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subject	book bibliographic info
drusilla	Baumann and Liotsakis (2022), Reading History in the Roman Empire, 120 Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 47, 325 Bremmer (2017), Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity: Collected Essays, 78 Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 123 Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 49 Levine Allison and Crossan (2006), The Historical Jesus in Context, 22, 317 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 342 Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 34, 39, 40, 56 Tomson (2019), Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries. 543, 571
drusilla, as exemplum, livia	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 94
drusilla, conflict with agrippina, livia	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 84, 199
drusilla, divorce and remarriage of livia	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 109
drusilla, drusilla, , iulia	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 97, 196, 203
drusilla, honorific titles for, livia	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 197
drusilla, influence of livia	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 210, 211
drusilla, iulia livia augusta	Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 53, 64
drusilla, julia	Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 242, 244
drusilla, julia augusta, livia	Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 2, 6, 16, 32, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 66, 70, 98, 112, 127, 131, 144, 150, 158, 182, 200, 201, 202, 208, 217, 220, 231, 244
drusilla, livia	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 52, 54 Chrysanthou (2022), Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. 112, 155, 156, 209
drusilla, physical incompatibility with augustus, livia	Hug (2023), Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome, 54
drusilla, sister of caligula	Edmondson (2008), Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture, 24 Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 330
drusilla, tertia	Phang (2001), The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C. - A.D. 235), 23, 33, 34, 192
drusilla/julia, augusta, livia	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 122

List of validated texts:

9 validated results for "drusilla"

1. Ovid, Fasti, 6.637-6.638 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Livia Drusilla (Iulia Augusta) • Livia Drusilla, Julia Augusta

Found in books: Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 46, 47; Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 64

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6.637 Te quoque magnifica, Concordia, dedicat aede ^6.638 Livia, quam caro praestitit ipsa viro.'' None

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6.637 His father showed his paternity by touching the child’ ^6.638 Head with fire, and a cap of flames glowed on his hair.'' None

2. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 20.142-20.145 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Drusilla • Drusilla, sister of Caligula

Found in books: Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 47, 325; Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 123; Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 330; Tomson (2019), Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries. 543

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20.142 καθ' ὃν χρόνον τῆς ̓Ιουδαίας ἐπετρόπευε Φῆλιξ θεασάμενος ταύτην, καὶ γὰρ ἦν κάλλει πασῶν διαφέρουσα, λαμβάνει τῆς γυναικὸς ἐπιθυμίαν, καὶ ̓́Ατομον ὀνόματι τῶν ἑαυτοῦ φίλων ̓Ιουδαῖον, Κύπριον δὲ τὸ γένος, μάγον εἶναι σκηπτόμενον πέμπων πρὸς αὐτὴν ἔπειθεν τὸν ἄνδρα καταλιποῦσαν αὐτῷ γήμασθαι, μακαρίαν ποιήσειν ἐπαγγελλόμενος μὴ ὑπερηφανήσασαν αὐτόν." "^20.143 ἡ δὲ κακῶς πράττουσα καὶ φυγεῖν τὸν ἐκ τῆς ἀδελφῆς Βερενίκης βουλομένη φθόνον αὑτῇ διὰ τὸ κάλλος παρεκάλει παρ' ἐκείνης οἰόμενος οὐκ ἐν ὀλίγοις ἔβλαπτεν, παραβῆναί τε τὰ πάτρια νόμιμα πείθεται καὶ τῷ Φήλικι γήμασθαι." "^20.144 τεκοῦσα δ' ἐξ αὐτοῦ παῖδα προσηγόρευσεν ̓Αγρίππαν. ἀλλ' ὃν μὲν τρόπον ὁ νεανίας οὗτος σὺν τῇ γυναικὶ κατὰ τὴν ἐκπύρωσιν τοῦ Βεσβίου ὄρους ἐπὶ τῶν Τίτου Καίσαρος χρόνων ἠφανίσθη, μετὰ ταῦτα δηλώσω." '^20.145 Βερενίκη δὲ μετὰ τὴν ̔Ηρώδου τελευτήν, ὃς αὐτῆς ἀνὴρ καὶ θεῖος ἐγεγόνει, πολὺν χρόνον ἐπιχηρεύσασα, φήμης ἐπισχούσης, ὅτι τἀδελφῷ συνείη, πείθει Πολέμωνα, Κιλικίας δὲ ἦν οὗτος βασιλεύς, περιτεμόμενον ἀγαγέσθαι πρὸς γάμον αὐτήν: οὕτως γὰρ ἐλέγξειν ᾤετο ψευδεῖς τὰς διαβολάς.'" None

