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subject	book bibliographic info
distress/grief/mourning, defining and characterising, evagrius of pontus, on λύπη	Ayres Champion and Crawford (2023), The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity: Reshaping Classical Traditions. 530
grief	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 29, 30, 223, 224 Clarke, King, Baltussen (2023), Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering. 264, 265, 291 Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 65, 73, 74, 76, 166, 169, 199, 215, 220 Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 105, 233, 289 Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 56, 57 Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 97, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 226 Hachlili (2005), Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices And Rites In The Second Temple Period, 172, 399, 437, 459, 484, 485 Joosse (2021), Olympiodorus of Alexandria: Exegete, Teacher, Platonic Philosopher, 189, 191 Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 8, 173 Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2012), Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering, 3, 38, 118, 119, 133, 242 Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 193, 196, 201, 204, 205 Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 38, 127 Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 183, 184, 193, 203, 262, 270, 320 Merz and Tieleman (2012), Ambrosiaster's Political Theology, 159, 160, 173, 182, 193, 194, 198 Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 38, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147 Wilson (2010), Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 182, 222, 223, 259, 276, 277, 315, 395, 416 Wilson (2012), The Sentences of Sextus, 155, 216, 221, 264, 286, 323
grief, achthos	Clarke, King, Baltussen (2023), Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering. 288
grief, adam, of	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 262, 271, 305, 582, 937
grief, alleviated by prerehearsal	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 79
grief, analysis through lament	Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352
grief, and consolation, chrysippus, on	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 43, 79, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200
grief, and consolation, cicero, on	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 79, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200
grief, and consolation, seneca, on	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 100, 101, 238
grief, and fear of humanity	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 328, 329
grief, and mourning	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 133, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393
grief, and pleasure in lamentation, burials and mourning, excessive female	Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 93, 95, 96, 109, 110, 236, 247
grief, and veiling	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2012), Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering, 131
grief, and, stoics	Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 387
grief, as primary passion, epictetus, on	Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 387, 388, 392
grief, as well as pity and fear, aristotle, tragedy connotes	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 291, 292
grief, as well as pity and fear, tragedy, connotes	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 291, 292
grief, at the assassination of julius caesar, jews, their	Isaac (2004), The invention of racism in classical antiquity, 455
grief, augustine, now need, and cannot avoid, fear	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 398
grief, but do acknowledge loss, seneca, the younger, stoic, seneca's consolations do not express	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 165, 390, 394
grief, catharsis, catharsis of	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 291, 292
grief, christian management	Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 200, 203, 204, 206, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214
grief, communication, of	Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 260
grief, corinth	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 142, 143, 148, 149, 150, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
grief, creon, and	Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 69, 70, 72, 78, 79, 80, 81
grief, devil, formed from achamoth’s	Williams (2009), Williams, The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis: Book I: (Sects 1-46), 188
grief, dolor	Clarke, King, Baltussen (2023), Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering. 258
grief, emotions	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 16, 49, 108, 128, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 146, 156, 157, 184, 188, 189, 265, 317, 319, 330, 331, 341, 342, 346, 354, 369, 370, 371, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 437, 565, 604, 609, 656, 662, 667, 668, 669, 670, 671, 672, 675, 676, 677, 678, 689, 709, 714, 715, 732, 738, 739
grief, exile, migration	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 152, 153, 162, 165
grief, fading of	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 79
grief, fear, association with	Mermelstein (2021), Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation, 37
grief, for family members	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 178
grief, for friends	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 183, 185
grief, god, of	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 271, 942, 943
grief, hatred, and	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 223
grief, in lucan bellum civile	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 29
grief, joseph	Pomeroy (2021), Chrysostom as Exegete: Scholarly Traditions and Rhetorical Aims in the Homilies on Genesis, 138
grief, lamentation and	Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 29, 45, 70, 105, 109, 151, 174, 233, 239, 255, 284, 334
grief, letter	Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 904, 905
grief, love, and	Braund and Most (2004), Ancient Anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen, 223
grief, lupē	Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
grief, models for male, grief,	Alexiou and Cairns (2017), Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After. 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 327, 328, 331, 332, 333
grief, mourning	Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 169, 180, 213, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 253, 254
grief, mourning, cf.	Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 219
grief, of abimelech/ebed-melech	Allison (2018), 4 Baruch, 163, 237
grief, of abraham	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 103
grief, of adam	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 262, 271, 305, 582, 937 Pomeroy (2021), Chrysostom as Exegete: Scholarly Traditions and Rhetorical Aims in the Homilies on Genesis, 208
grief, of eve	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 63, 401, 1046
grief, of god	Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 271, 942, 943
grief, of jesus	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 106
grief, of judas	Scopello (2008), The Gospel of Judas in Context: Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Gospel of Judas, 80, 161
grief, of persephone, ancient	Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 68, 69, 115, 118, 122, 123, 127
grief, of shenoute, conflict/shenoutes vocation	Dilley (2019), Monasteries and the Care of Souls in Late Antique Christianity: Cognition and Discipline, 269
grief, of slaves	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 157, 158
grief, of women	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166
grief, over death of daughter, cicero	Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 65, 66
grief, overwhelming	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 61, 198
grief, physical sensation of	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 227
grief, pity, connection to	Mermelstein (2021), Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation, 140, 141, 142
grief, plato, including fearful emotions of pity and	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 291, 292
grief, pleasurable, distress	Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 80
grief, power and	Mermelstein (2021), Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation, 37, 126, 127, 128, 129, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 252
grief, private sphere/privacy, and	Fertik (2019), The Ruler's House: Contesting Power and Privacy in Julio-Claudian Rome, 60, 61
grief, public	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 142, 143, 176, 177
grief, relationship to fear	Mermelstein (2021), Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation, 37
grief, relationship to pity	Mermelstein (2021), Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation, 140, 141, 142
grief, slaves, slavery	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 157, 158
grief, tendency toward	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 142
grief, time, fading of	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 79
grief, weeping griffiths, paul	Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 236
grief, women	Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166
grief/sadness, lupê/lupêma, as	Kazantzidis and Spatharas (2012), Medical Understandings of Emotions in Antiquity: Theory, Practice, Suffering, 133, 258

