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subject	book bibliographic info
earthquake	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 340, 341, 342, 343, 355, 360 Black, Thomas, and Thompson (2022), Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate. 23 Immendörfer (2017), Ephesians and Artemis : The Cult of the Great Goddess of Ephesus As the Epistle's Context 84, 93, 94, 95, 105, 133, 180, 183, 279 Klein and Wienand (2022), City of Caesar, City of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity, 54, 56, 74, 76, 97, 124, 130, 178, 226, 227, 231, 270, 271, 275 Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 217, 298, 313, 342 Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 302, 311, 313, 314, 315, 316, 321 Rupke (2016), Religious Deviance in the Roman World Superstition or Individuality?, 18 Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 335, 339 Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben (2020), Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity, 1, 138, 148, 293
earthquake, apparently singular effects of campanian	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 213, 219
earthquake, at delos	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 217, 298, 313, 342
earthquake, at lake trasumene, coelius antipater, l., on	Konrad (2022), The Challenge to the Auspices: Studies on Magisterial Power in the Middle Roman Republic, 245, 246, 247
earthquake, campanian	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 213, 214, 217, 218, 219, 245, 248, 250, 251, 256
earthquake, damage, dead sea scrolls, and	Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 298
earthquake, date, 62 or campanian 63?	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 10, 213
earthquake, distinguished by, posidonius, kinds of	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 247
earthquake, in mystic initiation, thunder, lightning and	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 335
earthquake, kant, immanuel, and lisbon	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 225
earthquake, kills many jews but few christians	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 382
earthquake, nature, natural phenomena	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun (2014), The History of Religions School Today : Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts 20, 39, 42, 145, 152, 157, 166, 216
earthquake, of pompeii	McGinn (2004), The Economy of Prostitution in the Roman world: A study of Social History & The Brothel. 62, 181, 280, 281, 284
earthquake, oracle, against an	Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 162
earthquake, paphos, cyprus	Csapo et al. (2022), Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World, 131, 133
earthquake, poseidon soter, and	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 12, 110, 152, 153, 154
earthquake, precursor of vesuvian eruption of campanian	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 251
earthquake, presentation of thucydides, delian	Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 266
earthquake, public land dispute resolution, after	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 171
earthquake, qumran, c.	Taylor (2012), The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea, 342
earthquake, rhodes/rhodians,	Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 267
earthquake, signals divine favor for barsauma	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 263
earthquake, theory, aristotle	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 240, 241
earthquakes	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 243 Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 164 Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 101, 164, 165, 170, 171 Huttner (2013), Early Christianity in the Lycus Valley, 100, 101, 102, 103, 114, 115, 133, 159, 173, 366 Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269 Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 67, 340, 369 Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 276, 286, 303, 314, 344 Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 14, 249, 267, 345, 382, 433, 461, 493, 539, 545 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 12, 269, 270, 305, 311 Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 248, 249 van der EIjk (2005), Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease, 61
earthquakes, anaxagoras, fire-theory of	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 237, 238
earthquakes, and poseidon, volcanos, association with	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 73, 74, 89
earthquakes, and volcanos, association of poseidon with	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 73, 74, 89
earthquakes, and water, anaximander, on	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 262
earthquakes, and, synagogues, jewish	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 113
earthquakes, association of poseidon with, volcanos and	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 73, 74, 89
earthquakes, confirmed historical seismicity of	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 249
earthquakes, construction of new jerusalem temple under julian and	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 113
earthquakes, dionysos, and	Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 335
earthquakes, during the reign of justinian	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 286, 287
earthquakes, elements, causal role in	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247
earthquakes, epithets, related to soter/soteira, in	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 109, 110
earthquakes, in asia minor	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 286, 382
earthquakes, in constantinople	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 286
earthquakes, in john malalas	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 286, 287, 382
earthquakes, in palestine	Kraemer (2020), The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews, 286
earthquakes, in philosophy	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 258, 262
earthquakes, meteorology	Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 121, 123, 124, 138, 143
earthquakes, prodigial	Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 35, 73, 162, 163, 164, 215, 250, 254, 256, 257, 259
earthquakes, seneca, youthful writing on	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 230
earthquakes, stoicism, pneumatic explanation of	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 242, 245
earthquakes, wonders of relative to sicily	Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 116
earthquakes, zeus soter, and	Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 7, 11, 70, 71, 109, 110, 111, 115

