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polluted, agamemnon Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 121
polluted, as, pollution, clytemnestra Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 62, 121, 122, 123
polluted, hades Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 198, 199, 200
polluted, in soul, plato, the wicked Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 73
polluted, jerusalem temple Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 351, 384, 392, 395
polluted, orestes Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 121, 134
polluted, sacraments Hellholm et al. (2010), Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity, 929
polluted, sacraments/cursed mysteries xxxi Tabbernee (2007), Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 361
polluting Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 15, 211
polluting, abortion Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 209, 210
polluting, animals Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 15
polluting, childbirth Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 78, 209, 216
polluting, death Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 76, 216
polluting, food Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 211
polluting, in comedy, corpse as source of pollution, not Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 241, 242
polluting, menstruation Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 210
polluting, sexual intercourse Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 212, 213
polluting, supplication, violation of Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 31, 32, 91, 171, 172, 173, 220, 227, 282
polluting, the household, corpse as source of pollution Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 260
pollution Balberg (2023), Fractured Tablets: Forgetfulness and Fallibility in Late Ancient Rabbinic Culture, 98, 105, 106, 107, 114, 119, 125, 126
Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 268
Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 120, 233, 256, 263, 264, 265
Gagarin and Cohen (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law, 68, 388
Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 13, 29, 297, 322, 323, 325, 326, 356, 553, 650, 670, 753
Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 108, 109
Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 30, 31, 32, 116
Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 12, 26, 30, 50, 52, 57, 58, 108, 110, 114, 123, 138, 143, 150, 196, 206, 214, 215, 217, 243, 250
Lidonnici and Lieber (2007), Heavenly Tablets: Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism, 41
Lieu (2004), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, 111, 116, 119, 120, 193, 285
Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 76, 77, 79
Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 18, 74, 91, 99, 100, 120, 126, 146, 163, 178
Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 78, 166, 167, 218
Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 123, 159, 175, 240
Monnickendam (2020), Jewish Law and Early Christian Identity: Betrothal, Marriage, and Infidelity in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian, 155
Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 24, 25, 33, 61, 62, 63, 64
Parker (2005), Polytheism and Society at Athens, 102, 418
Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 22, 87, 88, 170, 171, 225, 234, 235, 241
Stavrianopoulou (2006), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, 221
Wilson (2012), The Sentences of Sextus, 64, 122, 124, 145, 148, 149, 205, 424
pollution, agos, as metaphysical Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
pollution, and categorisation Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 75, 98, 99, 100, 101, 104
pollution, and dedications Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 98, 99, 100
pollution, and defilement Gera (2014), Judith, 40, 171, 186, 187, 282, 283, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 316, 370, 420
pollution, and desire Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 37
pollution, and dike Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 122, 123, 124, 125, 134, 135
pollution, and divination Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 177
pollution, and embedded crises Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 9
pollution, and funerals Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 105, 135, 136
pollution, and guilt Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 125
pollution, and helios Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 20
pollution, and inherited evil Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 26, 27
pollution, and otherness Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 192, 193, 199, 200, 201
pollution, and person, distinction between Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 62
pollution, and purification, death and the afterlife Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 399, 526
pollution, and religious correctness Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 67, 68, 141, 144, 218
pollution, and sacrifices Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 66, 68, 69, 70, 78, 141, 144
pollution, and social exclusion Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 177, 178
pollution, and the dead Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 98, 99, 105
pollution, and the female body Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 34
pollution, and tragedy, relation between Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 3
pollution, and, women Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 65, 78
pollution, apollo of delphi on, and Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 100, 102, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 220
pollution, as system of explanation Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 19, 20, 52, 53, 54
pollution, attaching meaning Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 121, 122
pollution, blood, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 65, 125, 126, 127
pollution, caused by, dead, the Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 98, 99, 105
pollution, childbirth as a source of Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 17, 20, 28, 59, 213, 239, 242
pollution, conceptions of Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 74
pollution, corpse as source of Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 21, 57, 59, 177, 178, 179
pollution, crime, as cause of Jouanna (2012), Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen, 108
pollution, crisis, embedded, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 9
pollution, death Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 526
pollution, death as source of Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 17, 20, 27, 28, 57, 59, 194, 239, 242, 282
pollution, dedications, and Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 98, 99, 100
pollution, desire, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 37
pollution, dike, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 122, 123, 124, 125, 134, 135
pollution, divination, and Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132, 135, 136, 137, 138, 177
pollution, draco, feigning Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 142
pollution, emanating from corpse Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 96
pollution, empedocles on Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 69, 70
pollution, euripides, on human Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 398, 399
pollution, external Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 65, 125, 126, 127, 142
pollution, from abortion and miscarriage, incubation, greek Renberg (2017), Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World, 243
pollution, from, homicide Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 66, 100, 102, 105, 108, 136
pollution, gods, not reached by Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 103, 104
pollution, heracles, euripides, on human Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 398, 399
pollution, heraclitus on Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 66
pollution, hereditary sin Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 135
pollution, hero cults Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 390
pollution, human Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 398, 399
pollution, impurity Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 154, 230, 286, 287, 299, 312, 381, 473, 499, 500
pollution, in visibility of Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 64, 65
pollution, inherited evil, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 26, 27
pollution, iphigenia, on Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 158, 159
pollution, lamp Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 5
pollution, left unburied leading to agos, corpse as source of Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 23, 31, 32
pollution, limited, defined Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 83, 84, 101, 102, 103, 104
pollution, matricide, in sophocles electra, no Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 176
pollution, matricide, resulting in Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 121
Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228
pollution, menstruants/niddah, earliest expression of a fear of menstrual Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 387, 388
pollution, metaphysical Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 21, 23, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 51, 62, 167, 169, 182, 233, 234, 239, 260, 282, 283, 290
pollution, metaphysical, and curse Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 215
pollution, metaphysical, and erotic madness Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 215
pollution, metaphysical, and killing Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 133, 147
pollution, metaphysical, and oath-breaking Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 86, 122, 123, 278
pollution, miaros impurity, accusation of Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 20, 210
pollution, miaros impurity, aeschines Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 101
pollution, miaros impurity, and homicide Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 123, 124
pollution, miaros impurity, andocides Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 143, 144, 145, 147, 148
pollution, miaros impurity, aristogiton Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 187, 188, 189
pollution, miaros impurity, athenians Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 123, 124, 206
pollution, miaros impurity, demosthenes Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
pollution, miaros impurity, disqualifying from public life Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 130, 131, 134
pollution, miaros impurity, impure food Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 206
pollution, miaros impurity, in aeschines Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 174, 175, 176, 181
pollution, miaros impurity, in private speeches Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 284, 286, 296
pollution, miaros impurity, individual use Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 204
pollution, miaros impurity, mere abuse Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 8, 9, 68
pollution, miasma Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 277
van der EIjk (2005), Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity: Doctors and Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease, 60, 63, 64
pollution, miasma from animal sacrifice Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 424
pollution, miasma, of community Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 137, 138
pollution, miasma, of oak-tree Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 334, 335, 351
pollution, moicheia, moichos, cf. miasma, cf. adultery, seduction Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 36, 37, 43, 53, 54, 345, 346
pollution, nameless Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 96, 105, 106, 107, 108
pollution, objects banned from sanctuaries Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 51
pollution, oedipus Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68
pollution, of altars Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 68, 69
pollution, of bloodlines Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 5, 72, 74, 326
pollution, of munatius plancus, l., dedicator of temple of saturn, murderers, ritual Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 4, 102, 133, 286, 292, 296, 308
pollution, of priests Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 102, 105, 135
pollution, of sanctuaries Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 99, 100, 133
pollution, of suicide Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 136
pollution, of temple Ando and Ruepke (2006), Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome, 47
pollution, of the mind Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 26, 27, 34, 35, 43, 44, 144
pollution, of the soul Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 66, 67, 137
pollution, of thebes Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 750
pollution, oracle, delphi, announcing Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 52, 62, 63
pollution, oracle, dodona, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 18, 19
pollution, orphics on Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 68
pollution, polis, rise of and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 3
pollution, pollution, miaros impurity, spreading Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 99, 100
pollution, priests and priestesses, and Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 102, 105, 135
pollution, proper respect for gods, and Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 141
pollution, pythagoras and pythagoreans, on Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 66, 67, 69, 111
pollution, pythagoreans on Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 66, 67, 69, 111
pollution, relation between, tragedy, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 3
pollution, ritual Mueller (2002), Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, 85, 128, 156
Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 8, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 96, 102, 134, 258, 259, 286, 292, 296, 307
pollution, ritual, language of Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 72, 74, 76, 92, 118, 134, 299, 307
pollution, sacrifice, animal, wrong incurs Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 30, 51
pollution, sacrifices, and Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 66, 68, 69, 70, 78, 141, 144
pollution, sex, as source of Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 20, 28, 31, 41, 43, 59, 60, 188, 189, 194, 213, 239, 282
pollution, sex, illicit, incurs Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 60, 61
pollution, soul, and death Feder (2022), Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor, 146, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170
pollution, stability, and, general Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 75, 82, 83, 84
pollution, theophrastus on Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 66, 67, 78, 145
pollution, theophrastus, and Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 66, 67, 78, 145
pollution, through words, transmission of Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 35
pollution, tiresias, naming Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 59, 63, 66
pollution, tiresias, not naming Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 96
pollution, transgressive Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 75, 82, 83, 84, 96, 105, 106, 107, 108
pollution, transgressive, transgression Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 75, 82, 83, 84, 96
pollution, understanding of misfortune, through words, provided by concept of Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 19, 20, 52, 53, 54
pollution, virginity, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 199, 200
pollution, women, in judaism, as source of Neusner Green and Avery-Peck (2022), Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation: Turning Points and Focal Points, 315
pollution, women, physiological change and Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 524, 525, 526, 527
pollution/impurity, consequences of inner Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 269, 270, 271, 272, 277, 278
pollution/miasma Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 23, 37, 45, 47, 54, 86, 127, 192, 204, 205, 219
purity/pollution, boundaries, and Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 192, 193, 195, 226, 227

