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subject	book bibliographic info
isle, of scribes, scyrus	Verhelst and Scheijnens (2022), Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context, 40
isle, of the blessed	Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 553, 596, 597, 599, 603, 605
isle, of the blessed, true stories	Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 245, 246, 247
isle, of the true stories, blessed, canonical world	Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 244, 245
isle, of the true stories, blessed, homer	Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 243, 244, 245
isle, of the true stories, blessed, hyperreality	Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247
isle, of the true stories, blessed, imperial literary culture	Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247
isle, of the true stories, blessed, plato	Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243
isle, shrine, on tiber	Athanassaki and Titchener (2022), Plutarch's Cities, 76
isles, british	Bianchetti et al. (2015), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition, 32, 35, 96 Lidonnici and Lieber (2007), Heavenly Tablets: Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism, 138
isles, of the blessed	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 150, 175 Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 21, 22, 50, 82, 83, 84, 85, 137 de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 187
isles, of the blessed in hesiod, on	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 110, 113
isles, of the blessed, pindar’s ol.	McClay (2023), The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance. 68, 69
isles, of the blessed/elysian fields, death and the afterlife	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 400, 401, 554, 557, 562
isles, of the blesses	Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 5, 78, 121, 122, 133
isles, of the blesses, ἰϲόθεοϲ	Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 161
isles, of the blest	Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 165 Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 80, 119, 120 Schibli (2002), Hierocles of Alexandria, 321
isles, shetland	Bianchetti et al. (2015), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition, 35

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "isle"

1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 106-180 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hesiod, on Isles of the Blessed in • Isle of the Blessed • Isles of the Blessed • Isles of the Blesses • Isles of the Blest • death and the afterlife, Isles of the Blessed/Elysian Fields

Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 401, 557; Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 150; Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 80, 119; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 5; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 110; Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 553, 596, 605

