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subject	book bibliographic info
hermaphrodite	Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 90, 91, 142, 151, 272 Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 182, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 204, 205, 206, 216, 217, 221, 222, 226 Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 277, 278, 279, 282 Pachoumi (2017), The Concepts of the Divine in the Greek Magical Papyri, 96, 100, 168, 173 Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 182 Veltri (2006), Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts: The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions. 113, 145
hermaphrodite/hermaphroditus	Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 72, 133, 134, 135, 151, 152
hermaphrodites	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 159, 165, 170 Fletcher (2023), The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature, 26 Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 131, 166, 167
hermaphroditism	Veltri (2006), Libraries, Translations, and 'Canonic' Texts: The Septuagint, Aquila and Ben Sira in the Jewish and Christian Traditions. 114 de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 356

List of validated texts:

6 validated results for "hermaphrodite"

1. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.6.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hermaphrodite/Hermaphroditus • hermaphrodite

Found in books: Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 189; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 134

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4.6.5 \xa0A\xa0birth like that of Priapus is ascribed by some writers of myths to Hermaphroditus, as he has been called, who was born of Hermes and AphroditÃª and received a name which is a combination of those of both his parents. Some say that this Hermaphroditus is a god and appears at certain times among men, and that he is born with a physical body which is a combination of that of a man and that of a woman, in that he has a body which is beautiful and delicate like that of a woman, but has the masculine quality and vigour of a man. But there are some who declare that such creatures of two sexes are monstrosities, and coming rarely into the world as they do have the quality of presaging the future, sometimes for evil and sometimes for good. But let this be enough for us on such matters.'' None

2. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.381, 4.386, 12.506 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hermaphrodite/Hermaphroditus • hermaphrodite • hermaphrodites

Found in books: Fletcher (2023), The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature, 26; Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 189; Miller and Clay (2019), Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury, 135

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4.381 semimarem fecisse videt, mollitaque in illis ^4.386 semivir et tactis subito mollescat in undis.”' ' None

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4.381 to Clytie comes the author of sweet light, ^4.386 from that unhallowed moment pined away.' ' None

3. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • hermaphrodite • hermaphrodites

Found in books: Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 190, 204; Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 166

4. Tacitus, Annals, 12.64.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • hermaphrodite • hermaphrodites

Found in books: Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 165; Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 205

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12.64.1 \xa0In the consulate of Marcus Asinius and Manius Acilius, it was made apparent by a sequence of prodigies that a change of conditions for the worse was foreshadowed. Fire from heaven played round the standards and tents of the soldiers; a\xa0swarm of bees settled on the pediment of the Capitol; it was stated that hermaphrodites had been born, and that a pig had been produced with the talons of a hawk. It was counted among the portents that each of the magistracies found its numbers diminished, since a quaestor, an aedile, and a tribune, together with a praetor and a consul, had died within a\xa0few months. But especial terror was felt by Agrippina. Disquieted by a remark let fall by Claudius in his cups, that it was his destiny first to suffer and finally to punish the infamy of his wives, she determined to act â\x80\x94 and speedily. First, however, she destroyed Domitia Lepida on a feminine quarrel. For, as the daughter of the younger Antonia, the grand-niece of Augustus, the first cousin once removed of Agrippina, and also the sister of her former husband Gnaeus Domitius, Lepida regarded her family distinctions as equal to those of the princess. In looks, age, and fortune there was little between the pair; and since each was as unchaste, as disreputable, and as violent as the other, their competition in the vices was not less keen than in such advantages as they had received from the kindness of fortune. But the fiercest struggle was on the question whether the domit influence with Nero was to be his aunt or his mother: for Lepida was endeavouring to captivate his youthful mind by a smooth tongue and an open hand, while on the other side Agrippina stood grim and menacing, capable of presenting her son with an empire but not of tolerating him as emperor.'' None

5. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • hermaphrodite • hermaphrodites

Found in books: Fletcher (2023), The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature, 26; Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 185, 186, 192, 193, 205, 206; Santangelo (2013), Roman Frugality: Modes of Moderation from the Archaic Age to the Early Empire and Beyond, 131

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • hermaphrodite • hermaphrodites

Found in books: Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019), Esther Eidinow, Ancient Divination and Experience, 170; Fletcher (2023), The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature, 26; Laes Goodey and Rose (2013), Disabilities in Roman Antiquity: Disparate Bodies, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 191, 194, 206, 217, 221, 222

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.

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