List of validated texts:
41 validated results for "pollution"
1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 24.4 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • pollution and defilement • pollution, impurity

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 306; Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 230

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24.4 לֹא־יוּכַל בַּעְלָהּ הָרִאשׁוֹן אֲשֶׁר־שִׁלְּחָהּ לָשׁוּב לְקַחְתָּהּ לִהְיוֹת לוֹ לְאִשָּׁה אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר הֻטַּמָּאָה כִּי־תוֹעֵבָה הִוא לִפְנֵי יְהוָה וְלֹא תַחֲטִיא אֶת־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ נַחֲלָה׃'' None		sup>
24.4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.'' None
2. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 14.18 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Jerusalem Temple, polluted • pollution • pollution and defilement

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 171, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 420; Lidonnici and Lieber (2007), Heavenly Tablets: Interpretation, Identity and Tradition in Ancient Judaism, 41; Lieu (2004), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, 193, 285; Piotrkowski (2019), Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period, 384

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14.18 וּמַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק מֶלֶךְ שָׁלֵם הוֹצִיא לֶחֶם וָיָיִן וְהוּא כֹהֵן לְאֵל עֶלְיוֹן׃' ' None		sup>
14.18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine; and he was priest of God the Most High.' ' None
3. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 5.1-5.3 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • menstruants/niddah, earliest expression of a fear of menstrual pollution • soul, and death pollution

 Found in books: Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 387, 388; Feder (2022), Purity and Pollution in the Hebrew Bible: From Embodied Experience to Moral Metaphor, 153, 160, 168, 169

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5.1 וְאִישׁ אֶת־קֳדָשָׁיו לוֹ יִהְיוּ אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר־יִתֵּן לַכֹּהֵן לוֹ יִהְיֶה׃
5.1 וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה לֵּאמֹר׃ 5.2 וְאַתְּ כִּי שָׂטִית תַּחַת אִישֵׁךְ וְכִי נִטְמֵאת וַיִּתֵּן אִישׁ בָּךְ אֶת־שְׁכָבְתּוֹ מִבַּלְעֲדֵי אִישֵׁךְ׃ 5.2 צַו אֶת־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וִישַׁלְּחוּ מִן־הַמַּחֲנֶה כָּל־צָרוּעַ וְכָל־זָב וְכֹל טָמֵא לָנָפֶשׁ׃ 5.3 אוֹ אִישׁ אֲשֶׁר תַּעֲבֹר עָלָיו רוּחַ קִנְאָה וְקִנֵּא אֶת־אִשְׁתּוֹ וְהֶעֱמִיד אֶת־הָאִשָּׁה לִפְנֵי יְהוָה וְעָשָׂה לָהּ הַכֹּהֵן אֵת כָּל־הַתּוֹרָה הַזֹּאת׃'5.3 מִזָּכָר עַד־נְקֵבָה תְּשַׁלֵּחוּ אֶל־מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה תְּשַׁלְּחוּם וְלֹא יְטַמְּאוּ אֶת־מַחֲנֵיהֶם אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי שֹׁכֵן בְּתוֹכָם׃ ' None		sup>
5.1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: 5.2 ’Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead; 5.3 both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camp, in the midst whereof I dwell.’'' None
4. None, None, nan (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • pollution • pollution, impurity

 Found in books: Lieu (2004), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, 193; Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 312
5. None, None, nan (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • menstruants/niddah, earliest expression of a fear of menstrual pollution • women, in Judaism, as source of pollution

 Found in books: Cohen (2010), The Significance of Yavneh and other Essays in Jewish Hellenism, 387; Neusner Green and Avery-Peck (2022), Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation: Turning Points and Focal Points, 315
6. Hebrew Bible, Jeremiah, 2.2 (8th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • pollution and defilement • pollution, impurity

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 304; Nissinen and Uro (2008), Sacred Marriages: The Divine-Human Sexual Metaphor from Sumer to Early Christianity, 312

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2.2 הָלֹךְ וְקָרָאתָ בְאָזְנֵי יְרוּשָׁלִַם לֵאמֹר כֹּה אָמַר יְהוָה זָכַרְתִּי לָךְ חֶסֶד נְעוּרַיִךְ אַהֲבַת כְּלוּלֹתָיִךְ לֶכְתֵּךְ אַחֲרַי בַּמִּדְבָּר בְּאֶרֶץ לֹא זְרוּעָה׃
2.2 כִּי מֵעוֹלָם שָׁבַרְתִּי עֻלֵּךְ נִתַּקְתִּי מוֹסְרֹתַיִךְ וַתֹּאמְרִי לֹא אעבד אֶעֱבוֹר כִּי עַל־כָּל־גִּבְעָה גְּבֹהָה וְתַחַת כָּל־עֵץ רַעֲנָן אַתְּ צֹעָה זֹנָה׃'' None		sup>
2.2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the LORD: I remember for thee the affection of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou wentest after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.'' None
7. Hesiod, Works And Days, 238-247, 706, 718, 724-726, 729-730, 733-736, 738-741, 757-759 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • agos, as metaphysical pollution • corpse as source of pollution, left unburied leading to agos • inner pollution/impurity, consequences of • miaros (pollution, impurity), Demosthenes • miaros (pollution, impurity), in Aeschines • objects banned from sanctuaries, pollution • pollution • pollution, metaphysical • pollution/miasma • sacrifice, animal, wrong incurs pollution • sex, as source of pollution • supplication, violation of polluting