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20.142 While Felix was procurator of Judea, he saw this Drusilla, and fell in love with her; for she did indeed exceed all other women in beauty; and he sent to her a person whose name was Simon one of his friends; a Jew he was, and by birth a Cypriot, and one who pretended to be a magician, and endeavored to persuade her to forsake her present husband, and marry him; and promised, that if she would not refuse him, he would make her a happy woman. ^20.143 Accordingly she acted ill, and because she was desirous to avoid her sister Bernice’s envy, for she was very ill treated by her on account of her beauty, was prevailed upon to transgress the laws of her forefathers, and to marry Felix; and when he had had a son by her, he named him Agrippa. ^20.144 But after what manner that young man, with his wife, perished at the conflagration of the mountain Vesuvius, in the days of Titus Caesar, shall be related hereafter. ^20.145 3. But as for Bernice, she lived a widow a long while after the death of Herod king of Chalcis, who was both her husband and her uncle; but when the report went that she had criminal conversation with her brother, Agrippa, junior, she persuaded Poleme, who was king of Cilicia, to be circumcised, and to marry her, as supposing that by this means she should prove those calumnies upon her to be false;'' None

3. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.254-2.257, 2.260, 2.263 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Drusilla

Found in books: Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 123; Tomson (2019), Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries. 571

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2.254 Καθαρθείσης δὲ τῆς χώρας ἕτερον εἶδος λῃστῶν ἐν ̔Ιεροσολύμοις ἐπεφύετο, οἱ καλούμενοι σικάριοι, μεθ' ἡμέραν καὶ ἐν μέσῃ τῇ πόλει φονεύοντες ἀνθρώπους," '^2.255 μάλιστα δὲ ἐν ταῖς ἑορταῖς μισγόμενοι τῷ πλήθει καὶ ταῖς ἐσθῆσιν ὑποκρύπτοντες μικρὰ ξιφίδια, τούτοις ἔνυττον τοὺς διαφόρους, ἔπειτα πεσόντων μέρος ἐγίνοντο τῶν ἐπαγανακτούντων οἱ πεφονευκότες, διὸ καὶ παντάπασιν ὑπὸ ἀξιοπιστίας ἦσαν ἀνεύρετοι.' "^2.256 πρῶτος μὲν οὖν ὑπ' αὐτῶν ̓Ιωνάθης ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς ἀποσφάττεται, μετὰ δ' αὐτὸν καθ' ἡμέραν ἀνῃροῦντο πολλοί: καὶ τῶν συμφορῶν ὁ φόβος ἦν χαλεπώτερος, ἑκάστου καθάπερ ἐν πολέμῳ καθ' ὥραν τὸν θάνατον προσδεχομένου." '^2.257 προεσκοποῦντο δὲ πόρρωθεν τοὺς διαφόρους, καὶ οὐδὲ τοῖς φίλοις προσιοῦσιν πίστις ἦν, ἐν μέσαις δὲ ταῖς ὑπονοίαις καὶ ταῖς φυλακαῖς ἀνῃροῦντο: τοσοῦτον τῶν ἐπιβουλευόντων τὸ τάχος ἦν καὶ τοῦ λαθεῖν ἡ τέχνη.' "^2.263 φθάνει δ' αὐτοῦ τὴν ὁρμὴν Φῆλιξ ὑπαντήσας μετὰ τῶν ̔Ρωμαϊκῶν ὁπλιτῶν, καὶ πᾶς ὁ δῆμος συνεφήψατο τῆς ἀμύνης, ὥστε συμβολῆς γενομένης τὸν μὲν Αἰγύπτιον φυγεῖν μετ' ὀλίγων, διαφθαρῆναι δὲ καὶ ζωγρηθῆναι πλείστους τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν πλῆθος σκεδασθὲν ἐπὶ τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἕκαστον διαλαθεῖν." " None

