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Demosthenes, Orations, 40.9

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however, he was not so wholly the slave of his passion as to deem it right even after my mother’s death to receive the woman into his own house, or to admit that the defendants were his children. No, for all the rest of the time they lived as not being sons of my father, as most of you know; but after Boeotus had grown up and had associated with himself a gang of blackmailers, On this whole passage compare the preceding oration, Dem. 39.2 . whose leaders were Mnesicles and that Menecles who secured the conviction of Ninus, in connection with these men he brought suit against my father, claiming that he was his son.

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1. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 430-432, 429 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

429. ἀλλʼ ὅρκον οὐ δέξαιτʼ ἄν, οὐ δοῦναι θέλοι. Ἀθηνᾶ

429. But he will not receive an oath nor does he want to give one. Athena

2. Isaeus, Orations, 7.9 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Isocrates, Orations, 19.5 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. 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.

5. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.281, 25.79-25.80, 33.13-33.14, 39.2-39.4, 40.10-40.11, 54.25 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

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

7. 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
areopagus	Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 288
arguments, religious, religious significance of	Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 288
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
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
cult, cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
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
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
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
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
menekles	Kapparis, Women in the Law Courts of Classical Athens (2021) 69, 70, 71, 72
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 challenge	Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (2012) 53
pentheus	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 318
perjury, allegation of	Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 288
perjury, supernatural punishment for	Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (2012) 53
perjury	Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (2012) 53
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
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, unclear significance	Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 288
religion, lending seriousness	Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 288
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
temple, temple-robbery	Martin, Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes (2009) 288
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