List of validated texts:

24 validated results for "grief"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 2.7, 3.17, 23.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Adam, Grief of • Emotions, Grief • God, Grief of • Grief, Adam, of • Grief, God, of • grief • grief and mourning

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 386, 390, 392; Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 74, 76; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 305, 943; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 341

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2.7 וַיִּיצֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאָדָם עָפָר מִן־הָאֲדָמָה וַיִּפַּח בְּאַפָּיו נִשְׁמַת חַיִּים וַיְהִי הָאָדָם לְנֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה׃ ^3.17 וּלְאָדָם אָמַר כִּי־שָׁמַעְתָּ לְקוֹל אִשְׁתֶּךָ וַתֹּאכַל מִן־הָעֵץ אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִיךָ לֵאמֹר לֹא תֹאכַל מִמֶּנּוּ אֲרוּרָה הָאֲדָמָה בַּעֲבוּרֶךָ בְּעִצָּבוֹן תֹּאכֲלֶנָּה כֹּל יְמֵי חַיֶּיךָ׃ ^23.2 וַיָּקָם הַשָּׂדֶה וְהַמְּעָרָה אֲשֶׁר־בּוֹ לְאַבְרָהָם לַאֲחֻזַּת־קָבֶר מֵאֵת בְּנֵי־חֵת׃ ^23.2 וַתָּמָת שָׂרָה בְּקִרְיַת אַרְבַּע הִוא חֶבְרוֹן בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנָעַן וַיָּבֹא אַבְרָהָם לִסְפֹּד לְשָׂרָה וְלִבְכֹּתָהּ׃'' None

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2.7 Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. ^3.17 And unto Adam He said: ‘Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. ^23.2 And Sarah died in Kiriatharba—the same is Hebron—in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.'' None

2. Hebrew Bible, Jonah, 4.9 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Emotions, Grief • grief

Found in books: Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 73; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 341

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4.9 וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים אֶל־יוֹנָה הַהֵיטֵב חָרָה־לְךָ עַל־הַקִּיקָיוֹן וַיֹּאמֶר הֵיטֵב חָרָה־לִי עַד־מָוֶת׃'' None

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4.9 And God said to Jonah: ‘Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?’ And he said: ‘I am greatly angry, even unto death.’'' None

3. Homer, Iliad, 3.156-3.157, 18.22, 18.24, 18.31, 18.110 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Distress, Grief pleasurable • Emotions, Grief • Eve, Grief of • grief • lamentation and grief

Found in books: Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 1046; Maciver (2012), Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, 123; Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 334; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 80; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 49, 136, 145

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3.156 οὐ νέμεσις Τρῶας καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδας Ἀχαιοὺς ^3.157 τοιῇδʼ ἀμφὶ γυναικὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα πάσχειν· ^18.24 χεύατο κὰκ κεφαλῆς, χαρίεν δʼ ᾔσχυνε πρόσωπον· ^18.110 ἀνδρῶν ἐν στήθεσσιν ἀέξεται ἠΰτε καπνός·' ' None

