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subject	book bibliographic info
saturnalia	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 334 Binder (2012), Tertullian, on Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah: Questioning the Parting of the Ways Between Christians and Jews, 117, 118, 119, 120, 223 Bremmer (2008), Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible, and the Ancient Near East, 83 Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 177, 178, 257 Eckhardt (2011), Jewish Identity and Politics Between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba: Groups, Normativity, and Rituals. 190, 192 Edmondson (2008), Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture, 24, 41, 110, 219 Eliav (2023), A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse: Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean, 126, 130, 190 Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 39 KÃ¶nig (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 199, 201 Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 219 Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 30, 60, 93, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153 Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 7, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 37, 60, 61, 63 Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 171 Rüpke (2011), The Roman Calendar from Numa to Constantine Time, History and the Fasti 108, 114, 119, 122, 148, 154 Scott (2023), An Age of Iron and Rust: Cassius Dio and the History of His Time. 164, 175 Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 7, 286, 289 Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 17 Spielman (2020), Jews and Entertainment in the Ancient World. 200 Tacoma (2020), Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship, 29, 39, 52, 59 Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 334 Yona (2018), Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire, 290, 291, 293
saturnalia, domitian, and the	Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 24, 25 Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 24, 25
saturnalia, epictetus, on the	Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 178
saturnalia, king	Bickerman and Tropper (2007), Studies in Jewish and Christian History, 508, 509, 516
saturnalia, macrobius	KÃ¶nig (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 28, 201 Nuno et al. (2021), SENSORIVM: The Senses in Roman Polytheism, 45, 211 Radicke (2022), Roman Women’s Dress: Literary Sources, Terminology, and Historical Development, 322, 323, 326, 327, 328, 329, 336, 362
saturnalia, roman festival	Amsler (2023), Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity, 198
saturnalia, rome	Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 17
saturnalia, temple of	Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 61, 63

List of validated texts:

8 validated results for "saturnalia"

1. Homer, Iliad, 7.475-7.482 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Domitian, and the Saturnalia

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 24; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 24

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7.475 ἄλλοι δʼ ἀνδραπόδεσσι· τίθεντο δὲ δαῖτα θάλειαν. ^7.476 παννύχιοι μὲν ἔπειτα κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοὶ ^7.477 δαίνυντο, Τρῶες δὲ κατὰ πτόλιν ἠδʼ ἐπίκουροι· ^7.478 παννύχιος δέ σφιν κακὰ μήδετο μητίετα Ζεὺς ^7.479 σμερδαλέα κτυπέων· τοὺς δὲ χλωρὸν δέος ᾕρει· ^7.480 οἶνον δʼ ἐκ δεπάων χαμάδις χέον, οὐδέ τις ἔτλη ^7.481 πρὶν πιέειν πρὶν λεῖψαι ὑπερμενέϊ Κρονίωνι. ^7.482 κοιμήσαντʼ ἄρʼ ἔπειτα καὶ ὕπνου δῶρον ἕλοντο.'' None

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7.475 and some for slaves; and they made them a rich feast. So the whole night through the long-haired Achaeans feasted, and the Trojans likewise in the city, and their allies; and all night long Zeus, the counsellor, devised them evil, thundering in terrible wise. Then pale fear gat hold of them, ^7.480 and they let the wine flow from their cups upon the ground, neither durst any man drink until he had made a drink-offering to the son of Cronos, supreme in might. Then they laid them down, and took the gift of sleep. ^7.482 and they let the wine flow from their cups upon the ground, neither durst any man drink until he had made a drink-offering to the son of Cronos, supreme in might. Then they laid them down, and took the gift of sleep. '' None

2. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Saturnalia

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 334; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 334

3. Suetonius, Nero, 31.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Saturnalia

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 334; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 334

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31.1 There was nothing however in which he was more ruinously prodigal than in building. He made a palace extending all the way from the Palatine to the Esquiline, which at first he called the House of Passage, but when it was burned shortly after its completion and rebuilt, the Golden House. Its size and splendour will be sufficiently indicated by the following details. Its vestibule was large enough to contain a colossal statue of the emperor a\xa0hundred and twenty feet high; and it was so extensive that it had a triple colonnade a\xa0mile long. There was a pond too, like a sea, surrounded with buildings to represent cities, besides tracts of country, varied by tilled fields, vineyards, pastures and woods, with great numbers of wild and domestic animals.'' None

4. Tacitus, Annals, 13.15.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Saturnalia

Found in books: Cosgrove (2022), Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity: From the Archaic Period to the Age of Augustine, 177; Shannon-Henderson (2019), Power Play in Latin Love Elegy and its Multiple Forms of Continuity in Ovid’s , 286

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13.15.3 \xa0Perturbed by her attitude, and faced with the approach of the day on which Britannicus completed his fourteenth year, Nero began to revolve, now his mother's proclivity to violence, now the character of his rival, â\x80\x94 lately revealed by a test which, trivial as it was, had gained him wide sympathy. During the festivities of the Saturnalia, while his peers in age were varying their diversions by throwing dice for a king, the lot had fallen upon Nero. On the others he imposed various orders, not likely to put them to the blush: but, when he commanded Britannicus to rise, advance into the centre, and strike up a song â\x80\x94 this, in the hope of turning into derision a boy who knew little of sober, much less of drunken, society â\x80\x94 his victim firmly began a poem hinting at his expulsion from his father's house and throne. His bearing awoke a pity the more obvious that night and revelry had banished dissimulation. Nero, once aware of the feeling aroused, redoubled his hatred; and with Agrippina's threats becoming instant, as he had no grounds for a criminal charge against his brother and dared not openly order his execution, he tried secrecy and gave orders for poison to be prepared, his agent being Julius Pollio, tribune of a praetorian cohort, and responsible for the detention of the condemned poisoner Locusta, whose fame as a criminal stood high. For that no one about the person of Britannicus should regard either right or loyalty was a point long since provided for. The first dose the boy received from his own tutors, but his bowels were opened, and he passed the drug, which either lacked potency or contained a dilution to prevent immediate action. Nero, however, impatient of so much leisure in crime, threatened the tribune and ordered the execution of the poisoner, on the ground that, with their apprehensions of scandal and their preparations for defence, they were delaying his release from anxiety. They now promised that death should be as abrupt as if it were the summary work of steel; and a potion â\x80\x94 its rapidity guaranteed by a private test of the ingredients â\x80\x94 was concocted hard by the Caesar's bedroom. <"" None

5. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Domitian, and the Saturnalia • Saturnalia

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 24, 25; Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 63; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 24, 25

6. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Domitian, and the Saturnalia

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 24, 25; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 24, 25

7. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Saturnalia

Found in books: Augoustakis (2014), Flavian Poetry and its Greek Past, 334; Edmondson (2008), Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture, 110; Romana Berno (2023), Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History, 152; Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 29, 30; Verhagen (2022), Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca, 334

8. None, None, nan (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Saturnalia

Found in books: Roumpou (2023), Ritual and the Poetics of Closure in Flavian Literature. 31; Rutledge (2012), Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting, 171

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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