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subject	book bibliographic info
lesbos	Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 72 Borg (2008), Paideia: the World of the Second Sophistic: The World of the Second Sophistic, 68 Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 50, 317 Dignas Parker and Stroumsa (2013), Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians, 153 Grzesik (2022), Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. 71 Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 239 Hitch (2017), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, 67, 116 Jenkyns (2013), God, Space, and City in the Roman Imagination, 269 Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 180 Kirichenko (2022), Greek Literature and the Ideal: The Pragmatics of Space from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age, 216 Konig and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 81, 103 Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 78 König and Wiater (2022), Late Hellenistic Greek Literature in Dialogue, 81, 103 Mackil and Papazarkadas (2020), Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B, 303 Marek (2019), In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, 118, 135, 143, 298, 315 Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 192 Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 148, 149 Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 55, 58, 70, 183 Pinheiro et al. (2018), Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel, 9, 100, 242 Price, Finkelberg and Shahar (2021), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, 91 Raaflaub Ober and Wallace (2007), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, 124 Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 39 Russell and Nesselrath (2014), On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination: Synesius, De insomniis, 68 Seaford (2018), Tragedy, Ritual and Money in Ancient Greece: Selected Essays, 32 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 101 Stanton (2021), Unity and Disunity in Greek and Christian Thought under the Roman Peace, 51, 58 Trapp et al. (2016), In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns, 140 Vlassopoulos (2021), Historicising Ancient Slavery, 71, 86 de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 242, 244, 330, 346, 425
lesbos, aegean island	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 370
lesbos, aegean, islands	Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 159
lesbos, and athens	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 19, 20, 38, 39
lesbos, and early delian league	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 83, 106, 107
lesbos, antandros, and the revolt of	Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 39
lesbos, arion of	KÃ¶nig (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 47 Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 300, 301
lesbos, aristopithes, athenian ambassador to	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 239
lesbos, autolycus, athenian ambassador to	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 239
lesbos, chios, founded from	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 81
lesbos, circe of	Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 215, 217
lesbos, cleitophon of	Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 111, 143
lesbos, courtesans, of	Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 190, 192, 194
lesbos, deities of	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 241, 316
lesbos, egyptian gods as healers	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 331, 369
lesbos, elegiac convention, as	Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 215
lesbos, encolpius, of	Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 215
lesbos, hellanicus of	Gagne (2021), Cosmography and the Idea of Hyperborea in Ancient Greece, 298, 383 Kingsley Monti and Rood (2022), The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography, 45 Liapis and Petrides (2019), Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from ca, 111 Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 111, 205, 309, 330 Walter (2020), Time in Ancient Stories of Origin, 93
lesbos, hellanikos of	Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 9
lesbos, isis, at	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 331, 369
lesbos, lesches of	Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 160
lesbos, letter on a stele	Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 84, 110, 714, 715, 716
lesbos, leukippe, of	Pinheiro et al. (2012a), Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, 141, 143, 151
lesbos, methymna	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 305
lesbos, myrsilus of	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 359
lesbos, mytilene	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 280
lesbos, phanias of	Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 78, 79
lesbos, roman treaty with, mytilene	Bruun and Edmondson (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy, 305
lesbos, samos, founded from	Sweeney (2013), Foundation Myths and Politics in Ancient Ionia, 94
lesbos, samos, grouped with chios and	Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 78, 83, 103, 106, 107
lesbos, sent theoroi to itonos, mytilene, city of	Lalone (2019), Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 74, 75, 76, 78
lesbos, temene at leptines, liturgist	Papazarkadas (2011), Sacred and Public Land in Ancient Athens, 91, 98
lesbos, timonothus, athenian ambassador to	Gygax (2016), Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: The Origins of Euergetism, 239
lesbos/lesbian	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 7, 13, 30, 146, 147, 179, 412
lesbos/lesbian, triad	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 30, 146

List of validated texts:

4 validated results for "lesbos"

