Pollution
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 11 anchored passages
pollution · blood upon his hands · defilement · guilt · impious · plague · pollute · ritual impurity · stain · the stain of blood
spoken of as
2 expressionsDefilement“Pollution”1 mention
The Third Tetralogy (Greek)
Thus may all of us citizens best avoid defilement.
in the texts
The Third Tetralogy
The ritual pollution (miasma) believed to attach to homicide and to spread to those who mishandle its prosecution or judgment, requiring purification through a correct and proportionate verdict.
Thus may all of us citizens best avoid defilement.
Him upon whom the stain of blood rests you may let time reveal, even as you may leave his punishment to his victim’s kin.
he actually accuses us, who are seeking expiation of the defilement which rests upon him, of acting like unscrupulous scoundrels.
Orestes
The concept of ritual defilement incurred through bloodshed, especially kin-murder, requiring purification or exile.
Orestes:
Have your hands not even been cleaned of blood, according to custom?
For referring the sin as I do to Phoebus, I incur no pollution by addressing you;
Euthyphro
The notion of ritual impurity incurred by knowingly associating with a wrongdoer and failing to prosecute him.
For the pollution is the same if you associate knowingly with such a man and do not purify yourself and him by proceeding against him.
Oedipus Tyrannus
The religious impurity caused by murder, incest, and cursed kinship, requiring avoidance, concealment, purification, or exile.
Lest you acquire some pollution from your parents?
Then would he who judged these things to be sent down by some cruel divinity not be right about Oedipus?
I have come as a suppliant with these symbols of prayer, that you may find us some escape from uncleanliness.