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ἀνάστασις (anastasis)

Greek term · 5 occurrences · 4 works

Short definition (LSJ): Act., (ἀνίστημι) making to stand or rise up, raising up the dead, ἀνδρὸς δ’ ἐπειδὰν αἷμ’ ἀνασπάσῃ κόνις . . οὔτις ἔστ’ ἀ.

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5 occurrences of this form in 4 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).

Works using this form

• History of the Peloponnesian War
  Thucydides · 2 occurrences
• The Eumenides
  Aeschylus · 1 occurrences
• Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17
  Josephus · 1 occurrences
• The Six Enneads: Enneads III-IV
  Plotinus · 1 occurrences

Example passages

…χαλεπῶς δὲ αὐτοῖς διὰ τὸ αἰεὶ εἰωθέναι τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς διαιτᾶσθαι ἡ ἀνάστασις ἐγίγνετο.…

Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War · Read in context

…ἅπαξ θανόντος, οὔτις ἔστʼ ἀνάστασις.…

Aeschylus — The Eumenides · Read in context

……τῶν τε ἐνεστώτων μὲν ὑπʼ ἐκείνου γνώμῃ δὲ τῇ αὐτῶν δοκεῖν παριόντων, ὅπως εἰς τὸ πραΰτερον καταστήσονται αὐτούς, οὐδενὸς ἠνείχοντο εἰπεῖν ἀνάστασίς τε ἦν δεύειν ὀργῇ χρωμένων, φανεροί τε ἦσαν ἐπὶ μέγα αὐξήσοντες τὴν στάσιν πλήθους ἐπισυρρυέντος αὐτοῖς.…

Josephus — Antiquities of the Jews, Book 17 · Read in context

Subjects

Death & the afterlife

Related terms in Latin (same subject)

• infernus — Death & the afterlife
• mors — Death & the afterlife
• purgatorium — Death & the afterlife

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