶ It aids no common man: nobles can’t stay ²²⁷ It easily because it will oppre ²²⁸ Us all and bring disgrace. The better way ²²⁹ Is Justice, who will outstrip Pride at last. ²³⁰ Fools learn this by experience because ²³¹ The God of Oaths, by running very fast, ²³² Keeps pace with and requites all crooked laws. ²³³ When men who swallow bribes and crookedly ²³⁴ Pass sentences and drag Justice away, ²³⁵ There’s great turmoil, and then, in misery ²³⁶ Weeping and covered in a misty spray, ²³⁷ She comes back to the city, carrying ²⁵⁴ Against proud, evil men. The wickedne ²⁵⁵ of one man often sways whole cities, for ²⁵⁶ The son of Cronus sends from heaven distress, ²⁵⁷ Both plague and famine, causing death amid ²⁵⁸ Its folk, its women barren. Homes decline ²⁵⁹ By Zeus’s plan. Sometimes he will consign ²⁶⁰ Broad armies to destruction or will bid ²⁶¹ Them of their walls and take their ships away. ²⁶² Lords, note this punishment. The gods are nigh ' None

2. Hesiod, Theogony, 27-28, 79, 901-906 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dike • Dike (Δίκη, Virgo), Aratus’ myth of (Ph • dike

Found in books: Folit-Weinberg (2022), Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration, 99; Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 33, 34; Lipka (2021), Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism: Textual Genres and 'Reality' from Homer to Heliodorus, 71; Maciver (2012), Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, 60; Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 34, 334; Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, 33; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 331

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27 ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα,'²⁸ ἴδμεν δʼ, εὖτʼ ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα γηρύσασθαι. ⁷⁹ Καλλιόπη θʼ· ἣ δὲ προφερεστάτη ἐστὶν ἁπασέων. ⁹⁰¹ δεύτερον ἠγάγετο λιπαρὴν Θέμιν, ἣ τέκεν Ὥρας, ⁹⁰² Εὐνουμίην τε Δίκην τε καὶ Εἰρήνην τεθαλυῖαν, ⁹⁰³ αἳ ἔργʼ ὠρεύουσι καταθνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι, ⁹⁰⁴ Μοίρας θʼ, ᾗ πλείστην τιμὴν πόρε μητίετα Ζεύς, ⁹⁰⁵ Κλωθώ τε Λάχεσίν τε καὶ Ἄτροπον, αἵτε διδοῦσι ⁹⁰⁶ θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποισιν ἔχειν ἀγαθόν τε κακόν τε. ' None

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27 Those daughters of Lord Zeus proclaimed to me:'²⁸ “You who tend sheep, full of iniquity, ⁷⁹ Rose up. They to their father made their way, ⁹⁰¹ A bull, unruly, proud and furious, ⁹⁰² Would sound, sometimes a lion, mercile ⁹⁰³ At heart, sometimes – most wonderful to hear – ⁹⁰⁴ The sound of whelps was heard, sometimes the ear ⁹⁰⁵ Would catch a hissing sound, which then would change ⁹⁰⁶ To echoing along the mountain range. ' None

3. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 647-651 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dike • dike, and pollution • pollution, and dike

Found in books: Maciver (2012), Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, 62; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 122, 123

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647 προχαλκεύει δʼ Αἶσα φασγανουργός·'⁶⁴⁸ τέκνον δʼ ἐπεισφέρει δόμοισιν' '⁶⁵⁰ αἱμάτων παλαιτέρων τίνειν μύσος ⁶⁵¹ χρόνῳ κλυτὰ βυσσόφρων Ἐρινύς. Ὀρέστης ' None

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647 The anvil of Justice is planted firm. Destiny fashions her arms and forges her sword quickly, and the famed and deeply brooding Fury is bringing the son into our house, '⁶⁴⁸ The anvil of Justice is planted firm. Destiny fashions her arms and forges her sword quickly, and the famed and deeply brooding Fury is bringing the son into our house, ⁶⁵⁰ to requite at last the pollution of blood shed long ago. Enter, with attendants, Orestes and Pylades before the palace Orestes ' None

4. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dike • Orestes, and dike • dike • dike, and pollution • dike, and stability • dike, between revenge justice and wider justice • pollution, and dike

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 33; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 124, 129

5. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dike

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 104; Folit-Weinberg (2022), Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration, 82

6. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • dike (also personified as Dike) • dike (trial) • dike phonou

Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 251; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 39, 50

7. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • dike aikeias • dike pseudomarturion

Found in books: Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 312; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 86

8. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • dike aikeias • dike, aikeias • dike, biaion • dike, blabes

Found in books: Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 125; Spatharas (2019), Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens, 94, 97, 103, 118

9. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dike • Dike (Δίκη, Virgo), Aratus’ myth of (Ph

Found in books: Gee (2013), Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition, 29, 30; Maciver (2012), Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, 64, 65; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 331

10. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dike • dike phonou

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 26; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 40

11. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.112, 54.34, 54.39
Tagged with subjects: • dike (trial) • dike (trial), false witness • dike eis daitêtôn hairesin • dike phonou • dike pseudomarturion • dike, aikeias

Found in books: Eidinow (2007), Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks, 312; Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 226; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 251, 260; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 40, 47; Spatharas (2019), Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens, 107

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21.112 For, if I may add a word on this subject also, where the rich are concerned, Athenians, the rest of us have no share in our just and equal rights. Indeed we have not. The rich can choose their own time for facing a jury, and their crimes are stale and cold when they are dished up before you, but if any of the rest of us is in trouble, he is brought into court while all is fresh. The rich have witnesses and counsel in readiness, all primed against us; but, as you see, my witnesses are some of them unwilling even to bear testimony to the truth. ^54.34 Ah but, they will say, they are not people of that sort. I am inclined to think, however, that many of you know Diotimus and Archebiades and Chaeretimus, the grey-headed man yonder, men who by day put on sour looks and pretend to play the Spartan Many men in Athens in the days of Plato and Demosthenes, as an indication of their contempt for democracy and a protest against the decay of morals, sought to imitate the Spartan severity in dress and manners. Men such as those whom the writer is here depicting would not unnaturally seek by this means to build up a spurious reputation for austerity. and wear short cloaks and single-soled shoes, but when they get together and are by themselves leave no form of wickedness or indecency untried. ^54.39 The contempt, however, which this fellow feels for all sacred things I must tell you about; for I have been forced to make inquiry. For I hear, then, men of the jury, that a certain Bacchius, who was condemned to death in your court, and Aristocrates, the man with the bad eyes, and certain others of the same stamp, and with them this man Conon , were intimates when they were youths, and bore the nickname Triballi The Triballi were a wild Thracian people. Many parallels for the use of the name to denote a club of lawless youths at Athens might be cited. Sandys refers to the Mohock club of eighteenth century London . ; and that these men used to devour the food set out for Hecatê The witch-goddess worshipped at cross roads. Portions of victims which had served for purification were set out for her. To take and eat this food might connote extreme poverty, but suggested also an utter disregard for sacred things. and to gather up on each occasion for their dinner with one another the testicles of the pigs which are offered for purification when the assembly convenes, Young pigs were sacrificed in a ceremonial purification of the place of meeting before the people entered the ἐκκλησία (the popular assembly). and that they thought less of swearing and perjuring themselves than of anything else in the world.' ' None

12. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Dike

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 24, 25; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 367

13. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • dike (trial) • dike biaion • dike phonou

Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 251; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 36, 53

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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