Pollution and purity
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a woman who has given birth stays pure · impiety · polluted · pure · religious chastity
spoken of as
1 expressionPurity and pollution1 mention
Against Androtion (Greek)
but now they have vanished with the destruction of the crowns, and the saucers which that lewd fellow has had made in their place bear the inscription, Made by direction of Androtion.
in the texts
Against Androtion
The required moral and ritual fitness for contact with sacred places, vessels, and worship.
but now they have vanished with the destruction of the crowns, and the saucers which that lewd fellow has had made in their place bear the inscription, Made by direction of Androtion.
I hold that the man who is to enter the sacred 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;
Electra
Concerns with ritual and moral purity—sexual chastity, birth-pollution, and the 'unholiness' of Clytemnestra—that recur across the dialogue.
for an unholy woman is an object of hatred.
Ten days ago, in which a woman who has given birth stays pure.
Does he hold some form of religious chastity, or does he think you unworthy?