Impiety toward the gods
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
impiety · godlessness · hubris · insolence toward Dionysus · outrage toward the gods · sacrilege · sin against the gods
in the texts
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The charge that Neaera's and Stephanus's conduct constitutes impiety toward the gods, alongside outrage toward the commonwealth and contempt for the laws.
that he is guilty of impiety toward the gods;
How this came about and for what cause I will tell you in detail regarding this matter also, when I shall have proved regarding this woman Neaera that she is an alien and is guilty of grievous wrongs against you and of impiety towards the gods;
They flung in my teeth the charge that I was the most cowardly of humankind, if, being so closely related to them, I did not take vengeance for the injuries done my sister, my father-in-law, my sister’s children, and my own wife, and if I did not bring before you this woman who is guilty of such flagrant impiety toward the gods, of such outrage toward the commonwealth, and of such contempt for you …
Bacchae
The failure to honor and acknowledge Dionysus as a god, identified repeatedly as the root cause of Pentheus's and the house's destruction.
Being insulted with insolence, for you did not consider him a god.
It chastises those mortals who honor folly and those who in their insanity do not extol the gods.
Whoever with wicked mind and unjust rage regarding your rites, Bacchus, and those of your mother, comes with raving heart and mad disposition violently to overcome by force what is invincible—death is the discipline for his purposes, accepting no excuses when the affairs of the gods are concerned;