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subject	book bibliographic info
intervention, and return to arms, suppliant women athenas	Pucci (2016) 138, 139, 140, 141
intervention, areas of gods, divine	Jim (2022) 6, 9
intervention, artemis, nocturnal	Jim (2022) 59
intervention, as plot device, divine	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 57, 251 Pinheiro et al (2012a) 36, 41, 43, 44, 193, 242
intervention, by cities	Parkins and Smith (1998) 229
intervention, by cities, in roman egypt	Parkins and Smith (1998) 186
intervention, by, cities, economic	Parkins and Smith (1998) 229
intervention, cappadocia/cappadocians, mithridates’s	Marek (2019) 270, 271, 272
intervention, death, averted by political	Walters (2020) 80, 81
intervention, divine	Hirsch-Luipold (2022) 151 Jouanna (2012) 110 Kirichenko (2022) 28, 33, 36, 57 Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 204
intervention, epiphany, divine	Malherbe et al (2014) 436
intervention, gods	Davies (2004) 23, 58, 87, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 134, 141, 156, 159, 160, 170, 199, 205, 206, 221, 229 Martin (2009) 29, 60, 72, 73, 74, 94, 125, 133, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147, 159, 160, 164, 168, 169, 176, 204, 205, 206, 207, 212, 220, 229, 233, 260
intervention, in aeschylus persae, divine	Gruen (2011) 19
intervention, in ritual	Stavrianopoulou (2006) 131, 133, 137, 142, 143, 148
intervention, of devil	Moss (2012) 67, 68
intervention, of god	Dawson (2001) 226 Kalmin (2014) 82, 85, 86, 88, 89, 93, 137, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145
intervention, of motif, eros	Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 57
intervention, of rome in herod the great territories of	Udoh (2006) 158
intervention, roman	Dignas (2002) 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 202, 203, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 231, 232
intervention, royal	Dignas (2002) 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 106, 107
intervention/a, ritual change, initiator, of a ritual	Stavrianopoulou (2006) 142, 280, 283, 287, 290
interventions, asinius gallus	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 162
interventions, divine/divinatory	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 10, 80, 91, 92, 100, 138
interventions, haruspical	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 166
interventions, in ritual	Stavrianopoulou (2006) 16
interventions, medical	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 96
interventions, normative	Stavrianopoulou (2006) 222, 230
interventions, therein day of atonement narrative, rabbinic	Cohn (2013) 68, 69, 70, 71
interventions, tiberius	Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 162, 163

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "intervention"

1. Homer, Iliad, 24.527 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • divine intervention • gods, divine intervention, areas of

Found in books: Jim (2022) 9; Kirichenko (2022) 36

24.527. δοιοὶ γάρ τε πίθοι κατακείαται ἐν Διὸς οὔδει''. None

24.527. For on this wise have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals, that they should live in pain; and themselves are sorrowless. For two urns are set upon the floor of Zeus of gifts that he giveth, the one of ills, the other of blessings. To whomsoever Zeus, that hurleth the thunderbolt, giveth a mingled lot, ''. None

2. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Athena, intervening in Orestes favour • gods, intervention

Found in books: Fabian Meinel (2015) 132; Martin (2009) 125

3. None, None, nan (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • death, averted by political intervention • gods, intervention

Found in books: Martin (2009) 229; Walters (2020) 80

4. Tacitus, Annals, 13.24.2, 14.12.2, 15.44.1, 15.47.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • gods, intervention • interventions, haruspical

Found in books: Davies (2004) 97, 199, 205; Eidinow and Driediger-Murphy (2019) 166

13.24.2. \xa0At the end of the year, the cohort usually present on guard at the Games was withdrawn; the objects being to give a greater appearance of liberty, to prevent the troops from being corrupted by too close contact with the licence of the theatre, and to test whether the populace would continue its orderly behaviour when its custodians were removed. A\xa0lustration of the city was carried out by the emperor at the recommendation of the soothsayers, since the temples of Jupiter and Minerva had been struck by lightning. <' "
14.12.2. \xa0However, with a notable spirit of emulation among the magnates, decrees were drawn up: thanksgivings were to be held at all appropriate shrines; the festival of Minerva, on which the conspiracy had been brought to light, was to be celebrated with annual games; a\xa0golden statue of the goddess, with an effigy of the emperor by her side, was to be erected in the curia, and Agrippina's birthday included among the inauspicious dates. Earlier sycophancies Thrasea Paetus had usually allowed to pass, either in silence or with a curt assent: this time he walked out of the senate, creating a source of danger for himself, but implanting no germ of independence in his colleagues. Portents, also, frequent and futile made their appearance: a\xa0woman gave birth to a serpent, another was killed by a thunderbolt in the embraces of her husband; the sun, again, was suddenly obscured, and the fourteen regions of the capital were struck by lightning â\x80\x94 events which so little marked the concern of the gods that Nero continued for years to come his empire and his crimes. However, to aggravate the feeling against his mother, and to furnish evidence that his own mildness had increased with her removal, he restored to their native soil two women of high rank, Junia and Calpurnia, along with the ex-praetors Valerius Capito and Licinius Gabolus â\x80\x94 all of them formerly banished by Agrippina. He sanctioned the return, even, of the ashes of Lollia Paulina, and the erection of a tomb: Iturius and Calvisius, whom he had himself relegated some little while before, he now released from the penalty. As to Silana, she had died a natural death at Tarentum, to which she had retraced her way, when Agrippina, by whose enmity she had fallen, was beginning to totter or to relent. <" "
15.44.1. \xa0So far, the precautions taken were suggested by human prudence: now means were sought for appeasing deity, and application was made to the Sibylline books; at the injunction of which public prayers were offered to Vulcan, Ceres, and Proserpine, while Juno was propitiated by the matrons, first in the Capitol, then at the nearest point of the sea-shore, where water was drawn for sprinkling the temple and image of the goddess. Ritual banquets and all-night vigils were celebrated by women in the married state. But neither human help, nor imperial munificence, nor all the modes of placating Heaven, could stifle scandal or dispel the belief that the fire had taken place by order. Therefore, to scotch the rumour, Nero substituted as culprits, and punished with the utmost refinements of cruelty, a class of men, loathed for their vices, whom the crowd styled Christians. Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus, and the pernicious superstition was checked for a moment, only to break out once more, not merely in Judaea, the home of the disease, but in the capital itself, where all things horrible or shameful in the world collect and find a vogue. First, then, the confessed members of the sect were arrested; next, on their disclosures, vast numbers were convicted, not so much on the count of arson as for hatred of the human race. And derision accompanied their end: they were covered with wild beasts' skins and torn to death by dogs; or they were fastened on crosses, and, when daylight failed were burned to serve as lamps by night. Nero had offered his Gardens for the spectacle, and gave an exhibition in his Circus, mixing with the crowd in the habit of a charioteer, or mounted on his car. Hence, in spite of a guilt which had earned the most exemplary punishment, there arose a sentiment of pity, due to the impression that they were being sacrificed not for the welfare of the state but to the ferocity of a single man." '
15.47.2. \xa0At the close of the year, report was busy with portents heralding disaster to come â\x80\x94 lightning-flashes in numbers never exceeded, a comet (a\xa0phenomenon to which Nero always made atonement in noble blood); two-headed embryos, human or of the other animals, thrown out in public or discovered in the sacrifices where it is the rule to kill pregt victims. Again, in the territory of Placentia, a calf was born close to the road with the head grown to a leg; and there followed an interpretation of the soothsayers, stating that another head was being prepared for the world; but it would be neither strong nor secret, as it had been repressed in the womb, and had been brought forth at the wayside.''. None

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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