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subject	book bibliographic info
killed, at agylla, phokaians	Ekroth (2013) 82, 83, 88, 97, 170, 171, 198, 239
killed, by apollo, achilles	Kowalzig (2007) 186
killed, by slaves, hostius quadra	Williams (2012) 57, 68, 90, 91
killed, by, zeus asklepios	Pucci (2016) 5, 9
killed, god	Schremer (2010) 29, 32, 34
killed, in battle, consuls	Konrad (2022) 170, 171, 175, 177, 239, 240, 257, 258, 270, 271, 280, 281, 291
killed, pro salute patriae, sempronius gracchus, c.	Walters (2020) 40, 43
killed, pro salute patriae, sempronius gracchus, ti.	Walters (2020) 40
killed, the catilinarians, res publica	Walters (2020) 80
killed, with head bent towards the ground, animal victim, treatment of	Ekroth (2013) 269, 270, 271, 273, 275, 297
killing	Hitch (2017) 2, 110, 147, 231, 232 Riess (2012) 26, 27, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 53, 54, 62, 63, 66, 67, 69, 73, 76, 84, 85, 86, 90, 93, 94, 96, 97, 100, 104, 106, 108, 111, 116, 117, 118, 123, 127, 134, 135, 136, 147, 150, 152, 212, 214, 215, 216, 217, 220, 226, 276, 307, 323, 352 Vinzent (2013) 15, 72, 220
killing, actaeon, pan painter, bell-krater with pan chasing daphnis and artemis	Simon (2021) 194, 337
killing, an egyptian, ezekiel, tragedian, moses’s	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021) 56
killing, an egyptian, minor, omission of moses’s	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021) 56
killing, and consumption of itys, philomela and procne	Panoussi(2019) 141, 144, 145, 152
killing, at sacrifices	Seaford (2018) 93
killing, bears, hunting and	Simon (2021) 168, 169
killing, child of seduced, parthenoi	Brule (2003) 135
killing, christ, jews, jewish people	Azar (2016) 131, 132, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 146, 186, 187, 188, 189
killing, empedocles, prohibition on	Wolfsdorf (2020) 61, 62, 63, 68
killing, graphic descriptions of	Isaac (2004) 218, 219, 220, 221, 222
killing, in democritus	Wolfsdorf (2020) 229
killing, in empedocles	Wolfsdorf (2020) 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 72
killing, in pythagoreanism	Wolfsdorf (2020) 9, 11
killing, in temples	Seaford (2018) 93
killing, in tragedy	Seaford (2018) 229
killing, intentional	Riess (2012) 26, 35, 94
killing, intrafamilial	Seaford (2018) 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 28, 97, 434
killing, justified	Riess (2012) 36, 43
killing, large-scale in roman warfare	Isaac (2004) 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223
killing, lawful	Riess (2012) 27
killing, niobids, niobid painter, calyx-krater with apollo and artemis	Simon (2021) 194
killing, not a moral issue	Isaac (2004) 222
killing, of male offspring, bacchic	Panoussi(2019) 107, 144, 145, 149, 152, 221
killing, of pallas, turnus	Braund and Most (2004) 221
killing, of patroclus, hector	Braund and Most (2004) 43, 69, 200
killing, of ploughing ox	Parker (2005) 189
killing, of relatives	Riess (2012) 38, 40, 45, 46, 47, 55, 93, 96, 233, 276, 298
killing, of snake, apollo	Walter (2020) 113, 134
killing, of tyrants	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 144
killing, of victim, sacrificial	Lupu(2005) 380
killing, plato, on unjustified	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 160
killing, pollution, metaphysical, and	Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 133, 147
killing, range of meaning	Wolfsdorf (2020) 144
killing, self-help	Riess (2012) 44, 150
killing, tityus, penthesilea painter, kylix with apollo	Simon (2021) 162
killing, unintentional	Riess (2012) 27
killings, tacitus, on the britons, his descriptions of large-scale	Isaac (2004) 220
kills, agamemnon	Seaford (2018) 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239
kills, agamemnon, as maenad	Seaford (2018) 28, 29, 30
kills, an egyptian, judaism, moses	Potter Suh and Holladay (2021) 56
kills, many jews but few christians, earthquake	Kraemer (2020) 382
kills, orpheus, zeus	Graf and Johnston (2007) 167
kills, turnus, aeneas	Mcclellan (2019) 59, 60, 61

