Impiety and sacrilege
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
impiety · sacrilege · acts of impiety · blasphemous · crime · defilement · holy places · impious · pure · sin
spoken of as
1 expressionSacrilege and impiety1 mention
Against Timocrates (Greek)
for they are guilty of sacrilege, of impiety, of embezzlement, of every monstrous crime.
in the texts
On the Mysteries
Religious wrongdoing, pollution, or sacrilege as a legal accusation and rhetorical category.
Today, on the other hand, I commit a sacrilege and a crime by entering a temple.
No sin shall he commit, no defilement shall he suffer who slays such an one or who conspires to slay him.
They allege that it was I who placed it in the Eleusinium, and that under ancient law the penalty for doing such a thing during the Mysteries is death.
Against Timocrates
Religious wrongdoing associated with destroying dedications and mishandling sacred objects.
for they are guilty of sacrilege, of impiety, of embezzlement, of every monstrous crime.
I hold that the man who is to enter the holy places, to lay hands on the vessels of lustration and the sacrificial baskets, and to become the director of divine worship, ought not to be pure for a prescribed number of days only his whole life should have been kept pure of the habits that have polluted the life of Androtion.
Again, men of Athens, consider those glorious and much-admired inscriptions that he has obliterated for all time, and the strange and blasphemous inscriptions that he has written in their stead.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The religious offense of desecrating sacred objects or rites, the legal category under which the Hermae mutilation and mysteries mockery are investigated.
Moreover, the people voted, that if any one knew any other act of impiety to have been committed, whoever wished, whether citizen, alien, or slave, should without fear give information of it.