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subject	book bibliographic info
dismemberment	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 52, 63, 66, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 141, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 160, 161, 162, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 186, 187, 188, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 252, 343, 390, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 425, 426, 427, 429, 560, 562, 568, 574, 575 Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 227, 228, 230, 231
dismemberment, and death of dionysus	Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 66, 67, 75, 76, 77, 79, 81, 85, 127, 152, 153, 157
dismemberment, dionysus	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 62, 64, 65, 66, 111, 348
dismemberment, of dionysos	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 203, 211

List of validated texts:

9 validated results for "dismemberment"

1. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysos, dismemberment of • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 146; Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 203

^69c κάθαρσίς τις τῶν τοιούτων πάντων καὶ ἡ σωφροσύνη καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη καὶ ἀνδρεία, καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ φρόνησις μὴ καθαρμός τις ᾖ. καὶ κινδυνεύουσι καὶ οἱ τὰς τελετὰς ἡμῖν οὗτοι καταστήσαντες οὐ φαῦλοί τινες εἶναι, ἀλλὰ τῷ ὄντι πάλαι αἰνίττεσθαι ὅτι ὃς ἂν ἀμύητος καὶ ἀτέλεστος εἰς Ἅιδου ἀφίκηται ἐν βορβόρῳ κείσεται, ὁ δὲ κεκαθαρμένος τε καὶ τετελεσμένος ἐκεῖσε ἀφικόμενος μετὰ θεῶν οἰκήσει. εἰσὶν γὰρ δή, ὥς φασιν οἱ περὶ τὰς τελετάς, ναρθηκοφόροι'' None

^69c from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification. And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in the mysteries, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few ;'' None

2. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysus, dismemberment and death of • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 155; Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 127

^614b ince there are not many things to which I would more gladly listen. It is not, let me tell you, said I, the tale to Alcinous told that I shall unfold, but the tale of a warrior bold, Er, the son of Armenius, by race a Pamphylian. He once upon a time was slain in battle, and when the corpses were taken up on the tenth day already decayed, was found intact, and having been brought home, at the moment of his funeral, on the twelfth day as he lay upon the pyre, revived, and after coming to life related what, he said, he had seen in the world beyond. He said that when his soul went forth from his body he journeyed with a great company'' None

3. Sophocles, Electra, 1354 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysos, dismemberment of • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343; Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 211

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1354 O joyous day! O sole preserver of Agamemnon’s house,'' None

4. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysus, dismemberment and death of • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 111; Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 77

5. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 3.23.58 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysus, dismemberment • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 560; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 64

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3.23.58 If you accept this conclusion, you will go on to prove that the world is perfectly able to read a book; for following in Zeno\'s footsteps you will be able to construct a syllogism as follows: \'That which is literate is superior to that which is illiterate; but nothing is superior to the world; therefore the world is literate.\' By this mode of reasoning the world will also be an orator, and even a mathematician, a musician, and in fact an expert in every branch of learning, in fine a philosopher. You kept repeating that the world is the sole source of all created things, and that nature\'s capacity does not include the power to create things unlike herself: am I to admit that the world is not only a living being, and wise, but also a harper and a flute-player, because it gives birth also to men skilled in these arts? Well then, your father of the Stoic school really adduces no reason why we should think that the world is rational, or even alive. Therefore the world is not god; and nevertheless there is nothing superior to the world, for there is nothing more beautiful than it, nothing more conducive to our health, nothing more ornate to the view, or more regular in motion. "And if the world as a whole isn\'t god, neither are the stars, which in all are countless numbers you wanted to reckon as gods, enlarging with delight upon their uniform and everlasting movements, and I protest with good reason, for they display a marvellous and extraordinary regularity. '' None

6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 3.62.6, 3.62.8, 5.75.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysus, dismemberment • Dionysus, dismemberment and death of • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 111, 420, 560; Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 76; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 62, 64

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3.62.6 \xa0And though the writers of myths have handed down the account of a\xa0third birth as well, at which, as they say, the Sons of Gaia tore to pieces the god, who was a son of Zeus and Demeter, and boiled him, but his members were brought together again by Demeter and he experienced a new birth as if for the first time, such accounts as this they trace back to certain causes found in nature. ^3.62.8 \xa0And with these stories the teachings agree which are set forth in the Orphic poems and are introduced into their rites, but it is not lawful to recount them in detail to the uninitiated. ^5.75.4 \xa0As for Dionysus, the myths state that he discovered the vine and its cultivation, and also how to make wine and to store away many of the autumn fruits and thus to provide mankind with the use of them as food over a long time. This god was born in Crete, men say, of Zeus and PersephonÃª, and Orpheus has handed down the tradition in the initiatory rites that he was torn in pieces by the Titans. And the fact is that there have been several who bore the name Dionysus, regarding whom we have given a detailed account at greater length in connection with the more appropriate period of time.'' None

7. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysus, dismemberment • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 420; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 64

8. None, None, nan (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysus, dismemberment and death of • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 560; Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 152

9. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysus, dismemberment • dismemberment

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 111, 420, 574; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 62, 66

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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