List of validated texts:

9 validated results for "earthquake"

1. Euripides, Bacchae, 585 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Dionysos, and earthquakes • earthquake • mystic initiation, thunder, lightning and earthquake in

Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 340, 341, 342; Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 335

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585 σεῖε πέδον χθονὸς Ἔννοσι πότνια. Χορός'' None

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585 Shake the world’s plain, lady Earthquake! Choru'' None

2. Herodotus, Histories, 6.27.1, 6.98.1, 6.98.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Campanian earthquake • Delos, earthquake at • earthquake • earthquakes

Found in books: Kirkland (2022), Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature: Criticism, Imitation, Reception, 265, 268, 269; Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 313; Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 250

6.27 φιλέει δέ κως προσημαίνειν, εὖτʼ ἂν μέλλῃ μεγάλα κακὰ ἢ πόλι ἢ ἔθνεϊ ἔσεσθαι· καὶ γὰρ Χίοισι πρὸ τούτων σημήια μεγάλα ἐγένετο· τοῦτο μέν σφι πέμψασι ἐς Δελφοὺς χορὸν νεηνιέων ἑκατὸν δύο μοῦνοι τούτων ἀπενόστησαν, τοὺς δὲ ὀκτώ τε καὶ ἐνενήκοντα αὐτῶν λοιμὸς ὑπολαβὼν ἀπήνεικε· τοῦτο δὲ ἐν τῇ πόλι τὸν αὐτὸν τοῦτον χρόνον, ὀλίγον πρὸ τῆς ναυμαχίης, παισὶ γράμματα διδασκομένοισι ἐνέπεσε ἡ στέγη, ὥστε ἀπʼ ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι παίδων εἷς μοῦνος ἀπέφυγε. ταῦτα μὲν σφι σημήια ὁ θεὸς προέδεξε, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἡ ναυμαχίη ὑπολαβοῦσα ἐς γόνυ τὴν πόλιν ἔβαλε, ἐπὶ δὲ τῇ ναυμαχίῃ ἐπεγένετο Ἱστιαῖος Λεσβίους ἄγων· κεκακωμένων δὲ τῶν Χίων, καταστροφὴν εὐπετέως αὐτῶν ἐποιήσατο.' ' None

6.27 It is common for some sign to be given when great ills threaten cities or nations; for before all this plain signs had been sent to the Chians. ,of a band of a hundred youths whom they had sent to Delphi only two returned, ninety-eight being caught and carried off by pestilence; moreover, at about this same time, a little before the sea-fight, the roof fell in on boys learning their letters: of one hundred and twenty of them one alone escaped. ,These signs a god showed to them; then the sea-fight broke upon them and beat the city to its knees; on top of the sea-fight came Histiaeus and the Lesbians. Since the Chians were in such a bad state, he easily subdued them. ^6.98.1 After doing this, Datis sailed with his army against Eretria first, taking with him Ionians and Aeolians; and after he had put out from there, Delos was shaken by an earthquake, the first and last, as the Delians say, before my time. This portent was sent by heaven, as I suppose, to be an omen of the ills that were coming on the world. ^6.98.3 Thus it was no marvel that there should be an earthquake in Delos when there had been none before. Also there was an oracle concerning Delos, where it was written:

3. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Campanian earthquake • Delos, earthquake at • earthquake

Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 217, 298; Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 250

4. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristotle, earthquake theory • Campanian earthquake • Campanian earthquake, apparently singular effects of • Campanian earthquake, precursor of Vesuvian eruption of • air / wind, subterranean winds as causes of earthquakes and volcanoes • disease, as a means of understanding earthquakes and volcanoes • earthquakes

Found in books: Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 99, 100, 104, 105, 106, 107; Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 219, 241, 251

5. Tacitus, Annals, 4.13.1, 4.64.1, 12.43, 12.43.1, 12.64.1, 13.17.2, 13.24.2, 14.22.1, 15.22, 15.22.2, 16.13.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • earthquake • earthquakes • earthquakes, Lisbon earthquake • earthquakes, prodigial

Found in books: Black, Thomas, and Thompson (2022), Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate. 23; Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 162, 163, 164, 215; Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 164, 165; Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 302; Sattler (2021), Ancient Ethics and the Natural World, 62; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 269, 270, 305, 311

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12.43 Multa eo anno prodigia evenere. insessum diris avibus Capitolium, crebris terrae motibus prorutae domus, ac dum latius metuitur, trepidatione vulgi invalidus quisque obtriti; frugum quoque egestas et orta ex eo fames in prodigium accipiebatur. nec occulti tantum questus, sed iura reddentem Claudium circumvasere clamoribus turbidis, pulsumque in extremam fori partem vi urgebant, donec militum globo infensos perrupit. quindecim dierum alimenta urbi, non amplius superfuisse constitit, magnaque deum benignitate et modestia hiemis rebus extremis subventum. at hercule olim Italia legionibus longinquas in provincias commeatus portabat, nec nunc infecunditate laboratur, sed Africam potius et Aegyptum exercemus, navibusque et casibus vita populi Romani permissa est. ^15.22 Magno adsensu celebrata sententia. non tamen senatus consultum perfici potuit, abnuentibus consulibus ea de re relatum. mox auctore principe sanxere ne quis ad concilium sociorum referret agendas apud senatum pro praetoribus prove consulibus grates, neu quis ea legatione fungeretur. Isdem consulibus gymnasium ictu fulminis conflagravit effigiesque in eo Neronis ad informe aes liquefacta. et motu terrae celebre Campaniae oppidum Pompei magna ex parte proruit; defunctaque virgo Vestalis Laelia, in cuius locum Cornelia ex familia Cossorum capta est.' ' None