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106 εἰ δʼ ἐθέλεις, ἕτερόν τοι ἐγὼ λόγον ἐκκορυφώσω'¹⁰⁷ εὖ καὶ ἐπισταμένως· σὺ δʼ ἐνὶ φρεσὶ βάλλεο σῇσιν. ¹⁰⁸ ὡς ὁμόθεν γεγάασι θεοὶ θνητοί τʼ ἄνθρωποι. ¹⁰⁹ χρύσεον μὲν πρώτιστα γένος μερόπων ἀνθρώπων ¹¹⁰ ἀθάνατοι ποίησαν Ὀλύμπια δώματʼ ἔχοντες. ¹¹¹ οἳ μὲν ἐπὶ Κρόνου ἦσαν, ὅτʼ οὐρανῷ ἐμβασίλευεν· ¹¹² ὥστε θεοὶ δʼ ἔζωον ἀκηδέα θυμὸν ἔχοντες ¹¹³ νόσφιν ἄτερ τε πόνων καὶ ὀιζύος· οὐδέ τι δειλὸν ¹¹⁴ γῆρας ἐπῆν, αἰεὶ δὲ πόδας καὶ χεῖρας ὁμοῖοι ¹¹⁵ τέρποντʼ ἐν θαλίῃσι κακῶν ἔκτοσθεν ἁπάντων· ¹¹⁶ θνῇσκον δʼ ὥσθʼ ὕπνῳ δεδμημένοι· ἐσθλὰ δὲ πάντα ¹¹⁷ τοῖσιν ἔην· καρπὸν δʼ ἔφερε ζείδωρος ἄρουρα ¹¹⁸ αὐτομάτη πολλόν τε καὶ ἄφθονον· οἳ δʼ ἐθελημοὶ ¹¹⁹ ἥσυχοι ἔργʼ ἐνέμοντο σὺν ἐσθλοῖσιν πολέεσσιν. ¹²⁰ ἀφνειοὶ μήλοισι, φίλοι μακάρεσσι θεοῖσιν. ¹²¹ αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ δὴ τοῦτο γένος κατὰ γαῖʼ ἐκάλυψε,— ¹²² τοὶ μὲν δαίμονες ἁγνοὶ ἐπιχθόνιοι καλέονται ¹²³ ἐσθλοί, ἀλεξίκακοι, φύλακες θνητῶν ἀνθρώπων, ¹²⁴ οἵ ῥα φυλάσσουσίν τε δίκας καὶ σχέτλια ἔργα ¹²⁵ ἠέρα ἑσσάμενοι πάντη φοιτῶντες ἐπʼ αἶαν, ¹²⁶ πλουτοδόται· καὶ τοῦτο γέρας βασιλήιον ἔσχον—, ¹²⁷ δεύτερον αὖτε γένος πολὺ χειρότερον μετόπισθεν ¹²⁸ ἀργύρεον ποίησαν Ὀλύμπια δώματʼ ἔχοντες, ¹²⁹ χρυσέῳ οὔτε φυὴν ἐναλίγκιον οὔτε νόημα. ¹³⁰ ἀλλʼ ἑκατὸν μὲν παῖς ἔτεα παρὰ μητέρι κεδνῇ ¹³¹ ἐτρέφετʼ ἀτάλλων, μέγα νήπιος, ᾧ ἐνὶ οἴκῳ. ¹³² ἀλλʼ ὅτʼ ἄρʼ ἡβήσαι τε καὶ ἥβης μέτρον ἵκοιτο, ¹³³ παυρίδιον ζώεσκον ἐπὶ χρόνον, ἄλγεʼ ἔχοντες ¹³⁴ ἀφραδίῃς· ὕβριν γὰρ ἀτάσθαλον οὐκ ἐδύναντο ¹³⁵ ἀλλήλων ἀπέχειν, οὐδʼ ἀθανάτους θεραπεύειν ¹³⁶ ἤθελον οὐδʼ ἔρδειν μακάρων ἱεροῖς ἐπὶ βωμοῖς, ¹³⁷ ἣ θέμις ἀνθρώποις κατὰ ἤθεα. τοὺς μὲν ἔπειτα ¹³⁸ Ζεὺς Κρονίδης ἔκρυψε χολούμενος, οὕνεκα τιμὰς ¹³⁹ οὐκ ἔδιδον μακάρεσσι θεοῖς, οἳ Ὄλυμπον ἔχουσιν. ¹⁴⁰ αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ καὶ τοῦτο γένος κατὰ γαῖʼ ἐκάλυψε,— ¹⁴¹ τοὶ μὲν ὑποχθόνιοι μάκαρες θνητοῖς καλέονται, ¹⁴² δεύτεροι, ἀλλʼ ἔμπης τιμὴ καὶ τοῖσιν ὀπηδεῖ—, ¹⁴³ Ζεὺς δὲ πατὴρ τρίτον ἄλλο γένος μερόπων ἀνθρώπων ¹⁴⁴ χάλκειον ποίησʼ, οὐκ ἀργυρέῳ οὐδὲν ὁμοῖον, ¹⁴⁵ ἐκ μελιᾶν, δεινόν τε καὶ ὄβριμον· οἷσιν Ἄρηος ¹⁴⁶ ἔργʼ ἔμελεν στονόεντα καὶ ὕβριες· οὐδέ τι σῖτον ¹⁴⁷ ἤσθιον, ἀλλʼ ἀδάμαντος ἔχον κρατερόφρονα θυμόν, ¹⁴⁸ ἄπλαστοι· μεγάλη δὲ βίη καὶ χεῖρες ἄαπτοι ¹⁴⁹ ἐξ ὤμων ἐπέφυκον ἐπὶ στιβαροῖσι μέλεσσιν. ¹⁵⁰ ὧν δʼ ἦν χάλκεα μὲν τεύχεα, χάλκεοι δέ τε οἶκοι ¹⁵¹ χαλκῷ δʼ εἰργάζοντο· μέλας δʼ οὐκ ἔσκε σίδηρος. ¹⁵² καὶ τοὶ μὲν χείρεσσιν ὕπο σφετέρῃσι δαμέντες ¹⁵³ βῆσαν ἐς εὐρώεντα δόμον κρυεροῦ Αίδαο ¹⁵⁴ νώνυμνοι· θάνατος δὲ καὶ ἐκπάγλους περ ἐόντας ¹⁵⁵ εἷλε μέλας, λαμπρὸν δʼ ἔλιπον φάος ἠελίοιο. ¹⁵⁶ αὐτὰρ ἐπεὶ καὶ τοῦτο γένος κατὰ γαῖʼ ἐκάλυψεν, ¹⁵⁷ αὖτις ἔτʼ ἄλλο τέταρτον ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ ¹⁵⁸ Ζεὺς Κρονίδης ποίησε, δικαιότερον καὶ ἄρειον, ¹⁵⁹ ἀνδρῶν ἡρώων θεῖον γένος, οἳ καλέονται ¹⁶⁰ ἡμίθεοι, προτέρη γενεὴ κατʼ ἀπείρονα γαῖαν. ¹⁶¹ καὶ τοὺς μὲν πόλεμός τε κακὸς καὶ φύλοπις αἰνή, ¹⁶² τοὺς μὲν ὑφʼ ἑπταπύλῳ Θήβῃ, Καδμηίδι γαίῃ, ¹⁶³ ὤλεσε μαρναμένους μήλων ἕνεκʼ Οἰδιπόδαο, ¹⁶⁴ τοὺς δὲ καὶ ἐν νήεσσιν ὑπὲρ μέγα λαῖτμα θαλάσσης ¹⁶⁵ ἐς Τροίην ἀγαγὼν Ἑλένης ἕνεκʼ ἠυκόμοιο. ¹⁶⁶ ἔνθʼ ἤτοι τοὺς μὲν θανάτου τέλος ἀμφεκάλυψε, ¹⁶⁷ τοῖς δὲ δίχʼ ἀνθρώπων βίοτον καὶ ἤθεʼ ὀπάσσας ¹⁶⁸ Ζεὺς Κρονίδης κατένασσε πατὴρ ἐς πείρατα γαίης. ¹⁶⁹ Πέμπτον δʼ αὖτις ἔτʼ ἄ λλο γένος θῆκʼ εὐρύοπα Ζεὺς ¹⁶⁹ ἀνδρῶν, οἳ γεγάασιν ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ. ¹⁶⁹ τοῖσι δʼ ὁμῶς ν εάτοις τιμὴ καὶ κῦδος ὀπηδεῖ. ¹⁶⁹ τοῦ γὰρ δεσμὸ ν ἔλυσε πα τὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε. ¹⁶⁹ τηλοῦ ἀπʼ ἀθανάτων· τοῖσιν Κρόνος ἐμβασιλεύει. ¹⁷⁰ καὶ τοὶ μὲν ναίουσιν ἀκηδέα θυμὸν ἔχοντες ¹⁷¹ ἐν μακάρων νήσοισι παρʼ Ὠκεανὸν βαθυδίνην, ¹⁷² ὄλβιοι ἥρωες, τοῖσιν μελιηδέα καρπὸν ¹⁷³ τρὶς ἔτεος θάλλοντα φέρει ζείδωρος ἄρουρα. ¹⁷⁴ μηκέτʼ ἔπειτʼ ὤφελλον ἐγὼ πέμπτοισι μετεῖναι ¹⁷⁵ ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλʼ ἢ πρόσθε θανεῖν ἢ ἔπειτα γενέσθαι. ¹⁷⁶ νῦν γὰρ δὴ γένος ἐστὶ σιδήρεον· οὐδέ ποτʼ ἦμαρ ¹⁷⁷ παύονται καμάτου καὶ ὀιζύος, οὐδέ τι νύκτωρ ¹⁷⁸ φθειρόμενοι. χαλεπὰς δὲ θεοὶ δώσουσι μερίμνας· ¹⁷⁹ ἀλλʼ ἔμπης καὶ τοῖσι μεμείξεται ἐσθλὰ κακοῖσιν. ¹⁸⁰ Ζεὺς δʼ ὀλέσει καὶ τοῦτο γένος μερόπων ἀνθρώπων, ' None