 Found in books: Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 30, 31, 32; Lateiner and Spatharas (2016), The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, 143; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 89, 168; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 32, 41, 43, 51, 269, 290; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 204

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238 οἷς δʼ ὕβρις τε μέμηλε κακὴ καὶ σχέτλια ἔργα,'239 τοῖς δὲ δίκην Κρονίδης τεκμαίρεται εὐρύοπα Ζεύς. 240 πολλάκι καὶ ξύμπασα πόλις κακοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀπηύρα, 241 ὅς κεν ἀλιτραίνῃ καὶ ἀτάσθαλα μηχανάαται. 242 τοῖσιν δʼ οὐρανόθεν μέγʼ ἐπήγαγε πῆμα Κρονίων 243 λιμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ λοιμόν· ἀποφθινύθουσι δὲ λαοί. 244 οὐδὲ γυναῖκες τίκτουσιν, μινύθουσι δὲ οἶκοι 245 Ζηνὸς φραδμοσύνῃσιν Ὀλυμπίου· ἄλλοτε δʼ αὖτε 246 ἢ τῶν γε στρατὸν εὐρὺν ἀπώλεσεν ἢ ὅ γε τεῖχος 247 ἢ νέας ἐν πόντῳ Κρονίδης ἀποαίνυται αὐτῶν.
706 εὖ δʼ ὄπιν ἀθανάτων μακάρων πεφυλαγμένος εἶναι.
718 τέτλαθʼ ὀνειδίζειν, μακάρων δόσιν αἰὲν ἐόντων.
724 μηδέ ποτʼ ἐξ ἠοῦς Διὶ λειβέμεν αἴθοπα οἶνον 725 χερσὶν ἀνίπτοισιν μηδʼ ἄλλοις ἀθανάτοισιν· 726 οὐ γὰρ τοί γε κλύουσιν, ἀποπτύουσι δέ τʼ ἀράς.
729 μήτʼ ἐν ὁδῷ μήτʼ ἐκτὸς ὁδοῦ προβάδην οὐρήσῃς 730 μηδʼ ἀπογυμνωθείς· μακάρων τοι νύκτες ἔασιν·
733 μηδʼ αἰδοῖα γονῇ πεπαλαγμένος ἔνδοθι οἴκου 734 ἱστίῃ ἐμπελαδὸν παραφαινέμεν, ἀλλʼ ἀλέασθαι. 735 μηδʼ ἀπὸ δυσφήμοιο τάφου ἀπονοστήσαντα 736 σπερμαίνειν γενεήν, ἀλλʼ ἀθανάτων ἀπὸ δαιτός.
738 ποσσὶ περᾶν, πρίν γʼ εὔξῃ ἰδὼν ἐς καλὰ ῥέεθρα, 739 χεῖρας νιψάμενος πολυηράτῳ ὕδατι λευκῷ. 740 ὃς ποταμὸν διαβῇ κακότητʼ ἰδὲ χεῖρας ἄνιπτος, 741 τῷ δὲ θεοὶ νεμεσῶσι καὶ ἄλγεα δῶκαν ὀπίσσω.
757 μηδέ ποτʼ ἐν προχοῇς ποταμῶν ἅλαδε προρεόντων 758 μηδʼ ἐπὶ κρηνάων οὐρεῖν, μάλα δʼ ἐξαλέασθαι· 759 μηδʼ ἐναποψύχειν· τὸ γὰρ οὔ τοι λώιόν ἐστιν. ' None		sup>
238 Woe to the wicked men who ousted her.'239 The city and its folk are burgeoning, 240 However, when to both the foreigner 241 And citizen are given judgments fair 242 And honest, children grow in amity, 243 Far-seeing Zeus sends them no dread warfare, 244 And decent men suffer no scarcity 245 of food, no ruin, as they till their field 246 And feast; abundance reigns upon the earth; 247 Each mountaintop a wealth of acorns yields,
706 of Greeks here waited out the stormy gale,
718 With ships for me to this has been confined.
724 Seafarers slaughter, nor will any man 725 Shatter his ship, unless such is the will 726 of earth-shaking Poseidon or our king,
729 The winds. Trust these and drag down to the sea 730 Your ship with confidence and place all freight
733 Or fast-approaching blizzards, new-made wine, 734 The South Wind’s dreadful blasts – he stirs the sea 735 And brings downpours in spring and makes the brine 736 Inclement. Spring, too, grants humanity
738 On fig-tree-tops, as tiny as the mark 739 A raven leaves, the sea becomes serene 740 For sailing. Though spring bids you to embark, 741 I’ll not praise it – it does not gladden me.
757 Marry a maid. The best would be one who 758 Lives near you, but you must with care look round 759 Lest neighbours make a laughingstock of you. ' None
8. None, None, nan (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • death and the afterlife, pollution and purification • pollution

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 399; Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 265
9. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 209-210, 228-247, 1428 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Agamemnon, polluted • Clytemnestra, polluted, as pollution • Orestes, polluted • blood, and pollution • matricide, resulting in pollution • pollution, attaching meaning • pollution, external • pollution, metaphysical • supplication, violation of polluting • women, physiological change and pollution

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 525; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 121, 126, 127; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 173, 228, 233

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228 λιτὰς δὲ καὶ κληδόνας πατρῴους 229 παρʼ οὐδὲν αἰῶ τε παρθένειον 230 ἔθεντο φιλόμαχοι βραβῆς. 231 φράσεν δʼ ἀόζοις πατὴρ μετʼ εὐχὰν 232 δίκαν χιμαίρας ὕπερθε βωμοῦ 233 πέπλοισι περιπετῆ παντὶ θυμῷ προνωπῆ' '235 λαβεῖν ἀέρδην, στόματός 236 τε καλλιπρῴρου φυλακᾷ κατασχεῖν 238 βίᾳ χαλινῶν τʼ ἀναύδῳ μένει. 239 κρόκου βαφὰς δʼ ἐς πέδον χέουσα 240 ἔβαλλʼ ἕκαστον θυτήρ- 241 ων ἀπʼ ὄμματος βέλει 242 φιλοίκτῳ, πρέπουσά θʼ ὡς ἐν γραφαῖς, προσεννέπειν 243 θέλουσʼ, ἐπεὶ πολλάκις 244 πατρὸς κατʼ ἀνδρῶνας εὐτραπέζους 245 ἔμελψεν, ἁγνᾷ δʼ ἀταύρωτος αὐδᾷ πατρὸς 246 φίλου τριτόσπονδον εὔ- 247 ποτμον παιῶνα φίλως ἐτίμα— Χορός
1428 λίπος ἐπʼ ὀμμάτων αἵματος εὖ πρέπει·'' None		sup>
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228 Prayings and callings 229 of these, and of the virgin-age, — 230 Captains heart-set on war to wage! 231 His ministrants, vows done, the father bade — 232 Kid-like, above the altar, swathed in pall, 233 Take her — lift high, and have no fear at all, 234 Head-downward, and the fair mouth’s guard 235 And frontage hold, — press hard 236 From utterance a curse against the House 238 By dint of bit-violence bridling speech. 239 And as to ground her saffron-vest she shed, 240 She smote the sacrificers all and each 241 From the eye only sped, — 241 With arrow sweet and piteous, 242 Just as in pictures: since, full many a time, 242 Significant of will to use a word, 243 In her sire’s guest-hall, by the well-heaped board 244 Had she made music, — lovingly with chime 245 of her chaste voice, that unpolluted thing, 246 Honoured the third libation, — paian that should bring 247 Good fortune to the sire she loved so well.
1428 Is frantic) that over the eyes, a patch
1428 Is plain for a pride! '
1428 of blood — with blood to match — ' None
10. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 48, 944, 1027-1028 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Agamemnon, polluted • Clytemnestra, polluted, as pollution • Hades, polluted • Orestes, polluted • blood, and pollution • dike, and pollution • matricide, resulting in pollution • pollution, and dike • pollution, and guilt • pollution, attaching meaning • pollution, external • pollution, metaphysical, and killing

