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11 results for "life-change"

1. Hesiod, Theogony, 346-348 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 524

348. And bore fierce offspring – first Orthis, the hound

2. Homer, Iliad, 23.146 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 524

23.146. / that when I had come home thither to my dear native land, I would shear my hair to thee and offer a holy hecatomb, and on the selfsame spot would sacrifice fifty rams, males without blemish, into thy waters, where is thy demesne and thy fragrant altar. So vowed that old man, but thou didst not fulfill for him his desire.

3. Homer, Odyssey, 11.245 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 524

4. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 122-214, 216-247, 215 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 525

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5. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 3.104 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 524

6. Aristophanes, The Women Celebrating The Thesmophoria, 502-503, 505-516, 504 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 525

504. ὁ δ' ἀνὴρ περιέτρεχ' ὠκυτόκι' ὠνούμενος:

7. Plato, Theaetetus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 524, 525

149c. οὐκ ἔδωκε μαιεύεσθαι, ὅτι ἡ ἀνθρωπίνη φύσις ἀσθενεστέρα ἢ λαβεῖν τέχνην ὧν ἂν ᾖ ἄπειρος· ταῖς δὲ διʼ ἡλικίαν ἀτόκοις προσέταξε τιμῶσα τὴν αὑτῆς ὁμοιότητα. ΘΕΑΙ. εἰκός. ΣΩ. οὐκοῦν καὶ τόδε εἰκός τε καὶ ἀναγκαῖον, τὰς κυούσας καὶ μὴ γιγνώσκεσθαι μᾶλλον ὑπὸ τῶν μαιῶν ἢ τῶν ἄλλων; ΘΕΑΙ. πάνυ γε. ΣΩ. καὶ μὴν καὶ διδοῦσαί γε αἱ μαῖαι φαρμάκια καὶ

149c. THEAET. Very likely. SOC. Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregt and who are not? THEAET. Certainly. SOC. And furthermore, the midwives, by means of drug

8. Aristotle, Politics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 525

9. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 2.707-2.709 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 525

2.707. κοῦρος ἐὼν ἔτι γυμνός, ἔτι πλοκάμοισι γεγηθώς. 2.708. ἱλήκοις· αἰεί τοι, ἄναξ, ἄτμητοι ἔθειραι, 2.709. αἰὲν ἀδήλητοι· τὼς γὰρ θέμις. οἰόθι δʼ αὐτὴ

10. Callimachus, Hymns, 1.10-1.23 Tagged with subjects: •life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 524

11. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 1514 Tagged with subjects: •life-change rituals, pregnancy and birth Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 525

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