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4.13.1 \xa0Meanwhile Tiberius had in no way relaxed his attention to public business, but, accepting work as a consolation, was dealing with judicial cases at Rome and petitions from the provinces. On his proposal, senatorial resolutions were passed to relieve the towns of Cibyra in Asia and Aegium in Achaia, both damaged by earthquake, by remitting their tribute for three years. Vibius Serenus, too, the proconsul of Further Spain, was condemned on a charge of public violence, and deported, as the result of his savage character, to the island of Amorgus. Carsidius Sacerdos, accused of supplying grain to a public enemy in the person of Tacfarinas, was acquitted; and the same charge failed against Gaius Gracchus. Gracchus had been taken in earliest infancy by his father Sempronius to share his banishment in the company of landless men, destitute of all liberal achievements; later, he eked out a livelihood by mean trading transactions in Africa and Sicily: yet even so he failed to escape the hazards reserved for rank and fortune. Indeed, had not Aelius Lamia and Lucius Apronius, former governors of Africa, come to the rescue of his innocence, he would have been swept to ruin by the fame of his calamitous house and the disasters of his father. ^4.64.1 \xa0The disaster had not yet faded from memory, when a fierce outbreak of fire affected the city to an unusual degree by burning down the Caelian Hill. "It was a fatal year, and the sovereign\'s decision to absent himself had been adopted under an evil star" â\x80\x94 so men began to remark, converting, as is the habit of the crowd, the fortuitous into the culpable, when the Caesar checked the critics by a distribution of money in proportion to loss sustained. Thanks were returned to him; in the senate, by the noble; in the streets, by the voice of the people: for without respect of persons, and without the intercession of relatives, he had aided with his liberality even unknown sufferers whom he had himself encouraged to apply. Proposals were added that the Caelian Hill should for the future be known as the Augustan, since, with all around on fire, the one thing to remain unscathed had been a bust of Tiberius in the house of the senator Junius. "The same," it was said, "had happened formerly to Claudia Quinta; whose statue, twice escaped from the fury of the flames, our ancestors had dedicated in the temple of the Mother of the Gods. The Claudian race was sacrosanct and acceptable to Heaven, and additional solemnity should be given to the ground on which the gods had shown so notable an honour to the sovereign." ^12.43.1 \xa0Many prodigies occurred during the year. Ominous birds took their seat on the Capitol; houses were overturned by repeated shocks of earthquake, and, as the panic spread, the weak were trampled underfoot in the trepidation of the crowd. A\xa0shortage of corn, again, and the famine which resulted, were construed as a supernatural warning. Nor were the complaints always whispered. Claudius, sitting in judgement, was surrounded by a wildly clamorous mob, and, driven into the farthest corner of the Forum, was there subjected to violent pressure, until, with the help of a body of troops, he forced a way through the hostile throng. It was established that the capital had provisions for fifteen days, no more; and the crisis was relieved only by the especial grace of the gods and the mildness of the winter. And yet, Heaven knows, in the past, Italy exported supplies for the legions into remote provinces; nor is sterility the trouble now, but we cultivate Africa and Egypt by preference, and the life of the Roman nation has been staked upon cargo-boats and accidents. ^12.43 \xa0Many prodigies occurred during the year. Ominous birds took their seat on the Capitol; houses were overturned by repeated shocks of earthquake, and, as the panic spread, the weak were trampled underfoot in the trepidation of the crowd. A\xa0shortage of corn, again, and the famine which resulted, were construed as a supernatural warning. Nor were the complaints always whispered. Claudius, sitting in judgement, was surrounded by a wildly clamorous mob, and, driven into the farthest corner of the Forum, was there subjected to violent pressure, until, with the help of a body of troops, he forced a way through the hostile throng. It was established that the capital had provisions for fifteen days, no more; and the crisis was relieved only by the especial grace of the gods and the mildness of the winter. And yet, Heaven knows, in the past, Italy exported supplies for the legions into remote provinces; nor is sterility the trouble now, but we cultivate Africa and Egypt by preference, and the life of the Roman nation has been staked upon cargo-boats and accidents. < ^12.64.1 \xa0In the consulate of Marcus Asinius and Manius Acilius, it was made apparent by a sequence of prodigies that a change of conditions for the worse was foreshadowed. Fire from heaven played round the standards and tents of the soldiers; a\xa0swarm of bees settled on the pediment of the Capitol; it was stated that hermaphrodites had been born, and that a pig had been produced with the talons of a hawk. It was counted among the portents that each of the magistracies found its numbers diminished, since a quaestor, an aedile, and a tribune, together with a praetor and a consul, had died within a\xa0few months. But especial terror was felt by Agrippina. Disquieted by a remark let fall by Claudius in his cups, that it was his destiny first to suffer and finally to punish the infamy of his wives, she determined to act â\x80\x94 and speedily. First, however, she destroyed Domitia Lepida on a feminine quarrel. For, as the daughter of the younger Antonia, the grand-niece of Augustus, the first cousin once removed of Agrippina, and also the sister of her former husband Gnaeus Domitius, Lepida regarded her family distinctions as equal to those of the princess. In looks, age, and fortune there was little between the pair; and since each was as unchaste, as disreputable, and as violent as the other, their competition in the vices was not less keen than in such advantages as they had received from the kindness of fortune. But the fiercest struggle was on the question whether the domit influence with Nero was to be his aunt or his mother: for Lepida was endeavouring to captivate his youthful mind by a smooth tongue and an open hand, while on the other side Agrippina stood grim and menacing, capable of presenting her son with an empire but not of tolerating him as emperor. ^13.17.2 \xa0The same night saw the murder of Britannicus and his pyre, the funeral apparatus â\x80\x94 modest enough â\x80\x94 having been provided in advance. Still, his ashes were buried in the Field of