 Found in books: Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 135; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 133, 147, 222; Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 199

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48 τί γὰρ λύτρον πεσόντος αἵματος πέδοι;
944 ὑπαὶ δυοῖν μιαστόροιν,
944 ὑπαὶ δυοῖν μιαστόροιν,
1027 κτανεῖν τέ φημι μητέρʼ οὐκ ἄνευ δίκης,'1028 πατροκτόνον μίασμα καὶ θεῶν στύγος. ' None		sup>
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!
944 Oh raise a shout of triumph over the escape of our master’s house from its misery and the wasting of its wealth by two who were unclean,
1027 But while I am still in my senses, I proclaim to those who hold me dear and declare that not without justice did I slay my mother, the unclean murderess of my father, and a thing loathed by the gods. And for the spells that gave me the courage for this deed I count Loxias, the prophet of Pytho, '1028 But while I am still in my senses, I proclaim to those who hold me dear and declare that not without justice did I slay my mother, the unclean murderess of my father, and a thing loathed by the gods. And for the spells that gave me the courage for this deed I count Loxias, the prophet of Pytho, ' None
11. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Hades, polluted • Orestes, polluted • dike, and pollution • pollution, and dike • pollution, metaphysical, and killing

 Found in books: Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 124, 134, 135; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 147; Shilo (2022), Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics, 198, 199, 200
12. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • boundaries, and purity/pollution • pollution, and otherness • pollution, metaphysical • supplication, violation of polluting • virginity, and pollution

 Found in books: Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 195, 199, 201; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 169, 171, 172
13. Euripides, Electra, 654, 1126, 1355 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Draco, feigning pollution • matricide, resulting in pollution • miaros (pollution, impurity), and homicide • pollution • pollution, external • pollution, metaphysical

 Found in books: Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 297; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 43; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 142; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 228, 233, 234

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654 δέχ' ἡλίους, ἐν οἷσιν ἁγνεύει λεχώ." 1126 δεκάτῃ σελήνῃ παιδὸς ὡς νομίζεται:1355 μηδ' ἐπιόρκων μέτα συμπλείτω:" "" None		sup>
654 Ten days ago, in which a woman who has given birth stays pure. Old man
1126 in thanks for this, please sacrifice—for I do not know how—on the tenth day, as is the custom for the child. For I have no experience, being childless before. Clytemnestra1355 or set sail with perjurers; as a god, I give this address to mortals. Choru ' None
14. Euripides, Hippolytus, 32, 317 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • childbirth as a source of pollution • desire, and pollution • inherited evil, and pollution • pollution, and desire • pollution, and inherited evil • pollution, and the female body • pollution, of the mind • sex, as source of pollution • transmission (of pollution), through words

 Found in books: Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 26, 27, 34, 35, 37, 43, 44; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 213

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32 ἐρῶς' ἔρωτ' ἔκδημον, ̔Ιππολύτῳ δ' ἔπι" "
317 χεῖρες μὲν ἁγναί, φρὴν δ' ἔχει μίασμά τι."" None		sup>
32 a temple did she rear to Cypris hard by the rock of Pallas where it o’erlooks this country, for love of the youth in another land; and to win his love in days to come she called after his name the temple she had founded for the goddess.
317 My hands are pure, but on my soul there rests a stain. Nurse'' None
15. Euripides, Orestes, 46-48, 75-76, 481, 517, 597-598, 1604 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • childbirth as a source of pollution • matricide, resulting in pollution • pollution, and social exclusion • pollution, of the mind • sex, as source of pollution • supplication, violation of polluting

 Found in books: Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 144, 178; Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 87; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 213, 219, 220, 221, 225

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46 ἔδοξε δ' ̓́Αργει τῷδε μήθ' ἡμᾶς στέγαις," '47 μὴ πυρὶ δέχεσθαι, μήτε προσφωνεῖν τινα' "48 μητροκτονοῦντας: κυρία δ' ἥδ' ἡμέρα," 75 προσφθέγμασιν γὰρ οὐ μιαίνομαι σέθεν, 76 ἐς Φοῖβον ἀναφέρουσα τὴν ἁμαρτίαν.' "
481 Μενέλαε, προσφθέγγῃ νιν, ἀνόσιον κάρα;
517 τὸ λοίσθιον μίασμα λαμβάνων χεροῖν.
597 ἢ οὐκ ἀξιόχρεως ὁ θεὸς ἀναφέροντί μοι' "598 μίασμα λῦσαι; ποῖ τις οὖν ἔτ' ἂν φύγοι," 1604 ἁγνὸς γάρ εἰμι χεῖρας. ἀλλ' οὐ τὰς φρένας."" None		sup>
46 at other times he bounds headlong from his couch, as a colt when it is loosed from the yoke. This city of Argos has decreed that no man give us shelter in home or hearth, or speak to matricides like us; and this is the fateful day on which the Argives will take a vote,
75 For referring the sin as I do to Phoebus, I incur no pollution by addressing you; and yet I am truly sorry for the death of my sister Clytemnestra, whom I never saw after I was driven by heaven-sent frenzy to sail as I did to Ilium ;
481 Menelaus, are you speaking to that godless wretch? Menelau
517 but they purified him by exile, they did not kill him in revenge. Otherwise someone, by taking the pollution last upon his hands, is always going to be liable to have his own blood shed.
597 Find him guilty of the crime, slay him; his was the sin, not mine. What ought I to have done? or is the god not competent to expiate the pollution when I refer it to him? Where then should anyone flee, if he will not rescue me from death after giving his commands?
1604 Yes, my hands are clean. Oreste'' None
16. Herodotus, Histories, 2.64, 7.132, 9.34 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • death as source of pollution • pollution (miasma) • pollution (miasma), of community

 Found in books: Kowalzig (2007), Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece, 138, 277; Mikalson (2003), Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, 120, 178; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 27

