The sources of De Corona

1. Book of Isaiah unnamed (attributed prophetic authority) 1 authority 1 citation

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   The passage alludes to the prophetic 'rod of Jesse' image as authoritative messianic figure for the true, unfading flower.

   You have the flower from the rod of Jesse, upon which the whole grace of the divine Spirit rested—the flower incorrupt, unfading, everlasting;

2. Callimachus 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Callimachus is explicitly named as the source of specific mythological crown details, cited neutrally.

   you have Pindar and Callimachus, who records too that Apollo, after the dragon Delphyne was slain, put on the laurel, in which he was a suppliant—for among the ancients suppliants were crowned.

3. Epistle to the Hebrews unnamed (attributed early Christian authority) 1 authority 1 citation

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   The passage paraphrases the Hebrews teaching on Christ's humiliation and exaltation as scriptural authority for Christ's true crowning.

   Certainly, beyond the figure, the insult is at hand, and the disfigurement and the foulness, and the savagery interwoven with these, which then fouled and mangled the Lord's temples—so that you now may be crowned with laurel and myrtle and olive and some illustrious foliage, and—what is more in use—with hundredfold roses too, gathered from the garden of Midas, and with both kinds of lilies and wit …

4. Harpocration 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Harpocration is explicitly named as the source of a specific interpretive claim, cited neutrally.

   Bacchus, the same who among the Egyptians is Osiris, Harpocration argues by industry to be ivy-crowned, because it is the nature of ivy to defend the brain from heaviness.

5. Hesiod 1 refuted 1 citation

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   Tertullian explicitly names Hesiod's account and rejects it as a falsehood.

   If there was any Pandora, whom Hesiod records as the first of women, her head first was crowned by the Graces, when she was endowed by all—whence "Pandora.

6. Homer 1 refuted 1 citation

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   Homer is explicitly named as the poetic source behind an argument Tertullian proceeds to counter.

   Claudius will indeed allege beforehand that even heaven is crowned with stars in the verses of Homer—certainly by God, certainly for man;

7. Pindar 1 neutral 1 citation

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   Pindar is explicitly named as a literary source, cited neutrally to document mythological tradition.

   you have Pindar and Callimachus, who records too that Apollo, after the dragon Delphyne was slain, put on the laurel, in which he was a suppliant—for among the ancients suppliants were crowned.

8. Psalms David 1 authority 1 citation

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   David is explicitly quoted as a scriptural source condemning idols, foundational to the argument against crowns as idol-adjacent.

   "The idols of the nations," says David, "are silver and gold.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

de corona 19 sources

Apocalypse of John · Book concerning crowns · Book of Revelation (Apocalypse) · Book of Revelation (on the kingdom of priests) · Epistle of John (general epistle) · Epistle to the Corinthians (attributed Pauline epistle) · Epistle to the Corinthians (attributed Pauline epistle, on women's adornment) · Epistles of Paul (unspecified) · First epistle to the Corinthians / general Pauline teaching on idols · Genealogy/report on Saturn · Genesis (Mosaic account of Eve) · Gospel · Gospel account of Christ's entry into Jerusalem · Historical/mythographic writings · Isaiah (prophetic book) · Mithraic mystery cult initiation rite · Old Testament law (Mosaic law) · Second Epistle to Timothy (attributed Pauline epistle) · Writings on Isis and the grain-ears