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3.156 oftly they spake winged words one to another:Small blame that Trojans and well-greaved Achaeans should for such a woman long time suffer woes; wondrously like is she to the immortal goddesses to look upon. But even so, for all that she is such an one, let her depart upon the ships, ^18.24 Low lies Patroclus, and around his corpse are they fighting—his naked corpse; but his armour is held by Hector of the flashing helm. So spake he, and a black cloud of grief enwrapped Achilles, and with both his hands he took the dark dust ^18.110 waxeth like smoke in the breasts of men; even as but now the king of men, Agamemnon, moved me to wrath. Howbeit these things will we let be as past and done, for all our pain, curbing the heart in our breasts, because we must. But now will I go forth that I may light on the slayer of the man I loved, ' ' None

4. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Emotions, Grief • grief

Found in books: Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 205; Maciver (2012), Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, 150, 151, 165; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 135, 136

5. Euripides, Trojan Women, 108 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Emotions, Grief • grief, physical sensation of

Found in books: Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 227; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 331

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108 ὦ πολὺς ὄγκος συστελλόμενος'' None

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108 Ah me! ah me! What else but tears is now my hapless lot, whose country, children, husband, all are lost? Ah! the high-blown pride of ancestors, humbled! how brought to nothing after all!'' None

6. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • grief (lupē) • grief, mourning • mourning, grief

Found in books: Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 94; Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 241

7. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • grief • grief, mourning • mourning, grief

Found in books: Merz and Tieleman (2012), Ambrosiaster's Political Theology, 194; Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 240, 241

8. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Chrysippus, on grief and consolation • Cicero, grief over death of daughter • Cicero, on grief and consolation • Creon, and grief • Seneca, the Younger, Stoic, Seneca's consolations do not express grief, but do acknowledge loss • Stoics, grief and • grief • grief (lupē) • grief and mourning • grief, • grief, mourning • grief, physical sensation of • grief, weeping Griffiths, Paul • mourning, grief

Found in books: Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 78; Atkins (2021), The Cambridge Companion to Cicero's Philosophy 157, 159, 162, 163, 263; Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 387, 389; Duffalo (2006), The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate. 65; Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 43, 196, 197, 227, 236; Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 94; Merz and Tieleman (2012), Ambrosiaster's Political Theology, 193, 198; Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 240; Sorabji (2000), Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation, 165

9. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Eve, Grief of • grief

Found in books: Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 166, 169; Levison (2023), The Greek Life of Adam and Eve. 1046

10. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 5.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Emotions, Grief • transformations, grief and

Found in books: Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 68; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667

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5.4 1. \xa0Like the two goddesses whom we have mentioned CorÃª, we are told, received as her portion the meadows round about Enna; but a great fountain was made sacred to her in the territory of Syracuse and given the name CyanÃª or "Azure Fount.",2. \xa0For the myth relates that it was near Syracuse that Pluton effected the Rape of CorÃª and took her away in his chariot, and that after cleaving the earth asunder he himself descended into Hades, taking along with him the bride whom he had seized, and that he caused the fountain named CyanÃª to gush forth, near which the Syracusans each year hold a notable festive gathering; and private individuals offer the lesser victims, but when the ceremony is on behalf of the community, bulls are plunged in the pool, this manner of sacrifice having been commanded by Heracles on the occasion when he made the circuit of all Sicily, while driving off the cattle of Geryones.,3. \xa0After the Rape of CorÃª, the myth does on to recount, Demeter, being unable to find her daughter, kindled torches in the craters of Mt.\xa0Aetna and visited many parts of the inhabited world, and upon the men who received her with the greatest favour she conferred briefs, rewarding them with the gift of the fruit of the wheat.,4. \xa0And since a more kindly welcome was extended the goddess by the Athenians than by any other people, they were the first after the Siceliotae to be given the fruit of the wheat; and in return for this gift the citizens of that city in assembly honoured the goddess above all others with the establishment both of most notable sacrifices and of the mysteries of Eleusis, which, by reason of their very great antiquity and sanctity, have come to be famous among all mankind. From the Athenians many peoples received a portion of the gracious gift of the corn, and they in turn, sharing the gift of the seed with their neighbours, in this way caused all the inhabited world to abound with it.,5. \xa0And the inhabitants of Sicily, since by reason of the intimate relationship of Demeter and CorÃª with them they were the first to share in the corn after its discovery, instituted to each one of the goddesses sacrifices and festive gatherings, which they named after them, and by the time chosen for these made acknowledgement of the gifts which had been conferred upon them.,6. \xa0In the case of CorÃª, for instance, they established the celebration of her return at about the time when the fruit of the corn was found to come to maturity, and they celebrate this sacrifice and festive gathering with such strictness of observance and such zeal as we should reasonably expect those men to show who are returning thanks for having been selected before all mankind for the greatest possible gift;,7. \xa0but in the case of Demeter they preferred that time for the sacrifice when the sowing of the corn is first begun, and for a period of ten days they hold a festive gathering which bears the name of this goddess and is most magnificent by reason of the brilliance of their preparation for it, while in the observance of it they imitate the ancient manner of life. And it is their custom during these days to indulge in coarse language as they associate one with another, the reason being that by such coarseness the goddess, grieved though she was at the Rape of CorÃª, burst into laughter.'' None