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "killed"

1. Homer, Iliad, 16.97-16.100, 18.108-18.111, 21.99-21.113, 21.273-21.283, 23.174 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Achilles, killed by Apollo • Achilles, kills Hector • Hector, killing of Patroclus • killing

Found in books: Braund and Most (2004) 69; Farrell (2021) 73, 202, 272; Kowalzig (2007) 186; Liatsi (2021) 44, 50, 139

16.97. αἲ γὰρ Ζεῦ τε πάτερ καὶ Ἀθηναίη καὶ Ἄπολλον 16.98. μήτέ τις οὖν Τρώων θάνατον φύγοι ὅσσοι ἔασι, 16.99. μήτέ τις Ἀργείων, νῶϊν δʼ ἐκδῦμεν ὄλεθρον, 16.100. ὄφρʼ οἶοι Τροίης ἱερὰ κρήδεμνα λύωμεν.
18.108. καὶ χόλος, ὅς τʼ ἐφέηκε πολύφρονά περ χαλεπῆναι, 18.109. ὅς τε πολὺ γλυκίων μέλιτος καταλειβομένοιο 18.110. ἀνδρῶν ἐν στήθεσσιν ἀέξεται ἠΰτε καπνός· 18.111. ὡς ἐμὲ νῦν ἐχόλωσεν ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν Ἀγαμέμνων.
21.99. νήπιε μή μοι ἄποινα πιφαύσκεο μηδʼ ἀγόρευε· 21.100. πρὶν μὲν γὰρ Πάτροκλον ἐπισπεῖν αἴσιμον ἦμαρ 21.101. τόφρά τί μοι πεφιδέσθαι ἐνὶ φρεσὶ φίλτερον ἦεν 21.102. Τρώων, καὶ πολλοὺς ζωοὺς ἕλον ἠδʼ ἐπέρασσα· 21.103. νῦν δʼ οὐκ ἔσθʼ ὅς τις θάνατον φύγῃ ὅν κε θεός γε 21.104. Ἰλίου προπάροιθεν ἐμῇς ἐν χερσὶ βάλῃσι 21.105. καὶ πάντων Τρώων, περὶ δʼ αὖ Πριάμοιό γε παίδων. 21.106. ἀλλὰ φίλος θάνε καὶ σύ· τί ἦ ὀλοφύρεαι οὕτως; 21.107. κάτθανε καὶ Πάτροκλος, ὅ περ σέο πολλὸν ἀμείνων. 21.108. οὐχ ὁράᾳς οἷος καὶ ἐγὼ καλός τε μέγας τε; 21.109. πατρὸς δʼ εἴμʼ ἀγαθοῖο, θεὰ δέ με γείνατο μήτηρ· 21.110. ἀλλʼ ἔπι τοι καὶ ἐμοὶ θάνατος καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή· 21.111. ἔσσεται ἢ ἠὼς ἢ δείλη ἢ μέσον ἦμαρ 21.112. ὁππότε τις καὶ ἐμεῖο Ἄρῃ ἐκ θυμὸν ἕληται 21.113. ἢ ὅ γε δουρὶ βαλὼν ἢ ἀπὸ νευρῆφιν ὀϊστῷ.
21.273. Ζεῦ πάτερ ὡς οὔ τίς με θεῶν ἐλεεινὸν ὑπέστη 21.274. ἐκ ποταμοῖο σαῶσαι· ἔπειτα δὲ καί τι πάθοιμι. 21.275. ἄλλος δʼ οὔ τις μοι τόσον αἴτιος Οὐρανιώνων, 21.276. ἀλλὰ φίλη μήτηρ, ἥ με ψεύδεσσιν ἔθελγεν· 21.277. ἥ μʼ ἔφατο Τρώων ὑπὸ τείχεϊ θωρηκτάων 21.278. λαιψηροῖς ὀλέεσθαι Ἀπόλλωνος βελέεσσιν. 21.279. ὥς μʼ ὄφελʼ Ἕκτωρ κτεῖναι ὃς ἐνθάδε γʼ ἔτραφʼ ἄριστος· 21.280. τώ κʼ ἀγαθὸς μὲν ἔπεφνʼ, ἀγαθὸν δέ κεν ἐξενάριξε· 21.281. νῦν δέ με λευγαλέῳ θανάτῳ εἵμαρτο ἁλῶναι 21.282. ἐρχθέντʼ ἐν μεγάλῳ ποταμῷ ὡς παῖδα συφορβόν, 21.283. ὅν ῥά τʼ ἔναυλος ἀποέρσῃ χειμῶνι περῶντα.
23.174. καὶ μὲν τῶν ἐνέβαλλε πυρῇ δύο δειροτομήσας,''. None