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106 (The lid already stopped her, by the will'¹⁰⁷ of aegis-bearing Zeus). But all about ¹⁰⁸ There roam among mankind all kinds of ill, ¹⁰⁹ Filling both land and sea, while every day ¹¹⁰ Plagues haunt them, which, unwanted, come at night ¹¹¹ As well, in silence, for Zeus took away ¹¹² Their voice – it is not possible to fight ¹¹³ The will of Zeus. I’ll sketch now skilfully, ¹¹⁴ If you should welcome it, another story: ¹¹⁵ Take it to heart. The selfsame ancestry ¹¹⁶ Embraced both men and gods, who, in their glory ¹¹⁷ High on Olympus first devised a race ¹¹⁸ of gold, existing under Cronus’ reign ¹¹⁹ When he ruled Heaven. There was not a trace ¹²⁰ of woe among them since they felt no pain; ¹²¹ There was no dread old age but, always rude ¹²² of health, away from grief, they took delight ¹²³ In plenty, while in death they seemed subdued ¹²⁴ By sleep. Life-giving earth, of its own right, ¹²⁵ Would bring forth plenteous fruit. In harmony ¹²⁶ They lived, with countless flocks of sheep, at ease ¹²⁷ With all the gods. But when this progeny ¹²⁸ Was buried underneath the earth – yet these ¹²⁹ Live on, land-spirits, holy, pure and blessed, ¹³⁰ Who guard mankind from evil, watching out ¹³¹ For all the laws and heinous deeds, while dressed ¹³² In misty vapour, roaming all about ¹³³ The land, bestowing wealth, this kingly right ¹³⁴ Being theirs – a second race the Olympians made, ¹³⁵ A silver one, far worse, unlike, in sight ¹³⁶ And mind, the golden, for a young child stayed, ¹³⁷ A large bairn, in his mother’s custody, ¹³⁸ Just playing inside for a hundred years. ¹³⁹ But when they all reached their maturity, ¹⁴⁰ They lived a vapid life, replete with tears, ¹⁴¹ Through foolishness, unable to forbear ¹⁴² To brawl, spurning the gods, refusing, too, ¹⁴³ To sacrifice (a law kept everywhere). ¹⁴⁴ Then Zeus, since they would not give gods their due, ¹⁴⁵ In rage hid them, as did the earth – all men ¹⁴⁶ Have called the race Gods Subterranean, ¹⁴⁷ Second yet honoured still. A third race then ¹⁴⁸ Zeus fashioned out of bronze, quite different than ¹⁴⁹ The second, with ash spears, both dread and stout; ¹⁵⁰ They liked fell warfare and audacity; ¹⁵¹ They ate no corn, encased about ¹⁵² With iron, full invincibility ¹⁵³ In hands, limbs, shoulders, and the arms they plied ¹⁵⁴ Were bronze, their houses, too, their tools; they knew ¹⁵⁵ of no black iron. Later, when they died ¹⁵⁶ It was self-slaughter – they descended to ¹⁵⁷ Chill Hades’ mouldy house, without a name. ¹⁵⁸ Yes, black death took them off, although they’d been ¹⁵⁹ Impetuous, and they the sun’s bright flame ¹⁶⁰ Would see no more, nor would this race be seen ¹⁶¹ Themselves, screened by the earth. Cronus’ son then ¹⁶² Fashioned upon the lavish land one more, ¹⁶³ The fourth, more just and brave – of righteous men, ¹⁶⁴ Called demigods. It was the race before ¹⁶⁵ Our own upon the boundless earth. Foul war ¹⁶⁶ And dreadful battles vanquished some of these, ¹⁶⁷ While some in Cadmus’ Thebes, while looking for ¹⁶⁸ The flocks of Oedipus, found death. The sea ¹⁶⁹ Took others as they crossed to Troy fight ¹⁷⁰ For fair-tressed Helen. They were screened as well ¹⁷¹ In death. Lord Zeus arranged it that they might ¹⁷² Live far from others. Thus they came to dwell, ¹⁷³ Carefree, among the blessed isles, content ¹⁷⁴ And affluent, by the deep-swirling sea. ¹⁷⁵ Sweet grain, blooming three times a year, was sent ¹⁷⁶ To them by the earth, that gives vitality ¹⁷⁷ To all mankind, and Cronus was their lord, ¹⁷⁸ Far from the other gods, for Zeus, who reign ¹⁷⁹ Over gods and men, had cut away the cord ¹⁸⁰ That bound him. Though the lowest race, its gain ' None