11. Philo of Alexandria, On Curses, 31 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • grief, • humanity, grief and fear of

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 328; Wilson (2010), Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 416

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31 And this, too, I do through the pity which exists in rational nature, in order that it may be raised from the hell of the passions to the heavenly region of virtue; I being the guide, who also have made the road which leads to heaven, so that it may be a plain road for suppliant souls, and have shown it to them all, in order that they may not foolishly wander out of the way. X. '' None

12. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Emotions, Grief • transformations, grief and

Found in books: Johnson (2008), Ovid before Exile: Art and Punishment in the Metamorphoses, 68; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667

13. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Seneca, on grief and consolation • humanity, grief and fear of

Found in books: Birnbaum and Dillon (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Life of Abraham: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 328; Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 238

14. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 9.19-9.27, 15.29 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Corinth, grief • Grief • grief • grief (lupē) • grief, exile, migration • grief, of women • women, grief

Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 82; Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 63; Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 270; Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 152, 164, 171, 173

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9.19 Ἐλεύθερος γὰρ ὢν ἐκ πάντων πᾶσιν ἐμαυτὸν ἐδούλωσα, ἵνα τοὺς πλείονας κερδήσω· ^9.20 καὶ ἐγενόμην τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ὡς Ἰουδαῖος, ἵνα Ἰουδαίους κερδήσω· τοῖς ὑπὸ νόμον ὡς ὑπὸ νόμον, μὴ ὢν αὐτὸς ὑπὸ νόμον, ἵνα τοὺς ὑπὸ νόμον κερδήσω· ^9.21 τοῖς ἀνόμοις ὡς ἄνομος, μὴ ὢν ἄνομος θεοῦ ἀλλʼ ἔννομος Χριστοῦ, ἵνα κερδανῶ τοὺς ἀνόμους· ^9.22 ἐγενόμην τοῖς ἀσθενέσιν ἀσθενής, ἵνα τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς κερδήσω· τοῖς πᾶσιν γέγονα πάντα, ἵνα πάντως τινὰς σώσω. ^9.23 πάντα δὲ ποιῶ διὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, ἵνα συνκοινωνὸς αὐτοῦ γένωμαι. ^9.24 Οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι οἱ ἐν σταδίῳ τρέχοντες πάντες μὲν τρέχουσιν, εἷς δὲ λαμβάνει τὸ βραβεῖον; οὕτως τρέχετε ἵνα καταλάβητε. ^9.25 πᾶς δὲ ὁ ἀγωνιζόμενος πάντα ἐγκρατεύεται, ἐκεῖνοι μὲν οὖν ἵνα φθαρτὸν στέφανον λάβωσιν, ἡμεῖς δὲ ἄφθαρτον. ^9.26 ἐγὼ τοίνυν οὕτως τρέχω ὡς οὐκ ἀδήλως, οὕτως πυκτεύω ὡς οὐκ ἀέρα δέρων· ^9.27 ἀλλὰ ὑπωπιάζω μου τὸ σῶμα καὶ δουλαγωγῶ, μή πως ἄλλοις κηρύξας αὐτὸς ἀδόκιμος γένωμαι. ^15.29 Ἐπεὶ τί ποιήσουσιν οἱ βαπτιζόμενοι ὑπὲρ τῶν νεκρῶν; εἰ ὅλως νεκροὶ οὐκ ἐγείρονται, τί καὶ βαπτίζονται ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν;'' None