16.97. Nay, return thou back, when once thou hast set a light of deliverance amid the ships, and suffer the rest to battle over the plain. For I would, O father Zeus, and Athene, and Apollo, that no man of the Trojans might escape death, of all that there are, neither any of the Argives, but that we twain might escape destruction, 16.100. that alone we might loose the sacred diadem of Troy. On this wise spake they one to the other, but Aias no longer abode, for he was sore beset with darts; the will of Zeus was overmastering him, and the lordly Trojans with their missiles; and terribly did the bright helm about his temples
18.108. I that in war am such as is none other of the brazen-coated Achaeans, albeit in council there be others better— so may strife perish from among gods and men, and anger that setteth a man on to grow wroth, how wise soever he be, and that sweeter far than trickling honey 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,
21.99. lay me not; since I am not sprung from the same womb as Hector, who slew thy comrade the kindly and valiant. So spake to him the glorious son of Priam with words of entreaty, but all ungentle was the voice he heard:Fool, tender not ransom to me, neither make harangue. 21.100. Until Patroclus met his day of fate, even till then was it more pleasing to me to spare the Trojans, and full many I took alive and sold oversea; but now is there not one that shall escape death, whomsoever before the walls of Ilios God shall deliver into my hands— 21.105. aye, not one among all the Trojans, and least of all among the sons of Priam. Nay, friend, do thou too die; why lamentest thou thus? Patroclus also died, who was better far than thou. And seest thou not what manner of man am I, how comely and how tall? A good man was my father, and a goddess the mother that bare me; yet over me too hang death and mighty fate. 21.109. aye, not one among all the Trojans, and least of all among the sons of Priam. Nay, friend, do thou too die; why lamentest thou thus? Patroclus also died, who was better far than thou. And seest thou not what manner of man am I, how comely and how tall? A good man was my father, and a goddess the mother that bare me; yet over me too hang death and mighty fate. ' "21.110. There shall come a dawn or eve or mid-day, when my life too shall some man take in battle, whether he smite me with cast of the spear, or with an arrow from the string. So spake he, and the other's knees were loosened where he was and his heart was melted. " "21.113. There shall come a dawn or eve or mid-day, when my life too shall some man take in battle, whether he smite me with cast of the spear, or with an arrow from the string. So spake he, and the other's knees were loosened where he was and his heart was melted. " '
21.273. in vexation of spirit, and the River was ever tiring his knees with its violent flow beneath, and was snatching away the ground from under his feet. 21.274. in vexation of spirit, and the River was ever tiring his knees with its violent flow beneath, and was snatching away the ground from under his feet. Then the son of Peleus uttered a bitter cry, with a look at the broad heaven:Father Zeus, how is it that no one of the gods taketh it upon him in my pitiless plight to save me from out the River! thereafter let come upon me what may. 21.275. None other of the heavenly gods do I blame so much, but only my dear mother, that beguiled me with false words, saying that beneath the wall of the mail-clad Trojans I should perish by the swift missiles of Apollo. Would that Hector had slain me, the best of the men bred here; 21.280. then had a brave man been the slayer, and a brave man had he slain. But now by a miserable death was it appointed me to be cut off, pent in the great river, like a swine-herd boy whom a torrent sweepeth away as he maketh essay to cross it in winter. So spake he, and forthwith Poseidon and Pallas Athene
23.174. And thereon he set two-handled jars of honey and oil, leaning them against the bier; and four horses with high arched neeks he cast swiftly upon the pyre, groaning aloud the while. Nine dogs had the prince, that fed beneath his table, and of these did Achilles cut the throats of twain, and cast them upon the pyre. ''. None

2. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • animal victim, treatment of, killed with head bent towards the ground • killing • victim (sacrificial), killing of

Found in books: Ekroth (2013) 271, 275; Lupu(2005) 380; Riess (2012) 212

3. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 215-217, 238, 1019-1021, 1382-1383 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • killing • killing, intrafamilial • kills Agamemnon • kin-killing • pollution, metaphysical, and killing

Found in books: Hitch (2017) 231; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 140, 141, 147; Seaford (2018) 7, 8, 97, 236, 237

215. 238. βίᾳ χαλινῶν τʼ ἀναύδῳ μένει.' 1020. πρόπαρ ἀνδρὸς μέλαν αἷμα τίς ἂν 1021. πάλιν ἀγκαλέσαιτʼ ἐπαείδων;
1382. ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον, ὥσπερ ἰχθύων, 1383. περιστιχίζω, πλοῦτον εἵματος κακόν. '. None

215. 238. By dint of bit-violence bridling speech.
1019. Who may, by singing spells, call back? '1020. Zeus had not else stopped one who rightly knew 1021. The way to bring the dead again.
1382. A wrap-round with no outlet, as for fishes, 1383. I fence about him — the rich woe of the garment: '. None

4. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 48 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • killing • pollution, metaphysical, and killing

Found in books: Hitch (2017) 231; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 147

48. τί γὰρ λύτρον πεσόντος αἵματος πέδοι;''. None

48. he sends me forth, godless woman that she is. But I am afraid to utter the words she charged me to speak. For what atonement is there for blood fallen to earth? Ah, hearth of utter grief! ''. None

5. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • killing • kin-killing

Found in books: Hitch (2017) 231; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 150; Riess (2012) 215

6. Euripides, Hecuba, 1077 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • killing • kills Agamemnon, as maenad

Found in books: Liatsi (2021) 133; Seaford (2018) 29

1077. Βάκχαις ̔́Αιδου διαμοιρᾶσαι,''. None

1077. in requital of their outrage on me? Ah, woe is me! where am I rushing, leaving my children unguarded for maenads of hell to mangle, to be murdered and ruthlessly cast forth upon the hills, a feast of blood for dogs?''. None

7. Euripides, Orestes, 418, 495-503 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Zeus Asklepios killed by • killing • kin-killing

Found in books: Liatsi (2021) 143; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 220, 222, 223; Pucci (2016) 5

418. δουλεύομεν θεοῖς, ὅ τι ποτ' εἰσὶν οἱ θεοί."
495. οὐδ' ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν κοινὸν ̔Ελλήνων νόμον;" '496. ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἐξέπνευσεν ̓Αγαμέμνων βίον 497. † πληγεὶς θυγατρὸς τῆς ἐμῆς ὑπὲρ κάρα †,' '499. αἴσχιστον ἔργον — οὐ γὰρ αἰνέσω ποτέ — 500. χρῆν αὐτὸν ἐπιθεῖναι μὲν αἵματος δίκην,' "501. ὁσίαν διώκοντ', ἐκβαλεῖν τε δωμάτων" "502. μητέρα: τὸ σῶφρόν τ' ἔλαβεν ἀντὶ συμφορᾶς" "503. καὶ τοῦ νόμου τ' ἂν εἴχετ' εὐσεβής τ' ἂν ἦν." "". None

418. We are slaves to the gods, whatever those gods are. Menelau'
495. nor appealed to the universal law of Hellas ? For instance, when Agamemnon breathed his last struck on his head by my daughter a most foul deed, which I will never defend, 500. he should have brought a charge against his mother and inflicted a holy penalty for bloodshed, banishing her from his house; thus he would have gained moderation instead of calamity, keeping strictly to the law and showing his piety as well. As it is, he has come into the same fate as his mother. '. 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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