2. Homer, Iliad, 9.412-9.414 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Isles of the Blesses • death and the afterlife, Isles of the Blessed/Elysian Fields

Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 400, 554; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 5

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9.412 εἰ μέν κʼ αὖθι μένων Τρώων πόλιν ἀμφιμάχωμαι, ^9.413 ὤλετο μέν μοι νόστος, ἀτὰρ κλέος ἄφθιτον ἔσται· ^9.414 εἰ δέ κεν οἴκαδʼ ἵκωμι φίλην ἐς πατρίδα γαῖαν,'' None

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9.412 For my mother the goddess, silver-footed Thetis, telleth me that twofold fates are bearing me toward the doom of death: if I abide here and war about the city of the Trojans, then lost is my home-return, but my renown shall be imperishable; but if I return home to my dear native land, ^9.414 For my mother the goddess, silver-footed Thetis, telleth me that twofold fates are bearing me toward the doom of death: if I abide here and war about the city of the Trojans, then lost is my home-return, but my renown shall be imperishable; but if I return home to my dear native land, '' None

3. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Isle of the Blessed • Isle(s) of the Blessed • Isles of the Blessed • death and the afterlife, Isles of the Blessed/Elysian Fields

Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 400, 557; Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 50; Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 553, 596; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 187

4. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Isle of the Blessed • death and the afterlife, Isles of the Blessed/Elysian Fields

Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 557; Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 603

5. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Hesiod, on Isles of the Blessed in • Isle of the Blessed

Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 110; Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 605

6. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Isle of the Blessed • Isles of the Blessed (Pindar’s Ol. • Isles of the Blesses

Found in books: McClay (2023), The Bacchic Gold Tablets and Poetic Tradition: Memory and Performance. 68, 69; Meister (2019), Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity, 78, 122; Wolfsdorf (2020), Early Greek Ethics, 553, 599, 605

7. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Isle of the Blessed • True stories, Isle of the Blessed, Plato • True stories, Isle of the Blessed, hyperreality

Found in books: Mheallaigh (2014), Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality, 240; Stephens and Winkler (1995), Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary, 120

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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