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2.64 καὶ τὸ μὴ μίσγεσθαι γυναιξὶ ἐν ἱροῖσι μηδὲ ἀλούτους ἀπὸ γυναικῶν ἐς ἱρὰ ἐσιέναι οὗτοι εἰσὶ οἱ πρῶτοι θρησκεύσαντες. οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἄλλοι σχεδὸν πάντες ἄνθρωποι, πλὴν Αἰγυπτίων καὶ Ἑλλήνων, μίσγονται ἐν ἱροῖσι καὶ ἀπὸ γυναικῶν ἀνιστάμενοι ἄλουτοι ἐσέρχονται ἐς ἱρόν, νομίζοντες ἀνθρώπους εἶναι κατά περ τὰ ἄλλα κτήνεα· καὶ γὰρ τὰ ἄλλα κτήνεα ὁρᾶν καὶ ὀρνίθων γένεα ὀχευόμενα ἔν τε τοῖσι νηοῖσι τῶν θεῶν καὶ ἐν τοῖσι τεμένεσι· εἰ ὦν εἶναι τῷ θεῷ τοῦτο μὴ φίλον, οὐκ ἂν οὐδὲ τὰ κτήνεα ποιέειν. οὗτοι μέν νυν τοιαῦτα ἐπιλέγοντες ποιεῦσι ἔμοιγε οὐκ ἀρεστά·
7.132 τῶν δὲ δόντων ταῦτα ἐγένοντο οἵδε, Θεσσαλοὶ Δόλοπες Ἐνιῆνες Περραιβοὶ Λοκροὶ Μάγνητες Μηλιέες Ἀχαιοὶ οἱ Φθιῶται καὶ Θηβαῖοι καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι Βοιωτοὶ πλὴν Θεσπιέων τε καὶ Πλαταιέων. ἐπὶ τούτοισι οἱ Ἕλληνες ἔταμον ὅρκιον οἱ τῷ βαρβάρῳ πόλεμον ἀειράμενοι· τὸ δὲ ὅρκιον ὧδε εἶχε, ὅσοι τῷ Πέρσῃ ἔδοσαν σφέας αὐτοὺς Ἕλληνες ἐόντες μὴ ἀναγκασθέντες, καταστάντων σφι εὖ τῶν πρηγμάτων, τούτους δεκατεῦσαι τῷ ἐν Δελφοῖσι θεῷ. τὸ μὲν δὴ ὅρκιον ὧδε εἶχε τοῖσι Ἕλλησι.
9.34 ταῦτα δὲ λέγων οὗτος ἐμιμέετο Μελάμποδα, ὡς εἰκάσαι βασιληίην τε καὶ πολιτηίην αἰτεομένους. καὶ γὰρ δὴ καὶ Μελάμπους τῶν ἐν Ἄργεϊ γυναικῶν μανεισέων, ὥς μιν οἱ Ἀργεῖοι ἐμισθοῦντο ἐκ Πύλου παῦσαι τὰς σφετέρας γυναῖκας τῆς νούσου, μισθὸν προετείνατο τῆς βασιληίης τὸ ἥμισυ. οὐκ ἀνασχομένων δὲ τῶν Ἀργείων ἀλλʼ ἀπιόντων, ὡς ἐμαίνοντο πλεῦνες τῶν γυναικῶν, οὕτω δὴ ὑποστάντες τὰ ὁ Μελάμπους προετείνατο ἤισαν δώσοντές οἱ ταῦτα. ὁ δὲ ἐνθαῦτα δὴ ἐπορέγεται ὁρέων αὐτοὺς τετραμμένους, φάς, ἢν μὴ καὶ τῷ ἀδελφεῷ Βίαντι μεταδῶσι τὸ τριτημόριον τῆς βασιληίης, οὐ ποιήσειν τὰ βούλονται. οἱ δὲ Ἀργεῖοι ἀπειληθέντες ἐς στεινὸν καταινέουσι καὶ ταῦτα.'' None		sup>
2.64 Furthermore, it was the Egyptians who first made it a matter of religious observance not to have intercourse with women in temples or to enter a temple after such intercourse without washing. Nearly all other peoples are less careful in this matter than are the Egyptians and Greeks, and consider a man to be like any other animal; ,for beasts and birds (they say) are seen to mate both in the temples and in the sacred precincts; now were this displeasing to the god, the beasts would not do so. This is the reason given by others for practices which I, for my part, dislike;
7.132 Among those who paid that tribute were the Thessalians, Dolopes, Enienes, Perrhaebians, Locrians, Magnesians, Melians, Achaeans of Phthia, Thebans, and all the Boeotians except the men of Thespiae and Plataea. ,Against all of these the Greeks who declared war with the foreigner entered into a sworn agreement, which was this: that if they should be victorious, they would dedicate to the god of Delphi the possessions of all Greeks who had of free will surrendered themselves to the Persians. Such was the agreement sworn by the Greeks.
9.34 By so saying he imitated Melampus, in so far as one may compare demands for kingship with those for citizenship. For when the women of Argos had gone mad, and the Argives wanted him to come from Pylos and heal them of that madness, Melampus demanded half of their kingship for his wages. ,This the Argives would not put up with and departed. When, however, the madness spread among their women, they promised what Melampus demanded and were ready to give it to him. Thereupon, seeing their purpose changed, he demanded yet more and said that he would not do their will except if they gave a third of their kingship to his brother Bias; now driven into dire straits, the Argives consented to that also. '' None
17. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Pythagoras and Pythagoreans, on pollution • childbirth as a source of pollution • dead, the, pollution caused by • death as source of pollution • homicide, pollution from • pollution • pollution, Pythagoreans on • pollution, and funerals • pollution, and religious correctness • pollution, and the dead • pollution, of sanctuaries • pollution/miasma • sanctuaries, pollution of

 Found in books: Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 65, 166; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 17; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 127

716e βίον καὶ δὴ καὶ διαφερόντως πρέπον, τῷ δὲ κακῷ τούτων τἀναντία πέφυκεν. ΑΘ. ἀκάθαρτος γὰρ τὴν ψυχὴν ὅ γε κακός, καθαρὸς δὲ ὁ ἐναντίος, παρὰ δὲ μιαροῦ δῶρα οὔτε'853d δὴ φοβεῖσθαι μή τις ἐγγίγνηται τῶν πολιτῶν ἡμῖν οἷον κερασβόλος, ὃς ἀτεράμων εἰς τοσοῦτον φύσει γίγνοιτʼ ἂν ὥστε μὴ τήκεσθαι· καθάπερ ἐκεῖνα τὰ σπέρματα πυρί, νόμοις οὗτοι καίπερ οὕτως ἰσχυροῖς οὖσιν ἄτηκτοι γίγνωνται. ὧν δὴ χάριν οὐκ ἐπίχαριν λέγοιμʼ ἂν πρῶτον νόμον ἱερῶν περὶ συλήσεων, ἄν τις τοῦτο δρᾶν τολμᾷ. καὶ πολίτην μὲν τῶν τεθραμμένων ὀρθῶς οὔτʼ ἂν βουλοίμεθα οὔτε ἐλπιστὸν πάνυ τι νοσῆσαί ποτε ἂν ταύτην τὴν νόσον, οἰκέται δὲ ἂν τούτων καὶ ξένοι καὶ ξένων δοῦλοι πολλὰ ἂν ἐπιχειρήσειαν τοιαῦτα· ΑΘ. ὧν ἕνεκα μὲν μάλιστα, ὅμως δὲ καὶ σύμπασαν τὴν ' None716e but for the wicked, the very opposite. Ath. For the wicked man is unclean of soul, whereas the good man is clean; and from him that is defiled no good man, nor god, can ever rightly receive gifts.'853d and attain to such hardness of temper as to be beyond melting; and just as those horn-struck beans cannot be softened by boiling on the fire, so these men should be uninfluenced by laws, however powerful. So, for the sake of these gentlemen, no very gentle law shall be stated first concerning temple-robbery, in case anyone dares to commit this crime. That a rightly nurtured citizen should be infected with this disease is a thing that we should neither desire nor expect; but such attempts might often be made by their servants, and by foreigners or foreigners’ slaves. Ath. Chiefly, then, on their account, and also as a precaution against ' None
18. Plato, Minos, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Theophrastus, and pollution • pollution • pollution, Theophrastus on

 Found in books: Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 256; Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 145