Mars, under such a tempest of rain that the crowd believed it to foreshadow the anger of the gods against a crime which, even among men, was condoned by the many who took into account the ancient instances of brotherly hatred and the fact that autocracy knows no partnership. The assertion is made by many contemporary authors that, for days before the murder, the worst of all outrages had been offered by Nero to the boyish years of Britannicus: in which case, it ceases to be possible to regard his death as either premature or cruel, though it was amid the sanctities of the table, without even a respite allowed in which to embrace his sister, and under the eyes of his enemy, that the hurried doom fell on this last scion of the Claudian house, upon whom lust had done its unclean work before the poison. The hastiness of the funeral was vindicated in an edict of the Caesar, who called to mind that "it was a national tradition to withdraw these untimely obsequies from the public gaze and not to detain it by panegyrics and processions. However, now that he had lost the aid of his brother, not only were his remaining hopes centred in the state, but the senate and people themselves must so much the more cherish their prince as the one survivor of a family born to the heights of power." < ^13.24.2 \xa0At the end of the year, the cohort usually present on guard at the Games was withdrawn; the objects being to give a greater appearance of liberty, to prevent the troops from being corrupted by too close contact with the licence of the theatre, and to test whether the populace would continue its orderly behaviour when its custodians were removed. A\xa0lustration of the city was carried out by the emperor at the recommendation of the soothsayers, since the temples of Jupiter and Minerva had been struck by lightning. < ^14.22.1 \xa0Meanwhile, a comet blazed into view â\x80\x94 in the opinion of the crowd, an apparition boding change to monarchies. Hence, as though Nero were already dethroned, men began to inquire on whom the next choice should fall; and the name in all mouths was that of Rubellius Plautus, who, on the mother\'s side, drew his nobility from the Julian house. Personally, he cherished the views of an older generation: his bearing was austere, his domestic life being pure and secluded; and the retirement which his fears led him to seek had only brought him an accession of fame. The rumours gained strength from the interpretation â\x80\x94 suggested by equal credulity â\x80\x94 which was placed upon a flash of light. Because, while Nero dined by the Simbruine lakes in the villa known as the Sublaqueum, the banquet had been struck and the table shivered; and because the accident had occurred on the confines of Tibur, the town from which Plautus derived his origin on the father\'s side, a belief spread that he was the candidate marked out by the will of deity; and he found numerous supporters in the class of men who nurse the eager and generally delusive ambition to be the earliest parasites of a new and precarious power. Nero, therefore, perturbed by the reports, drew up a letter to Plautus, advising him "to consult the peace of the capital and extricate himself from the scandal-mongers: he had family estates in Asia, where he could enjoy his youth in safety and quiet." To Asia, accordingly, he retired with his wife Antistia and a\xa0few of his intimate friends. About the same date, Nero\'s passion for extravagance brought him some disrepute and danger: he had entered and swum in the sources of the stream which Quintus Marcius conveyed to Rome; and it was considered that by bathing there he had profaned the sacred waters and the holiness of the site. The divine anger was confirmed by a grave illness which followed. ^15.22.2 \xa0The proposal was greeted with loud assent: it proved impossible, however, to complete a decree, as the consuls declined to admit that there was a motion on the subject. Later, at the suggestion of the emperor, a rule was passed that no person should at a provincial diet propose the presentation in the senate of an address of thanks to a Caesarian or senatorial governor, and that no one should undertake the duties of such a deputation. In the same consulate, the Gymnasium was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, a statue of Nero, which it contained, being melted into a shapeless piece of bronze. An earthquake also demolished to a large extent the populous Campanian town of Pompeii; and the debt of nature was paid by the Vestal Virgin Laelia, whose place was filled by the appointment of Cornelia, from the family of the Cossi. <' "^15.22 \xa0The proposal was greeted with loud assent: it proved impossible, however, to complete a decree, as the consuls declined to admit that there was a motion on the subject. Later, at the suggestion of the emperor, a rule was passed that no person should at a provincial diet propose the presentation in the senate of an address of thanks to a Caesarian or senatorial governor, and that no one should undertake the duties of such a deputation. In the same consulate, the Gymnasium was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, a statue of Nero, which it contained, being melted into a shapeless piece of bronze. An earthquake also demolished to a large extent the populous Campanian town of Pompeii; and the debt of nature was paid by the Vestal Virgin Laelia, whose place was filled by the appointment of Cornelia, from the family of the Cossi. < ^16.13.2 \xa0Upon this year, disgraced by so many deeds of shame, Heaven also set its mark by tempest and disease. Campania was wasted by a whirlwind, which far and wide wrecked the farms, the fruit trees, and the crops, and carried its fury to the neighbourhood of the capital, where all classes of men were being decimated by a deadly epidemic. No outward sign of a distempered air was visible. Yet the houses were filled with lifeless bodies, the streets with funerals. Neither sex nor age gave immunity from danger; slaves and the free-born populace alike were summarily cut down, amid the laments of their wives and children, who, themselves infected while tending or mourning the victims, were often burnt upon the same pyre. Knights and senators, though they perished on all hands, were less deplored â\x80\x94 as if, by undergoing the common lot, they were cheating the ferocity of the emperor. In the same year, levies were held in Narbonese Gaul, Africa, and Asia, to recruit the legions of Illyricum, in which all men incapacitated by age or sickness were being discharged from the service. The emperor alleviated the disaster at Lugdunum by a grant of four million sesterces to repair the town's losses: the same amount which Lugdunum had previously offered in aid of the misfortunes of the capital. <"' None

