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Demosthenes, Orations, 39.2


nanIf the defendant declared himself the son of another father and not of my own, I should naturally have seemed meddlesome in caring by what name he chose to call himself; but, as it is, he brought suit against my father, and having got up a gang of blackmailers This strong phrase occurs also in Dem. 40.9 . to support him—Mnesicles, whom you all probably know, and that Menecles who secured the conviction of Ninus, Ninus was a priestess who was put to death, as the scholiast on Dem. 19.281 tells us, for supplying love-potions to young men. The case seems to have been a notorious one, and reflected little credit on Menecles. and others of the same sort—he went into court, alleging that he was my father’s son by the daughter of Pamphilus, and that he was being outrageously treated, and robbed of his civic rights.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

6 results
1. Isaeus, Orations, 9.30 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2. Plato, Republic, 327b, 354a, 364a, 327a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

327a. I went down yesterday to the Peiraeus with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotions to the Goddess, and also because I wished to see how they would conduct the festival since this was its inauguration. I thought the procession of the citizens very fine, but it was no better than the show, made by the marching of the Thracian contingent.
3. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.281, 25.79-25.80, 39.3-39.4, 40.9-40.11 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Dinarchus, Or., 11 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)

5. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, On Dinarchus, 11 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

6. Josephus Flavius, Against Apion, 2.267-2.268 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

2.267. Nor need we at all wonder that they thus treated such considerable men, when they did not spare even women also; for they very lately slew a certain priestess, because she was accused by somebody that she initiated people into the worship of strange gods, it having been forbidden so to do by one of their laws; and a capital punishment had been decreed to such as introduced a strange god; 2.268. it being manifest, that they who make use of such a law do not believe those of other nations to be really gods, otherwise they had not envied themselves the advantage of more gods than they already had;


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
advocate Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69
asebeia ἀσέβεια Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
athens, athenian Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
athens Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
augustine Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
boeotus Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 385
boiotos Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 71
citizen/citizenship Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
classical period Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
cleobule (demosthenes mother) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 42
community, civic, religious Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 66
cult, cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
cults, mysteries Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 66
cults, thiasoi Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 66
dance, dancing, ecstatic, frenzied, maenadic, orgiastic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
demosthenes, on ninon Eidinow, Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks (2007) 254
demosthenes Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
diodotus (against diogeiton) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 42
diogeiton Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 42
dionysos, dionysos as foreign god Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
dionysos, dionysos xenos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
dionysos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
dokimasia Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
enthusiasm ἐνθουσιασμός, enthusiastic Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
euthyna Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
exōleia Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 42
families, aeschines Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 66
fear of divine Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 42
gods, men treated like Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 66
graphe, asebias Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 66
hetaira Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69
impiety Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
initiation, initiatory rites Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
josephus Eidinow, Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks (2007) 254
lakedaimonios sister Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
law courts Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
magic, magical Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
magistrate Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
mania μανία, maniacal Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
mantias Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 72
mantias of thoricus (against, boeotus) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 385
mantis Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
mantitheos Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 72
mantitheus (against boeotus) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 385
menekles Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 70, 71, 72
milyas (against aphobus iii) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 42
mountains Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
mysteries, mystery cults Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
nikomache Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69
ninos Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318; Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 70, 71, 72
oath-challenges Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 385
pamphilus (against boeotus) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 385
pentheus Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
pharmaka Eidinow, Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks (2007) 254
pharmakon Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
philochoros, on theoris Eidinow, Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks (2007) 254
philtre Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 71
philtron Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
phryne Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 71
plangon Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 70, 72
plangon (against boeotus) Sommerstein and Torrance, Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014) 42, 385
plato Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
poison Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 71
politics Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
priestess Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318; Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 70, 71, 72
priests, of mystery cults Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 66
religion Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
representative/representation (legal) Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69
rite, ritual Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
scrutiny Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 72
socrates Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318; Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
soul Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382
synegoria/synegoros Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69
thebes, theban Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
theoris Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
theoris of lemnos Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 382; Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 71
woman Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
worship' Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318