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9.19 For though I was free fromall, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. ^9.20 To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to thosewho are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those whoare under the law; ^9.21 to those who are without law, as without law(not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that Imight win those who are without law. ^9.22 To the weak I became asweak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men,that I may by all means save some.' "^9.23 Now I do this for thegospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker of it." "^9.24 Don't youknow that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize?Run like that, that you may win." '^9.25 Every man who strives in thegames exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive acorruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. ^9.26 I therefore run likethat, as not uncertainly. I fight like that, as not beating the air, ^9.27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by anymeans, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.' "^15.29 Or else what will they do whoare baptized for the dead? If the dead aren't raised at all, why thenare they baptized for the dead?"' None

15. New Testament, 1 Thessalonians, 4.13-4.17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Corinth, grief • grief • grief, Corinth • grief, public

Found in books: Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 183, 184, 320; Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 142, 174

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4.13 Οὐ θέλομεν δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοί, περὶ τῶν κοιμωμένων, ἵνα μὴ λυπῆσθε καθὼς καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ οἱ μὴ ἔχοντες ἐλπίδα. ^4.14 εἰ γὰρ πιστεύομεν ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἀπέθανεν καὶ ἀνέστη, οὕτως καὶ ὁ θεὸς τοὺς κοιμηθέντας διὰ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἄξει σὺν αὐτῷ. ^4.15 Τοῦτο γὰρ ὑμῖν λέγομεν ἐν λόγῳ κυρίου, ὅτι ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες οἱ περιλειπόμενοι εἰς τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ κυρίου οὐ μὴ φθάσωμεν τοὺς κοιμηθέντας· ^4.16 ὅτι αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος ἐν κελεύσματι, ἐν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου καὶ ἐν σάλπιγγι θεοῦ, καταβήσεται ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναστήσονται πρῶτον, ^4.17 ἔπειτα ἡμεῖς οἱ ζῶντες οἱ περιλειπόμενοι ἅμα σὺν αὐτοῖς ἁρπαγησόμεθα ἐν νεφέλαις εἰς ἀπάντησιν τοῦ κυρίου εἰς ἀέρα· καὶ οὕτως πάντοτε σὺν κυρίῳ ἐσόμεθα.'' None

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4.13 But we don't want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don't grieve like the rest, who have no hope. " '^4.14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. ^4.15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. ' "^4.16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God's trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, " '^4.17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. '" None

16. New Testament, Romans, 7.15, 7.19, 9.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Grief • grief (lupē) • grief, of women • women, grief

Found in books: Gray (2021), Gregory of Nyssa as Biographer: Weaving Lives for Virtuous Readers, 82; Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 72, 73, 90, 95, 97, 98; Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 164

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7.15 ὃ γὰρ κατεργάζομαι οὐ γινώσκω· οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω τοῦτο πράσσω, ἀλλʼ ὃ μισῶ τοῦτο ποιῶ. ^7.19 οὐ γὰρ ὃ θέλω ποιῶ ἀγαθόν, ἀλλὰ ὃ οὐ θέλω κακὸν τοῦτο πράσσω. ^9.16 ἄρα οὖν οὐ τοῦ θέλοντος οὐδὲ τοῦ τρέχοντος, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ἐλεῶντος θεοῦ.'' None

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7.15 For I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do. " "^7.19 For the good which I desire, I don't do; but the evil which I don't desire, that I practice. " ^9.16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy. '" None

17. New Testament, Matthew, 26.38 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • grief • grief, of Jesus

Found in books: Corley (2002), Ben Sira's Teaching on Friendship, 73; Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 106

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26.38 τότε λέγει αὐτοῖς Περίλυπός ἐστιν ἡ ψυχή μου ἕως θανάτου· μείνατε ὧδε καὶ γρηγορεῖτε μετʼ ἐμοῦ.'' None

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26.38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."'' None

18. Plutarch, Solon, 21.4-21.5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Emotions, Grief • grief • lamentation and grief