1. None, None, nan (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Lesbos • Lesbos, • triad, of Lesbos

Found in books: Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 240, 242, 245, 246, 721, 754; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 195, 197

2. Herodotus, Histories, 2.135 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Heraion, Lesbos • Lesbos • Lesbos,

Found in books: Bowie (2021), Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, 729; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 196

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2.135 Ῥοδῶπις δὲ ἐς Αἴγυπτον ἀπίκετο Ἐάνθεω τοῦ Σαμίου κομίσαντος, ἀπικομένη δὲ κατʼ ἐργασίην ἐλύθη χρημάτων μεγάλων ὑπὸ ἀνδρὸς Μυτιληναίου Χαράξου τοῦ Σκαμανδρωνύμου παιδός, ἀδελφεοῦ δὲ Σαπφοῦς τῆς μουσοποιοῦ. οὕτω δὴ ἡ Ῥοδῶπις ἐλευθερώθη, καὶ κατέμεινέ τε ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ κάρτα ἐπαφρόδιτος γενομένη μεγάλα ἐκτήσατο χρήματα ὡς ἂν εἶναι Ῥοδώπι, ἀτὰρ οὐκ ὥς γε ἐς πυραμίδα τοιαύτην ἐξικέσθαι. τῆς γὰρ τὴν δεκάτην τῶν χρημάτων ἰδέσθαι ἐστὶ ἔτι καὶ ἐς τόδε παντὶ τῷ βουλομένῳ, οὐδὲν δεῖ μεγάλα οἱ χρήματα ἀναθεῖναι. ἐπεθύμησε γὰρ Ῥοδῶπις μνημήιον ἑωυτῆς ἐν τῇ Ἑλλάδι καταλιπέσθαι, ποίημα ποιησαμένη τοῦτο τὸ μὴ τυγχάνοι ἄλλῳ ἐξευρημένον καὶ ἀνακείμενον ἐν ἱρῷ, τοῦτο ἀναθεῖναι ἐς Δελφοὺς μνημόσυνον ἑωυτῆς. τῆς ὦν δεκάτης τῶν χρημάτων ποιησαμένη ὀβελοὺς βουπόρους πολλοὺς σιδηρέους, ὅσον ἐνεχώρεε ἡ δεκάτη οἱ, ἀπέπεμπε ἐς Δελφούς· οἳ καὶ νῦν ἔτι συννενέαται ὄπισθε μὲν τοῦ βωμοῦ τὸν Χῖοι ἀνέθεσαν, ἀντίον δὲ αὐτοῦ τοῦ νηοῦ. φιλέουσι δέ κως ἐν τῇ Ναυκράτι ἐπαφρόδιτοι γίνεσθαι αἱ ἑταῖραι. τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ αὕτη, τῆς πέρι λέγεται ὅδε ὁ λόγος, οὕτω δή τι κλεινὴ ἐγένετο ὡς καὶ οἱ πάντες Ἕλληνες Ῥοδώπιος τὸ οὔνομα ἐξέμαθον· τοῦτο δὲ ὕστερον ταύτης, τῇ οὔνομα ἦν Ἀρχιδίκη, ἀοίδιμος ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐγένετο, ἧσσον δὲ τῆς ἑτέρης περιλεσχήνευτος. Χάραξος δὲ ὡς λυσάμενος Ῥοδῶπιν ἀπενόστησε ἐς Μυτιλήνην, ἐν μέλεϊ Σαπφὼ πολλὰ κατεκερτόμησέ μιν.'' None