315c καὶ νόμιμον αὐτοῖς, καὶ ταῦτα ἔνιοι αὐτῶν καὶ τοὺς αὑτῶν ὑεῖς τῷ Κρόνῳ, ὡς ἴσως καὶ σὺ ἀκήκοας. καὶ μὴ ὅτι βάρβαροι ἄνθρωποι ἡμῶν ἄλλοις νόμοις χρῶνται, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ ἐν τῇ Λυκαίᾳ οὗτοι καὶ οἱ τοῦ Ἀθάμαντος ἔκγονοι οἵας θυσίας θύουσιν Ἕλληνες ὄντες. ὥσπερ καὶ ἡμᾶς αὐτοὺς οἶσθά που καὶ αὐτὸς ἀκούων οἵοις νόμοις ἐχρώμεθα πρὸ τοῦ περὶ τοὺς ἀποθανόντας, ἱερεῖά τε προσφάττοντες πρὸ τῆς ἐκφορᾶς τοῦ νεκροῦ καὶ ἐγχυτιστρίας μεταπεμπόμενοι· οἱ'' None315c whereas the Carthaginians perform it as a thing they account holy and legal, and that too when some of them sacrifice even their own sons to Cronos, as I daresay you yourself have heard. And not merely is it foreign peoples who use different laws from ours, but our neighbors in Lycaea and the descendants of Athamas —you know their sacrifices, Greeks though they be. And as to ourselves too, you know, of course, from what you have heard yourself, the kind of laws we formerly used in regard to our dead, when we slaughtered sacred victims before'' None
19. Sophocles, Antigone, 773-776, 1015-1022, 1039-1044, 1068-1071 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Euripides, on human pollution • Heracles (Euripides), on human pollution • Tiresias, not naming pollution • corpse as source of pollution • gods, not reached by pollution • pollution emanating from corpse • pollution, and categorisation • pollution, human • pollution, limited, defined • pollution, nameless • pollution, of Thebes • pollution, transgressive • transgression, pollution transgressive

 Found in books: Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 398, 399, 750; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 96, 101, 102, 103, 104, 107; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 177, 178, 179

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773 I will take her where the path is deserted, unvisited by men, and entomb her alive in a rocky vault, 775 etting out a ration of food, but only as much as piety requires so that all the city may escape defilement. And praying there to Hades, the only god she worships, perhaps she will obtain immunity from death, or else will learn, at last, even this late,
1015 And it is your will that is the source of the sickness now afflicting the city. For the altars of our city and our hearths have one and all been tainted by the birds and dogs with the carrion taken from the sadly fallen son of Oedipus. And so the gods no more accept prayer and sacrifice at our hands,'1016 And it is your will that is the source of the sickness now afflicting the city. For the altars of our city and our hearths have one and all been tainted by the birds and dogs with the carrion taken from the sadly fallen son of Oedipus. And so the gods no more accept prayer and sacrifice at our hands, 1020 or the burning of thigh-meat, nor does any bird sound out clear signs in its shrill cries, for they have tasted the fatness of a slain man’s blood. Think, therefore, on these things, my son. All men are liable to err.
1039 even from the plottings of the seer’s divine art, but by their tribe I have long been bought and sold and made their merchandise. Turn your profits, make your deals for the white gold of Sardis and the gold of India , if it pleases you, but you shall not cover that man with a grave, 1040 not even if the eagles of Zeus wish to snatch and carry him to be devoured at the god’s throne. No, not even then, for fear of that defilement will I permit his burial, since I know with certainty that no mortal has the power to defile the gods.
1068 courses of the sun’s swift chariot, before you will give in return one sprung from your own loins, a corpse in requital for corpses. For you have thrust below one of those of the upper air and irreverently lodged a living soul in the grave, 1070 while you detain in this world that which belongs to the infernal gods, a corpse unburied, unmourned, unholy. In the dead you have no part, nor do the gods above, but in this you do them violence. For these crimes the avenging destroyers, ' None
20. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 96-101 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Clytemnestra, polluted, as pollution • Pollution • Tiresias, naming pollution • blood, and pollution • oracle, Delphi, announcing pollution • pollution, (in)visibility of • pollution, Oedipus • pollution, and person, distinction between • pollution, as system of explanation • pollution, external • understanding of misfortune, through words, provided by concept of pollution

 Found in books: Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 52, 53, 54, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66; Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 25

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96 I will tell you what I heard from the god. Phoebus our lord clearly commands us to drive out the defilement which he said was harbored in this land, and not to nourish it so that it cannot be healed. Oedipu 99 With what sort of purification? What is the manner of the misfortune? Creon 100 By banishing the man, or by paying back bloodshed with bloodshed, since it is this blood which brings the tempest on our city. Oedipu'101 By banishing the man, or by paying back bloodshed with bloodshed, since it is this blood which brings the tempest on our city. Oedipu ' None
21. Xenophon, Memoirs, 3.8.10 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • pollution, metaphysical • pollution, of sanctuaries • sanctuaries, pollution of

 Found in books: Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 133; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 62

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3.8.10 ὡς δὲ συνελόντι εἰπεῖν, ὅποι πάσας ὥρας αὐτός τε ἂν ἥδιστα καταφεύγοι καὶ τὰ ὄντα ἀσφαλέστατα τιθοῖτο, αὕτη ἂν εἰκότως ἡδίστη τε καὶ καλλίστη οἴκησις εἴη· γραφαὶ δὲ καὶ ποικιλίαι πλείονας εὐφροσύνας ἀποστεροῦσιν ἢ παρέχουσι. ναοῖς γε μὴν καὶ βωμοῖς χώραν ἔφη εἶναι πρεπωδεστάτην ἥτις ἐμφανεστάτη οὖσα ἀστιβεστάτη εἴη· ἡδὺ μὲν γὰρ ἰδόντας προσεύξασθαι, ἡδὺ δὲ ἁγνῶς ἔχοντας προσιέναι.'' None		sup>
3.8.10 To put it shortly, the house in which the owner can find a pleasant retreat at all seasons and can store his belongings safely is presumably at once the pleasantest and the most beautiful. As for paintings and decorations, they rob one of more delights than they give. For temples and altars the most suitable position, he said, was a conspicuous site remote from traffic; for it is pleasant to breathe a prayer at the sight of them, and pleasant to approach them filled with holy thoughts. '' None
22. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • miaros (pollution, impurity), and homicide • oracle, Dodona, and pollution • pollution, as system of explanation • understanding of misfortune, through words, provided by concept of pollution

 Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 43; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 19, 20; Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 61, 62, 63, 64; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 61, 62, 63, 64; Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 225
23. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • childbirth as a source of pollution • corpse as source of pollution, not polluting in comedy • death as source of pollution

 Found in books: Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 234; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 242
24. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Iphigenia, on pollution • miaros (pollution, impurity), Aeschines • miaros (pollution, impurity), spreading pollution • pollution, ritual • pollution, ritual, language of

 Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 99, 101; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 159; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 134
25. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • death and the afterlife, pollution and purification • miaros (pollution, impurity), in Aeschines • pollution, death • women, physiological change and pollution

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 526; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 170
26. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution

 Found in books: Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 24; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 24
27. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • dead, the, pollution caused by • dedications, and pollution • pollution, and dedications • pollution, and the dead • pollution, metaphysical

 Found in books: Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 98; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 283
28. Anon., Jubilees, 22.16, 30.4-30.5, 30.14 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • pollution • pollution and defilement

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 304, 305, 307, 370; Lieu (2004), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, 111, 193

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22.16 May nations serve thee, And all the nations bow themselves before thy seed.
30.4 And Jacob and his sons were wroth because of the men of Shechem; for they had defiled Dinah, their sister, and they spake to them with evil intent and dealt deceitfully with them and beguiled them. 30.5 And Simeon and Levi came unexpectedly to Shechem and executed judgment on all the men of Shechem, and slew all the men whom they found in it, and left not a single one remaining in it:
30.14 and every man who hath defiled (it) shall surely die: they shall stone him with stones.'' None
29. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution

 Found in books: Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 25; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 25
30. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.13.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • pollution • pollution, hero cults

 Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 390; Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 264

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5.13.3 ἔστι δὲ ὁ ξυλεὺς ἐκ τῶν οἰκετῶν τοῦ Διός, ἔργον δὲ αὐτῷ πρόσκειται τὰ ἐς τὰς θυσίας ξύλα τεταγμένου λήμματος καὶ πόλεσι παρέχειν καὶ ἀνδρὶ ἰδιώτῃ· τὰ δὲ λεύκης μόνης ξύλα καὶ ἄλλου δένδρου ἐστὶν οὐδενός· ὃς δʼ ἂν ἢ αὐτῶν Ἠλείων ἢ ξένων τοῦ θυομένου τῷ Πέλοπι ἱερείου φάγῃ τῶν κρεῶν, οὐκ ἔστιν οἱ ἐσελθεῖν παρὰ τὸν Δία. τὸ δὲ αὐτὸ καὶ ἐν τῇ Περγάμῳ τῇ ὑπὲρ ποταμοῦ Καΐκου πεπόνθασιν οἱ τῷ Τηλέφῳ θύοντες· ἔστι γὰρ δὴ οὐδὲ τούτοις ἀναβῆναι πρὸ λουτροῦ παρὰ τὸν Ἀσκληπιόν.'' None		sup>
5.13.3 The woodman is one of the servants of Zeus, and the task assigned to him is to supply cities and private individuals with wood for sacrifices at a fixed rate, wood of the white poplar, but of no other tree, being allowed. If anybody, whether Elean or stranger, eat of the meat of the victim sacrificed to Pelops, he may not enter the temple of Zeus. The same rule applies to those who sacrifice to Telephus at Pergamus on the river Caicus ; these too may not go up to the temple of Asclepius before they have bathed.'' None
31. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Polluted sacraments • polluted sacraments/cursed mysteries xxxi

 Found in books: Hellholm et al. (2010), Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism: Late Antiquity, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity, 929; Tabbernee (2007), Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism, 351, 352, 357
32. Anon., Joseph And Aseneth, 7.1
 Tagged with subjects: • pollution • pollution and defilement

 Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 370; Lieu (2004), Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World, 116

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7.1 And Joseph came into Pentephres's house and sat down on a seat; and he washed his feet, and he placed a table in front of him separately, because he would not eat with the Egyptians, for this was an abomination to him. "" None
33. Demosthenes, Orations, 19.71, 20.158, 21.115, 23.53-23.55, 23.81, 24.113, 25.54, 43.57-43.58, 43.66, 54.39
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • miaros (pollution, impurity), Aristogiton • miaros (pollution, impurity), Athenians • miaros (pollution, impurity), accusation of • miaros (pollution, impurity), and homicide • miaros (pollution, impurity), disqualifying from public life • miaros (pollution, impurity), in private speeches • miasma, cf. pollution moicheia, moichos, cf. adultery, seduction • pollution • pollution, and social exclusion • pollution/miasma

 Found in books: Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 326, 650; Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 20, 38, 41, 42, 43, 123, 124, 131, 187, 188, 210, 286; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 177; Michalopoulos et al. (2021), The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature, 161; Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 24, 63; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 24, 63; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 23, 36

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19.71 Would you not have acted absurdly and preposterously if today, when the power is in your own hands, you should preclude yourselves from doing what you enjoin, or rather require, the gods to do on your behalf; if you should yourselves release a man whom you have implored them to extirpate along with his household and his kindred? Never! Leave the undetected sinner to the justice of the gods; but about the sinner whom you have caught yourselves, lay no further injunctions on them.
20.158 Now Draco, in this group of laws, marked the terrible wickedness of homicide by banning the offender from the lustral water, the libations, the loving-cup, the sacrifices and the market-place; he enumerated everything that he thought likely to deter the offender; but he never robbed him of his claim to justice; he defined the circumstances that make homicide justifiable and proclaimed the accused in such case free from taint. If, then, your laws can justify homicide, is this fellow’s law to forbid any claim, even a just one, to recompense? Not so, men of Athens !
21.115 he suffered me as head of the Sacred Embassy to lead it in the name of the city to the Nemean shrine of Zeus; he raised no objection when I was chosen with two colleagues to inaugurate the sacrifice to the Dread Goddesses. The Eumenides (Furies), whose sanctuary was a cave under the Areopagus. Would he have allowed all this, if he had had one jot or tittle of proof for the charges that he was trumping up against me? I cannot believe it. So then this is conclusive proof that he was seeking in mere wanton spite to drive me from my native land.
23.53 Read another statute. Statute If a man kill another unintentionally in an athletic contest, or overcoming him in a fight on the highway, or unwittingly in battle, or in intercourse with his wife, or mother, or sister, or daughter, or concubine kept for procreation of legitimate children, he shall not go into exile as a manslayer on that account. Many statutes have been violated, men of Athens, in the drafting of this decree, but none more gravely than that which has just been read. Though the law so clearly gives permission to slay, and states under what conditions, the defendant ignores all those conditions, and has drawn his penal clause without any suggestion as to the manner of the slaying. 23.54 Yet mark how righteously and admirably these distinctions are severally defined by the lawgiver who defined them originally. If a man kill another in an athletic contest, he declared him to be not guilty, for this reason, that he had regard not to the event but to the intention of the agent. That intention is, not to kill his man, but to vanquish him unslain. If the other combatant was too weak to support the struggle for victory, he considered him responsible for his own fate, and therefore provided no retribution on his account. 23.55 Again, if in battle unwittingly —the man who so slays is free of bloodguiltiness. Good: If I have destroyed a man supposing him to be one of the enemy, I deserve, not to stand trial, but to be forgiven. Or in intercourse with his wife, or mother, or sister, or daughter, or concubine kept for the procreation of legitimate children. He lets the man who slays one so treating any of these women go scot-free; and that acquittal, men of Athens, is the most righteous of all.
24.113 And yet Solon, gentlemen of the jury,—and even Timocrates cannot pretend to be a legislator of the same calibre as Solon,—so far from providing such defaulters with the means of swindling in security, actually introduced a law to ensure that they should either refrain from crime or be adequately punished. For a theft in day-time of more than fifty drachmas a man might be arrested summarily and put into custody of the Eleven. If he stole anything, however small, by night, the person aggrieved might lawfully pursue and kill or wound him, or else put him into the hands of the Eleven, at his own option. A man found guilty of an offence for which arrest is lawful was not allowed to put in bail and refund the stolen money; no, the penalty was death.
25.54 The sequel too, men of Athens, is worth hearing. What you have just heard from Lycurgus is serious, or, rather, impossible to exaggerate, but the rest will be found to rival it and to be of the same character. Not content with abandoning his father in prison when he quitted Eretria, as you have heard from Phaedrus, this unnatural ruffian refused to bury him when he died, and would not refund the expenses to those who did bury him, but actually brought a law-suit against them.
43.57 Proclamation shall be made in the market-place to the shedder of blood by a kinsman within the degree of cousin and cousinship, and cousins and sons of cousins and sons-in-law and fathers-in-law and clansmen shall join in the pursuit. To secure condonation, if there be father or brother or sons, all must concur, or whoever opposes shall prevail. And if there be none of these and the slaying was involuntary, and the Fifty-one, the Ephetae, The Ephetae formed a court of fifty-one nobles (Eupatridae) having jurisdiction over cases of homicide. See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 57, with Sandys’s note. shall agree that the slaying was involuntary, let the clansmen, ten in number, grant the right of entrance to the shedder of blood, if they see fit; and let these be chosen by the Fifty-one according to rank. And those who had shed blood before the enactment of this statute shall be bound by its provisions.—And when persons die in the demes and no one takes them up for burial, let the Demarch give notice to the relatives to take them up and bury them, and to purify the deme on the day on which each of them dies. 43.58 In the case of slaves he shall give notice to their masters, and in the case of freemen to those possessing their property; and if the deceased had no property, the Demarch shall give notice to the relatives of the deceased. And if, after the Demarch shall have given notice, the relatives do not take up the body, the Demarch shall contract for the taking up and burial of the body, and for the purification of the deme on the same day at the lowest possible cost. And if he shall not so contract, he shall be bound to pay a thousand drachmae into the public treasury. And whatsoever he shall expend, he shall exact double the amount from those liable; and if he does not exact it he shall himself be under obligation to repay it to the demesmen. And those who do not pay the rents due for the lands of the goddess or of the gods and the eponymous heroes shall be disenfranchised, themselves and their family and their heirs, until they shall make payment.
43.66 (To the clerk.) Now please read the words of the oracle brought from Delphi, from the shrine of the god, that you may see that it speaks in the same terms concerning relatives as do the laws of Solon. Oracle May good fortune attend you. The people of the Athenians make inquiry about the sign which has appeared in the heavens, asking what the Athenians should do, or to what god they should offer sacrifice or make prayer, in order that the issue of the sign may be for their advantage. It will be well for the Athenians with reference to the sign which has appeared in the heavens that they sacrifice with happy auspices to Zeus most high, to Athena most high, to Heracles, to Apollo the deliverer, and that they send due offerings to the Amphiones; Possibly, Amphion and Zethus; but their tomb was near Thebes . See Paus. 9.17.4 that they sacrifice for good fortune to Apollo, god of the ways, to Leto and to Artemis, and that they make the streets steam with the savour of sacrifice; that they set forth bowls of wine and institute choruses and wreathe themselves with garlands after the custom of their fathers, in honor of all the Olympian gods and goddesses, lifting up the right hand and the left, and that they be mindful to bring gifts of thanksgiving after the custom of their fathers. And ye shall offer sacrificial gifts after the custom of your fathers to the hero-founder after whom ye are named; and for the dead their relatives shall make offerings on the appointed day according to established custom.
54.39 The contempt, however, which this fellow feels for all sacred things I must tell you about; for I have been forced to make inquiry. For I hear, then, men of the jury, that a certain Bacchius, who was condemned to death in your court, and Aristocrates, the man with the bad eyes, and certain others of the same stamp, and with them this man Conon , were intimates when they were youths, and bore the nickname Triballi The Triballi were a wild Thracian people. Many parallels for the use of the name to denote a club of lawless youths at Athens might be cited. Sandys refers to the Mohock club of eighteenth century London . ; and that these men used to devour the food set out for Hecatê The witch-goddess worshipped at cross roads. Portions of victims which had served for purification were set out for her. To take and eat this food might connote extreme poverty, but suggested also an utter disregard for sacred things. and to gather up on each occasion for their dinner with one another the testicles of the pigs which are offered for purification when the assembly convenes, Young pigs were sacrificed in a ceremonial purification of the place of meeting before the people entered the ἐκκλησία (the popular assembly). and that they thought less of swearing and perjuring themselves than of anything else in the world.' ' None
34. Epigraphy, Ig I , 104
 Tagged with subjects: • miasma, cf. pollution moicheia, moichos, cf. adultery, seduction • pollution

