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expert Libson (2018) 132, 133, 134, 135, 145
expert, abraham, astrologer, astronomy Potter Suh and Holladay (2021) 90, 126, 127
expert, guide, raphael Toloni (2022) 20, 54, 56, 75, 98, 148
expert, homer, as technical Kneebone (2020) 33, 37, 38, 39, 257, 258, 259, 270, 382, 383, 384, 385
expert, priests Lupu(2005) 47
expert, ritual Stavrianopoulou (2006) 267, 280
experts Libson (2018) 70, 131, 132, 133, 136, 144, 145, 151
experts, alexandria, home of religious Davies (2004) 249
experts, dreams, in ancient near east, received by priests and ritual Renberg (2017) 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 744
experts, legal Czajkowski et al (2020) 3, 8, 9, 26, 138, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 178, 179, 224, 346, 356, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 422, 427, 428, 463, 475, 477
experts, military Stavrianopoulou (2006) 143
experts, on, daimons, rabbis as Janowitz (2002b) 107
experts, rabbis, as daimon Janowitz (2002b) 107
experts, rabbis, as provincial legal Hayes (2022) 42
experts, religious Stavrianopoulou (2006) 75, 136, 143, 146, 153
experts, religious authority, exegetes Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 14, 268, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305
experts/magicians, ritual Bortolani et al (2019) 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18, 19, 32, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 48, 67, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 102, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 122, 125, 128, 134, 138, 141, 145, 152, 172, 173, 174, 198, 199, 200, 202, 206, 209, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 223, 225, 229, 231, 232, 233, 235, 236, 242, 244, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 254, 261, 264, 280, 286, 290, 291, 296
expert”, didymus, “musical Motta and Petrucci (2022) 190, 191, 194
“expert, in herbs and pharmakis, gr. drugs” Zawanowska and Wilk (2022) 368

List of validated texts:
4 validated results for "expert"
1. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • authority, of the experts • experts, expertise, Derveni author as expert • ritual experts/magicians • wisdom (expertise) • wisdom (expertise), wisdom contests

 Found in books: Bortolani et al (2019) 254; Álvarez (2019) 83


2. Herodotus, Histories, 7.141-7.143 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Military experts • Religious experts • authority, of the experts • experts, expertise, Derveni author as expert • religious authority, experts (exegetes) • wisdom (expertise) • wisdom (expertise), wisdom contests

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 299; Stavrianopoulou (2006) 143; Álvarez (2019) 83