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Campanian earthquake • earthquakes, Lisbon earthquake

Found in books: Sattler (2021), Ancient Ethics and the Natural World, 62; Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 217

7. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Anaxagoras, fire-theory of earthquakes • Aristotle, earthquake theory • Campanian earthquake • Campanian earthquake, apparently singular effects of • Campanian earthquake, date (62 or 63?) • Campanian earthquake, precursor of Vesuvian eruption of • disease, as a means of understanding earthquakes and volcanoes • earthquake • earthquakes • earthquakes, Lisbon earthquake • meteorology, earthquakes

Found in books: Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 124; Hankinson (1998), Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought, 23; Kazantzidis (2021), Lucretius on Disease: The Poetics of Morbidity in "De rerum natura", 102; Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 302; Sattler (2021), Ancient Ethics and the Natural World, 52, 55, 62; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 311; Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 213, 214, 217, 237, 238, 240, 241, 245, 248, 250, 251

8. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Nature, natural phenomena, earthquake • earthquakes

Found in books: Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 493; Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun (2014), The History of Religions School Today : Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts 216

9. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 17.7.11 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aristotle, earthquake theory • earthquakes, prodigial

Found in books: Davies (2004), Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their Gods, 256; Williams (2012), The Cosmic Viewpoint: A Study of Seneca's 'Natural Questions', 240

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17.7.11 Now earthquakes take place (as the theories state, and among them Aristotle Meteorologica, ii. 8. is perplexed and troubled) either in the tiny recesses of the earth, which in Greek we call σύριγγαι, Subterranean passages. under the excessive pressure of surging waters; or at any rate (as Anaxagoras asserts) through the force of the winds, which penetrate the innermost parts of the earth; for when these strike the solidly cemented walls and find no outlet, they violently shake those stretches of land under which they crept when swollen. Hence it is generally observed that during an earthquake not a breath of wind is felt where we are, But compare the procellae of § 3, above. because the winds are busied in the remotest recesses of the earth.'' None

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