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2.135 Rhodopis came to Egypt to work, brought by Xanthes of Samos, but upon her arrival was freed for a lot of money by Kharaxus of Mytilene, son of Scamandronymus and brother of Sappho the poetess. ,Thus Rhodopis lived as a free woman in Egypt, where, as she was very alluring, she acquired a lot of money—sufficient for such a Rhodopis, so to speak, but not for such a pyramid. ,Seeing that to this day anyone who likes can calculate what one tenth of her worth was, she cannot be credited with great wealth. For Rhodopis desired to leave a memorial of herself in Greece, by having something made which no one else had thought of or dedicated in a temple and presenting this at Delphi to preserve her memory; ,so she spent one tenth of her substance on the manufacture of a great number of iron beef spits, as many as the tenth would pay for, and sent them to Delphi ; these lie in a heap to this day, behind the altar set up by the Chians and in front of the shrine itself. ,The courtesans of Naucratis seem to be peculiarly alluring, for the woman of whom this story is told became so famous that every Greek knew the name of Rhodopis, and later on a certain Archidice was the theme of song throughout Greece, although less celebrated than the other. ,Kharaxus, after giving Rhodopis her freedom, returned to Mytilene . He is bitterly attacked by Sappho in one of her poems. This is enough about Rhodopis. '' None

3. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.50-11.60 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Lesbos

Found in books: Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 72; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 425

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11.50 Membra iacent diversa locis. Caput, Hebre, lyramque ^11.51 excipis, et (mirum!) medio dum labitur amne, ^11.52 flebile nescio quid queritur lyra, flebile lingua ^11.53 murmurat exanimis, respondent flebile ripae. ^11.54 Iamque mare invectae flumen populare relinquunt ^11.55 et Methymnaeae potiuntur litore Lesbi. ^11.56 Hic ferus expositum peregrinis anguis harenis ^11.57 os petit et sparsos stillanti rore capillos. ^11.59 arcet et in lapidem rictus serpentis apertos ^11.60 congelat et patulos, ut erant, indurat hiatus.' ' None

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11.50 the soil with ploughshares, and in fields nearby ^11.51 were strong-armed peasants, who with eager sweat ^11.52 worked for the harvest as they dug hard fields; ^11.53 and all those peasants, when they saw the troop ^11.54 of frantic women, ran away and left ^11.55 their implements of labor strown upon ^11.56 deserted fields—harrows and heavy rake ^11.57 and their long spade ^11.59 had seized upon those implements, and torn ^11.60 to pieces oxen armed with threatening horns,' ' None

4. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 4.14 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Lesbos

Found in books: Bednarek (2021), The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond, 72; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 330

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4.14 παρῆλθε καὶ ἐς τὸ τοῦ ̓Ορφέως ἄδυτον προσορμισάμενος τῇ Λέσβῳ. φασὶ δὲ ἐνταῦθά ποτε τὸν ̓Ορφέα μαντικῇ χαίρειν, ἔστε τὸν ̓Απόλλω ἐπιμεμελῆσθαι αὐτόν. ἐπειδὴ γὰρ μήτε ἐς Γρύνειον ἐφοίτων ἔτι ὑπὲρ χρησμῶν ἄνθρωποι μήτε ἐς Κλάρον μήτ' ἔνθα ὁ τρίπους ὁ ̓Απολλώνειος, ̓Ορφεὺς δὲ ἔχρα μόνος ἄρτι ἐκ Θρᾴκης ἡ κεφαλὴ ἥκουσα, ἐφίσταταί οἱ χρησμῳδοῦντι ὁ θεὸς καὶ “πέπαυσο” ἔφη “τῶν ἐμῶν, καὶ γὰρ δὴ ̔καὶ̓ ᾅδοντά σε ἱκανῶς ἤνεγκα”."" None

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4.14 He also visited in passing the Adyton of Orpheus when he had put in at Lesbos. And they tell that it was here that Orpheus once on a time loved to prophesy, before Apollo had turned his attention to him. For when the latter found that men no longer flocked to Gryneium for the sake of oracles nor to Clarus nor (to Delphi) where is the tripod of Apollo, and that Orpheus was the only oracle, his head having come from Thrace, he presented himself before the giver of oracles and said: Cease to meddle with my affairs, for I have already put up long enough with your vaticinations.'' 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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