 Found in books: Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 13, 322; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 36

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104 Diognetos of Phrearrhioi was secretary. Decree of 409/8 Diokles was archon (409/8). The Council and the People decided. AkamantisV was in prytany. Diognetos was secretary. Euthydikos was chairman. –phanes proposed: (5) the inscribers or writers-up (anagraphes) of the laws shall inscribe (anagraphsanton) Draco’s law on homicide, taking it over from the king (basileos), with the secretary of the Council, on a stone stele and set it down in front of the royal stoa (stoas tes basileias). The official sellers (poletai) shall make the contract in accordance with the law, and the Greek treasurers (hellenotamiai) shall provide the money. “Draco’s law” (10) First axon. And or Even if anybody kills anybody not from forethought, he shall be exiled. The kings (basileas) shall pronounce responsible (dikazen) for homicide the one who himself killed or the one? who planned it; the appeal judges (ephetas) shall decide it (diagnonai). There shall be reconciliation (aidesasthai), if there are a father or brother or sons, to be granted by all, or the objector shall prevail. If these (15) do not exist, then as far as cousinhood and cousin, if they are all willing to grant reconciliation, or the objector shall prevail. If none of these exists but he killed unwillingly and the fifty-one appeal judges (ephetai) decide that he killed unwillingly, let ten members of the phratry allow him to enter if they are willing: let these be chosen by the fifty-one on the basis of their excellence (aristinden). And those who killed (20) previously shall be liable to this ordice. There shall be a proclamation against the killer in the agora by those as far as cousinhood and cousin; there shall join in the prosecution cousins and cousins’ sons and brothers-in-law and fathers-in-law and phratry members . . . is responsible for homicide . . . the fifty- (25) one . . . convict of homicide . . . If anybody kills a killer, or is responsible for his being killed, when he is keeping away from a frontier market and Amphiktyonic contests and rites, he shall be liable to the same things as for killing an Athenian; the appeal judges (ephetas) shall decide . . . (36) . . . he is a free man. And if he kills a man by defending immediately when the man is forcibly and unjustly taking and removing, that man shall have been killed without penalty . . . . . . (56) Second axon. . . . text from Attic Inscriptions Online, IG I3
104 - Decree to republish Draco’s law on homicide '' None
35. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution

 Found in books: Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 33; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 33
36. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution

 Found in books: Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 64; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 64
37. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • animals, polluting • death as source of pollution • polluting • pollution, metaphysical • sex, as source of pollution • sexual intercourse, polluting • supplication, violation of polluting

 Found in books: Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 15, 212; Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 171; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 282, 283
38. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • abortion, polluting • agos, as metaphysical pollution • animals, polluting • childbirth, polluting • crisis, embedded, and pollution • death, polluting • food, polluting • menstruation, polluting • polluting • pollution • pollution, and embedded crises • pollution, metaphysical • sexual intercourse, polluting • women, pollution and

 Found in books: Connelly (2007), Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, 337; Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 263; Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 15, 76, 77, 78, 79, 210, 211, 212, 213; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 9; Papaioannou et al. (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 33; Papaioannou, Serafim and Demetriou (2021), Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome, 33; Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 170, 171; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 34
39. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • Pollution • abortion, polluting • childbirth as a source of pollution • childbirth, polluting • corpse as source of pollution • crisis, embedded, and pollution • death as source of pollution • food, polluting • polluting • pollution • pollution, and embedded crises • sex, as source of pollution • sexual intercourse, polluting • women, pollution and

 Found in books: Connelly (2007), Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, 337; Lupu (2005), Greek Sacred Law: A Collection of New Documents (NGSL) 77, 78, 79, 209, 211, 212, 213; Meinel (2015), Pollution and Crisis in Greek Tragedy, 9; Peels (2016), Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety, 171; Petrovic and Petrovic (2016), Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion, 20, 27, 59
40. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • miasma, cf. pollution moicheia, moichos, cf. adultery, seduction • pollution

 Found in books: Humphreys (2018), Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis, 13, 322; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 36
41. None, None, nan
 Tagged with subjects: • miaros (pollution, impurity), Andocides • pollution/miasma

 Found in books: Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 144; Riess (2012), Performing interpersonal violence: court, curse, and comedy in fourth-century BCE Athens, 127



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