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2.254 3. When the country was purged of these, there sprang up another sort of robbers in Jerusalem, which were called Sicarii, who slew men in the daytime, and in the midst of the city; ^2.255 this they did chiefly at the festivals, when they mingled themselves among the multitude, and concealed daggers under their garments, with which they stabbed those that were their enemies; and when any fell down dead, the murderers became a part of those that had indignation against them; by which means they appeared persons of such reputation, that they could by no means be discovered. ^2.256 The first man who was slain by them was Jonathan the high priest, after whose death many were slain every day, while the fear men were in of being so served was more afflicting than the calamity itself; ^2.257 and while everybody expected death every hour, as men do in war, so men were obliged to look before them, and to take notice of their enemies at a great distance; nor, if their friends were coming to them, durst they trust them any longer; but, in the midst of their suspicions and guarding of themselves, they were slain. Such was the celerity of the plotters against them, and so cunning was their contrivance. ^2.263 But Felix prevented his attempt, and met him with his Roman soldiers, while all the people assisted him in his attack upon them, insomuch that when it came to a battle, the Egyptian ran away, with a few others, while the greatest part of those that were with him were either destroyed or taken alive; but the rest of the multitude were dispersed every one to their own homes, and there concealed themselves.' ' None

4. New Testament, Acts, 24.24 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Drusilla

Found in books: Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 123; Levine Allison and Crossan (2006), The Historical Jesus in Context, 22; Tomson (2019), Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries. 543

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24.24 Μετὰ δὲ ἡμέρας τινὰς παραγενόμενος ὁ Φῆλιξ σὺν Δρουσίλλῃ τῇ ἰδίᾳ γυναικὶ οὔσῃ Ἰουδαίᾳ μετεπέμψατο τὸν Παῦλον καὶ ἤκουσεν αὐτοῦ περὶ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν Ἰησοῦν πίστεως.'' None

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24.24 But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus. '' None

5. Tacitus, Histories, 5.9 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Drusilla

Found in books: Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 123; Tomson (2019), Studies on Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries. 571

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5.9 \xa0The first Roman to subdue the Jews and set foot in their temple by right of conquest was Gnaeus Pompey; thereafter it was a matter of common knowledge that there were no representations of the gods within, but that the place was empty and the secret shrine contained nothing. The walls of Jerusalem were razed, but the temple remained standing. Later, in the time of our civil wars, when these eastern provinces had fallen into the hands of Mark Antony, the Parthian prince, Pacorus, seized Judea, but he was slain by Publius Ventidius, and the Parthians were thrown back across the Euphrates: the Jews were subdued by Gaius Sosius. Antony gave the throne to Herod, and Augustus, after his victory, increased his power. After Herod's death, a certain Simon assumed the name of king without waiting for Caesar's decision. He, however, was put to death by Quintilius Varus, governor of Syria; the Jews were repressed; and the kingdom was divided into three parts and given to Herod's sons. Under Tiberius all was quiet. Then, when Caligula ordered the Jews to set up his statue in their temple, they chose rather to resort to arms, but the emperor's death put an end to their uprising. The princes now being dead or reduced to insignificance, Claudius made Judea a province and entrusted it to Roman knights or to freedmen; one of the latter, Antonius Felix, practised every kind of cruelty and lust, wielding the power of king with all the instincts of a slave; he had married Drusilla, the grand-daughter of Cleopatra and Antony, and so was Antony's grandson-inâ\x80\x91law, while Claudius was Antony's grandson."" None

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Drusilla • Livia Drusilla, Julia Augusta

Found in books: Baumann and Liotsakis (2022), Reading History in the Roman Empire, 120; Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 150; Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 34, 40, 56

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

Found in books: Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 342; Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 34

8. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 59.11.4 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Drusilla • Livia Drusilla, Julia Augusta

Found in books: Bremmer (2017), Magic and Martyrs in Early Christianity: Collected Essays, 78; Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 150; Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 34

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59.11.4 \xa0Indeed, a certain Livius Geminius, a senator, declared on oath, invoking destruction upon himself and his children if he spoke falsely, that he had seen her ascending to heaven and holding converse with the gods; and he called all the other gods and Panthea herself to witness. For this declaration he received a\xa0million sesterces.'' None

9. Vergil, Aeneis, 2.724
Tagged with subjects: • Drusilla • Livia Drusilla, Julia Augusta

Found in books: Baumann and Liotsakis (2022), Reading History in the Roman Empire, 120; Erker (2023), Ambiguity and Religion in Ovid’s Fasti: Religious Innovation and the Imperial Family, 150

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2.724 implicuit sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis;'' None

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2.724 not such, Achilles, thy pretended sire, '' 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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