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Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database



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Juvenal, Satires, 3.58-3.66


nanThat race most acceptable now to our wealthy Romans, That race I principally wish to flee, I’ll swiftly reveal, And without embarrassment. My friends, I can’t stand A Rome full of Greeks, yet few of the dregs are Greek! For the Syrian Orontes has long since polluted the Tiber, Bringing its language and customs, pipes and harp-strings, And even their native timbrels are dragged along too, And the girls forced to offer themselves in the Circus. Go there, if your taste’s a barbarous whore in a painted veil. See, Romulus, those rustics of yours wearing Greek slippers, Greek ointments, Greek prize medallions round their necks. He’s from the heights of Sicyon, and he’s from Amydon, From Andros, Samos, they come, from Tralles or Alabanda, Seeking the Esquiline and the Viminal, named from its willows. To become both the innards and masters of our great houses. Quick witted, of shamelessly audacity, ready of speech, more Lip than Isaeus, the rhetorician. Just say what you want them To be. They’ll bring you, in one person, whatever you need: The teacher of languages, orator, painter, geometer, trainer, Augur, rope-dancer, physician, magician, they know it all, Your hungry Greeks: tell them to buzz off to heaven, they’ll go. That’s why it was no Moroccan, Sarmatian, or man from ThraceWho donned wings, but one Daedalus, born in the heart of Athens. Should I not flee these people in purple? Should I watch them sign Ahead of me, then, and recline to eat on a better couch than mine, Men propelled to Rome by the wind, with the plums and the figs? Is it nothing that in my childhood I breathed the Aventine air, Is it nothing that in my youth I was nurtured on Sabine olives? And aren’t they the people most adept at flattery, praising The illiterate speech of a friend, praising his ugly face, Likening a weak, scrawny neck to that of brave Hercules, When he lifted the massive Antaeus high above earth, And lost in their admiration for a voice as high-pitched As the cockerel when he pecks at his hen as they mate? We too can offer praise in just the same way: but they Are the ones believed. What comic actor’s better at playing Thais, the whore, or the wife, or Doris, the slave-girl, out Without her cloak? It’s as if a woman were speaking not Merely a mask: you’d think all was smooth and lacking Below the belly, and only split there by a slender crack. Yet our comic turn, Antiochus, would be no great wonder In Greece, Demetrius, Stratocles, or effeminate Haemus: They’re a nation of comics. Laugh, and they’ll be shaken With fits of laughter. They weep, without grief, if they see A friend in tears; if you pine for a little warmth in the winter They don a cloak; if you remark “it’s hot” they’ll start to sweat. So we’re unequal: they’ve a head start who always, day or night, Can adopt the expression they see on someone’s face, Who’re always ready to throw up their hands and cheer If their ‘friend’ belches deeply, or perhaps pisses straight, Or gives a fart when the golden bowl’s turned upside down. Besides, nothing’s sacred to them or safe from their cocks Not the lady of the house, or the virgin daughter, not Even her smooth-faced fiancé, or the unbroken son. Failing that, they’ll have the friend’s grandma on her back. They like to own the secrets of the house, and so be feared. And since I’m mentioning the Greeks, then let’s pass on From their gymnastics to a crime of a darker colour. Celer, The old Stoic turned informer, brought about Barea’s death, His friend and pupil; Celer, of Tarsus, raised by the Cydnus, Where a feather from Pegasus, the Gorgon’s child, landed. There’s no room here for the Romans; it’s some Greek; Protogenes, or Diphilus, or Hermachus who reigns here, Who never shares a friend, since that’s their race’s defect, But monopolises him alone. For once they’ve dripped a drop Of their country’s native poison in a ready ear, I’m driven From the threshold, and my long years of slavery are lost. Nowhere is the casting off of a client more casually done.
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Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.8 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.8. Caelius writes that Gaius Flaminius after ignoring the claims of religion fell at the battle of Trasimene, when a serious blow was inflicted on the state. The fate of these men may serve to indicate that our empire was won by those commanders who obeyed the dictates of religion. Moreover if we care to compare our national characteristics with those of foreign peoples, we shall find that, while in all other respects we are only the equals or even the inferiors of others, yet in the sense of religion, that is, in reverence for the gods, we are far superior.
2. Artemidorus, Oneirocritica, 2.3, 2.32 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3. Juvenal, Satires, 3.59-3.80, 3.84-3.85, 3.96-3.97, 3.109-3.125 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Martial, Epigrams, 8.61, 8.61.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5. Martial, Epigrams, 8.61, 8.61.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 10.25 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