Found in books: Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 105; Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 174; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 376

sup>21.5 ἐναγίζειν δὲ βοῦν οὐκ εἴασεν, οὐδὲ συντιθέναι πλέον ἱματίων τριῶν, οὐδʼ ἐπʼ ἀλλότρια μνήματα βαδίζειν χωρὶς ἐκκομιδῆς. ὧν τὰ πλεῖστα καὶ τοῖς ἡμετέροις νόμοις ἀπηγόρευται· πρόσκειται δὲ τοῖς ἡμετέροις ζημιοῦσθαι τοὺς τὰ τοιαῦτα ποιοῦντας ὑπὸ τῶν γυναικονόμων, ὡς ἀνάνδροις καὶ γυναικώδεσι τοῖς περὶ τὰ πένθη πάθεσι καὶ ἁμαρτήμασιν ἐνεχομένους.' ' None

sup>21.5 The sacrifice of an ox at the grave was not permitted, nor the burial with the dead of more than three changes of raiment, nor the visiting of other tombs than those of their own family, except at the time of interment. Most of these practices are also forbidden by our laws, but ours contain the additional proviso that such offenders shall be punished by the board of censors for women, because they indulge in unmanly and effeminate extravagances of sorrow when they mourn' ' None

19. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 99.16 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Creon, and grief • grief • grief (lupē) • grief, mourning • mourning, grief

Found in books: Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 72; Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 91; Merz and Tieleman (2012), Ambrosiaster's Political Theology, 194; Poulsen (2021), Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography, 239, 240, 241, 253, 254

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99.16 What, then, shall we do? Let us allow them to fall, but let us not command them do so; let us weep according as emotion floods our eyes, but not as much as mere imitation shall demand. Let us, indeed, add nothing to natural grief, nor augment it by following the example of others. The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself: how few men are sad in their own company! They lament the louder for being heard; persons who are reserved and silent when alone are stirred to new paroxysms of tears when they behold others near them! At such times they lay violent hands upon their own persons, – though they might have done this more easily if no one were present to check them; at such times they pray for death; at such times they toss themselves from their couches. But their grief slackens with the departure of onlookers. ' ' None

20. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Corinth, grief • grief (lupē) • grief, Corinth • grief, exile, migration • grief, of slaves • grief, public • letter, grief • slaves, slavery, grief

Found in books: Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 64, 74, 75, 76, 77, 80; Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 904; Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 142, 152, 157, 174

21. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.3.11 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • grief (lupē) • grief, of women • women, grief

Found in books: Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 61, 62; Nasrallah (2019), Archaeology and the Letters of Paul, 166

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2.3.11 βασιλεύειν μὲν δὴ διʼ αὐτὴν Ἰάσονα ἐν Κορίνθῳ, Μηδείᾳ δὲ παῖδας μὲν γίνεσθαι, τὸ δὲ ἀεὶ τικτόμενον κατακρύπτειν αὐτὸ ἐς τὸ ἱερὸν φέρουσαν τῆς Ἥρας, κατακρύπτειν δὲ ἀθανάτους ἔσεσθαι νομίζουσαν· τέλος δὲ αὐτήν τε μαθεῖν ὡς ἡμαρτήκοι τῆς ἐλπίδος καὶ ἅμα ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἰάσονος φωραθεῖσαν—οὐ γὰρ αὐτὸν ἔχειν δεομένῃ συγγνώμην, ἀποπλέοντα δὲ ἐς Ἰωλκὸν οἴχεσθαι—, τούτων δὲ ἕνεκα ἀπελθεῖν καὶ Μήδειαν παραδοῦσαν Σισύφῳ τὴν ἀρχήν.'' None

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2.3.11 Through her Jason was king in Corinth, and Medea, as her children were born, carried each to the sanctuary of Hera and concealed them, doing so in the belief that so they would be immortal. At last she learned that her hopes were vain, and at the same time she was detected by Jason. When she begged for pardon he refused it, and sailed away to Iolcus. For these reasons Medea too departed, and handed over the kingdom to Sisyphus. '' None

22. Vergil, Georgics, 4.507-4.509
Tagged with subjects: • burials and mourning, excessive female grief and pleasure in lamentation • grief

Found in books: Panoussi(2019), Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature, 93; Thorsen et al. (2021), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection, 56

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4.507 Septem illum totos perhibent ex ordine menses ^4.508 rupe sub aeria deserti ad Strymonis undam ^4.509 flesse sibi et gelidis haec evolvisse sub antris'' None

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4.507 And grant a prosperous end. For save by force ^4.508 No rede will he vouchsafe, nor shalt thou bend ^4.509 His soul by praying; whom once made captive, ply'' None

23. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • grief (lupē) • grief, physical sensation of

Found in books: Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 227; Gunderson (2022), The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians: Essays in Honor of L. Michael White, 93

24. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • grief

Found in books: Chaniotis (2012), Unveiling Emotions: Sources and Methods for the Study of Emotions in the Greek World vol, 112; Chaniotis (2021), Unveiling Emotions III: Arousal, Display, and Performance of Emotions in the Greek World, 19

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