7.141. ταῦτα ἀκούσαντες οἱ τῶν Ἀθηναίων θεοπρόποι συμφορῇ τῇ μεγίστῃ ἐχρέωντο. προβάλλουσι δὲ σφέας αὐτοὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ κακοῦ τοῦ κεχρησμένου, Τίμων ὁ Ἀνδροβούλου, τῶν Δελφῶν ἀνὴρ δόκιμος ὅμοια τῷ μάλιστα, συνεβούλευέ σφι ἱκετηρίην λαβοῦσι δεύτερα αὖτις ἐλθόντας χρᾶσθαι τῷ χρηστηρίῳ ὡς ἱκέτας. πειθομένοισι δὲ ταῦτα τοῖσι Ἀθηναίοισι καὶ λέγουσι “ὦναξ, χρῆσον ἡμῖν ἄμεινόν τι περὶ τῆς πατρίδος, αἰδεσθεὶς τὰς ἱκετηρίας τάσδε τάς τοι ἥκομεν φέροντες, ἢ οὔ τοι ἄπιμεν ἐκ τοῦ ἀδύτου, ἀλλʼ αὐτοῦ τῇδε μενέομεν ἔστʼ ἂν καὶ τελευτήσωμεν,” ταῦτα δὲ λέγουσι ἡ πρόμαντις χρᾷ δεύτερα τάδε. οὐ δύναται Παλλὰς Δίʼ Ὀλύμπιον ἐξιλάσασθαι λισσομένη πολλοῖσι λόγοις καὶ μήτιδι πυκνῇ. σοὶ δὲ τόδʼ αὖτις ἔπος ἐρέω ἀδάμαντι πελάσσας. τῶν ἄλλων γὰρ ἁλισκομένων ὅσα Κέκροπος οὖρος ἐντὸς ἔχει κευθμών τε Κιθαιρῶνος ζαθέοιο, τεῖχος Τριτογενεῖ ξύλινον διδοῖ εὐρύοπα Ζεύς μοῦνον ἀπόρθητον τελέθειν, τὸ σὲ τέκνα τʼ ὀνήσει. μηδὲ σύ γʼ ἱπποσύνην τε μένειν καὶ πεζὸν ἰόντα πολλὸν ἀπʼ ἠπείρου στρατὸν ἥσυχος, ἀλλʼ ὑποχωρεῖν νῶτον ἐπιστρέψας· ἔτι τοι ποτε κἀντίος ἔσσῃ. ὦ θείη Σαλαμίς, ἀπολεῖς δὲ σὺ τέκνα γυναικῶν ἤ που σκιδναμένης Δημήτερος ἢ συνιούσης. 7.142. ταῦτα σφι ἠπιώτερα γὰρ τῶν προτέρων καὶ ἦν καὶ ἐδόκεε εἶναι, συγγραψάμενοι ἀπαλλάσσοντο ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας. ὡς δὲ ἀπελθόντες οἱ θεοπρόποι ἀπήγγελλον ἐς τὸν δῆμον, γνῶμαι καὶ ἄλλαι πολλαὶ γίνονται διζημένων τὸ μαντήιον καὶ αἵδε συνεστηκυῖαι μάλιστα. τῶν πρεσβυτέρων ἔλεγον μετεξέτεροι δοκέειν σφίσι τὸν θεὸν τὴν ἀκρόπολιν χρῆσαι περιέσεσθαι. ἡ γὰρ ἀκρόπολις τὸ πάλαι τῶν Ἀθηναίων ῥηχῷ ἐπέφρακτο. οἳ μὲν δὴ κατὰ τὸν φραγμὸν συνεβάλλοντο τοῦτο τὸ ξύλινον τεῖχος εἶναι, οἳ δʼ αὖ ἔλεγον τὰς νέας σημαίνειν τὸν θεόν, καὶ ταύτας παραρτέεσθαι ἐκέλευον τὰ ἄλλα ἀπέντας. τοὺς ὦν δὴ τὰς νέας λέγοντας εἶναι τὸ ξύλινον τεῖχος ἔσφαλλε τὰ δύο τὰ τελευταῖα ῥηθέντα ὑπὸ τῆς Πυθίης, ὦ θείη Σαλαμίς, ἀπολεῖς δὲ σὺ τέκνα γυναικῶν ἤ που σκιδναμένης Δημήτερος ἢ συνιούσης. κατὰ ταῦτα τὰ ἔπεα συνεχέοντο αἱ γνῶμαι τῶν φαμένων τὰς νέας τὸ ξύλινον τεῖχος εἶναι· οἱ γὰρ χρησμολόγοι ταύτῃ ταῦτα ἐλάμβανον, ὡς ἀμφὶ Σαλαμῖνα δεῖ σφεας ἑσσωθῆναι ναυμαχίην παρασκευασαμένους. 7.143. ἦν δὲ τῶν τις Ἀθηναίων ἀνὴρ ἐς πρώτους νεωστὶ παριών, τῷ οὔνομα μὲν ἦν Θεμιστοκλέης, παῖς δὲ Νεοκλέος ἐκαλέετο. οὗτος ὡνὴρ οὐκ ἔφη πᾶν ὀρθῶς τοὺς χρησμολόγους συμβάλλεσθαι, λέγων τοιάδε· εἰ ἐς Ἀθηναίους εἶχε τὸ ἔπος εἰρημένον ἐόντως, οὐκ ἂν οὕτω μιν δοκέειν ἠπίως χρησθῆναι, ἀλλὰ ὧδε “ὦ σχετλίη Σαλαμίσ” ἀντὶ τοῦ “ὦ θείη Σαλαμίς,” εἴ πέρ γε ἔμελλον οἱ οἰκήτορες ἀμφʼ αὐτῇ τελευτήσειν· ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐς τοὺς πολεμίους τῷ θεῷ εἰρῆσθαι τὸ χρηστήριον συλλαμβάνοντι κατὰ τὸ ὀρθόν, ἀλλʼ οὐκ ἐς Ἀθηναίους· παρασκευάζεσθαι ὦν αὐτοὺς ὡς ναυμαχήσοντας συνεβούλευε, ὡς τούτου ἐόντος τοῦ ξυλίνου τείχεος. ταύτῃ Θεμιστοκλέος ἀποφαινομένου Ἀθηναῖοι ταῦτα σφίσι ἔγνωσαν αἱρετώτερα εἶναι μᾶλλον ἢ τὰ τῶν χρησμολόγων, οἳ οὐκ ἔων ναυμαχίην ἀρτέεσθαι, τὸ δὲ σύμπαν εἰπεῖν οὐδὲ χεῖρας ἀνταείρεσθαι, ἀλλὰ ἐκλιπόντας χώρην τὴν Ἀττικὴν ἄλλην τινὰ οἰκίζειν.''. None
7.141. When the Athenian messengers heard that, they were very greatly dismayed, and gave themselves up for lost by reason of the evil foretold. Then Timon son of Androbulus, as notable a man as any Delphian, advised them to take boughs of supplication and in the guise of suppliants, approach the oracle a second time. ,The Athenians did exactly this; “Lord,” they said, “regard mercifully these suppliant boughs which we bring to you, and give us some better answer concerning our country. Otherwise we will not depart from your temple, but remain here until we die.” Thereupon the priestess gave them this second oracle: ,
3. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 15.54.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • expertise • religious authority, experts (exegetes)

 Found in books: Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 218; Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 305


15.54.2. \xa0Certain local oracle-mongers likewise came up to Epameinondas, saying that the Lacedaemonians were destined to meet with a great disaster by the tomb of the daughters of Leuctrus and Scedasus for the following reasons.''. None
4. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • architect, expertise of • art expert, in Petronius’ Satyrica • expert empiricism, role in connoisseurship

 Found in books: Elsner (2007) 192; Oksanish (2019) 91





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.