10.25. Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no questionfor the sake of conscience
7. New Testament, 2 Corinthians, 11.24 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8. New Testament, Acts, 14.8-14.18, 17.1-17.6, 17.17-17.21, 18.4-18.8 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

14.8. At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. 14.9. He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole 14.10. said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" He leaped up and walked. 14.11. When the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the language of Lycaonia, "The gods have come down to us in the likeness of men! 14.12. They called Barnabas "Jupiter," and Paul "Mercury," because he was the chief speaker. 14.13. The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice with the multitudes. 14.14. But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out 14.15. Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them; 14.16. who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways. 14.17. Yet he didn't leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. 14.18. Even saying these things, they hardly stopped the multitudes from making a sacrifice to them. 17.1. Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 17.2. Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures 17.3. explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer, and to rise again from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ. 17.4. Some of them were persuaded, and joined Paul and Silas, of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and not a few of the chief women. 17.5. But the disobedient Jews gathered some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people. 17.6. When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also 17.17. So he reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him. 17.18. Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?"Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign demons," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. 17.19. They took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you? 17.20. For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean. 17.21. Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. 18.4. He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks. 18.5. But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. 18.6. When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles! 18.7. He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. 18.8. Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized.
9. New Testament, Philemon, 2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

10. New Testament, Romans, 16.23 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

16.23. Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.
11. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 11 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

12. Epigraphy, Cil, 13.1668



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aborigines Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
achaeans Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
alien/foreigner, roman attitudes toward Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
apologetic, portrait of paul Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
apuleius Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
arcadia/arcadians Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
armament, gladiatorial Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
artemidorus Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
athens Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
cato, m. porcius, the elder Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
christianity Tacoma, Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla (2016) 8
cinaedus Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
citizenship Clackson et al., Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (2020) 271
class status Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
corinth Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
customs/traditions/practices as identity markers, as differentiating peoples Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
dress, gladiatorial Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
dress, greek Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
dress, masculine Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
dress, public ceremonial Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
effeminacy Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
egyptians Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
ethnicity Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
etruscans/tyrrhenians Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
exile Tacoma, Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla (2016) 8
familia, gladiatorial Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
fathers-in-law Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
gauls/celts Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
gauls Tacoma, Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla (2016) 8
gender Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
gladiators Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
greeks Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
gymnasium Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
helmet Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
identity as hybrid and malleable, in roman perception Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
immigrants Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
italy Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
judaism Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
juvenal, street philosophers Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
juvenal Clackson et al., Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (2020) 271; Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
latins Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
macedon/macedonians Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
marriage Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
migration to rome Clackson et al., Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (2020) 271
mockery/irony/parody, by juvenal Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
natio Tacoma, Models from the Past in Roman Culture: A World of Exempla (2016) 8
nudity, athletic Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
nudity, gladiatorial Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
nudity Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
pelasgians Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
philosopher Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
portraits, principate Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
preaching Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
religion Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
retiarius Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
rhetorical context as shaping evidence Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
rome/romans, and citizenship Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
rome/romans, conglomerate character of Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
rome/romans, self-perception of Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
rome Clackson et al., Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (2020) 271
salvation Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
shield Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
slaves/slavery, and roman citizenship Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
sons Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
spain/spaniards/iberia/iberians Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
spectacle Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
synagogue Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
syria/syrians Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
teaching' Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 754
troy/trojans Gruen, Ethnicity in the Ancient World - Did it matter (2020) 89
undress Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
virtus Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130
wife, wives Edmondson, Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (2008) 130