She guides us impiously through the holidays with no particular deference to denomination, mixing the folkloric and the Judeo-Christian with the commercial and the bureaucratic.
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Coming across a group of working journalists today, as Mr. Wolfe impiously remarked at a 2003 lecture to patrons of the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Conn.
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Critic's Notebook Tennessee Williams's most reliable instrument of release — and torture — glows impiously in the hushed white gallery of the Morgan Library & Museum, like a neon sign in a church.
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In Mr Ventura's view, what all these apparently disparate cases have in common is that they uphold the idea of the private firm as an agency which enjoys freedom in religious matters: in other words, the freedom either to behave piously or impiously.
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When the army of the Seven reached Thebes, they managed to drive the Thebans back inside their walls. The Seven then proceeded to launch an attack on the walls of the city. Capaneus impiously boasted that not even Zeus could keep him from burning the city. But, as he was scaling the walls, Zeus struck him down with a thunderbolt.
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Not the Charmides who participated in the tyranny at Athens. The ancients believed that his masters were HegiasNot to be confused with Hegias the neoplatonic philosopher. and Ageladas. Plutarch discusses Phidias' friendship with the Greek statesman Pericles, recording that enemies of Pericles tried to attack him through Phidias – who was accused of stealing gold intended for the Parthenon's statue of Athena, and of impiously portraying himself and Pericles on the shield of the statue.
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It was first used as a term of censure roughly meaning "ungodly" or "impious". In the 5th century BCE, the word began to indicate more deliberate and active godlessness in the sense of "severing relations with the gods" or "denying the gods". The term ἀσεβής (') then came to be applied against those who impiously denied or disrespected the local gods, even if they believed in other gods. Modern translations of classical texts sometimes render ' as "atheistic".
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In a cult hymn from Olympia, at a festival for Hera, Dionysus is invited to come as a bull; "with bull-foot raging". Walter Burkert relates, "Quite frequently [Dionysus] is portrayed with bull horns, and in Kyzikos he has a tauromorphic image", and refers also to an archaic myth in which Dionysus is slaughtered as a bull calf and impiously eaten by the Titans.Burkert, p. 64. A sculpted phallus at the entrance of the temple of Dionysus in Delos, Greece.
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Phidias supposedly weighed the gold robe of the Athena Parthenos to prove his innocence, but was then accused of impiously portraying himself and Pericles on the shield of the statue, which was apparently true. Plutarch records that Phidias was imprisoned and died in jail. Aristophanes' play Peace () mentions an unfortunate incident involving Phidias, but little context is provided. According to Philochorus, as quoted by a scholiast on Aristophanes, Phidias was put to death by the Eleans after he completed the Statue of Zeus at Olympia for them.
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The following account of Tomarsa's episcopate and martyrdom is given by Bar Hebraeus: > After Barbʿashmin, Tamuza. This is a Chaldean name for one of the wandering > stars, and is equivalent to the Greek Ares [Mars]. When the impious Julian > descended into Persia to do battle with Shapur and died there, struck in the > side by a missile, Shapur was convinced that this had happened by God’s > will, because he had impiously persecuted the people of Christ. He therefore > reversed his wicked policy, made peace with Jovian, Julian’s chief > commander, and ordered the churches to be restored.
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And just because we love thee, we will do all that is in our power to make thee honored and loved by all men. In the meantime do thou, our merciful Mother, the supreme comforter of the afflicted, accept this our act of reparation which we offer thee for ourselves and for all our families, as well as for all who impiously blaspheme thee, not knowing what they say. Do thou obtain for them from Almighty God the grace of conversion, and thus render more manifest and more glorious thy kindness, thy power and thy great mercy. May they join with us in proclaiming thee blessed among women, the Immaculate Virgin and most compassionate Mother of God.
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Colossal head of Constantine (4th century), Capitoline museum, Rome Under Constantine the Great Jewish clergy were given the same exemptions as Christian clergy.Cameron, 107. Constantine, however, supported the separation of the date of Easter from the Jewish Passover (see also Quartodecimanism), stating in his letter after the First Council of Nicaea (which had already decided the matter): > "... it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy > feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled > their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with > blindness of soul ... Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable > Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different > way."Eusebius, Life of Constantine Vol.
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A number of early and influential Church works — such as the dialogues of Justin Martyr, the homilies of John Chrysostom, and the testimonies of church father Cyprian — are strongly anti-Jewish. During a discussion on the celebration of Easter during the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, Roman emperor Constantine said, > ...it appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy > feast we should follow the practice of the Jews, who have impiously defiled > their hands with enormous sin, and are, therefore, deservedly afflicted with > blindness of soul. (...) Let us then have nothing in common with the > detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different > way.Eusebius. "Life of Constantine (Book III)", 337 CE. Retrieved March 12, > 2006.
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In a worship hymn from Olympia, at a festival for Hera, Dionysus is also invited to come as a bull, "with bull-foot raging." "Quite frequently he is portrayed with bull horns, and in Kyzikos he has a tauromorphic image," Walter Burkert relates, and refers also to an archaic myth in which Dionysus is slaughtered as a bull calf and impiously eaten by the Titans.Burkert 1985 pp. 64, 132 For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Cretan Bull: Theseus of Athens had to capture the ancient sacred bull of Marathon (the "Marathonian bull") before he faced the Minotaur (Greek for "Bull of Minos"), who the Greeks imagined as a man with the head of a bull at the center of the labyrinth.
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In 250 to 262, at the height of the outbreak, 5,000 people a day were said to be dying in Rome. Cyprian's biographer, Pontius of Carthage, wrote of the plague at Carthage: > Afterwards there broke out a dreadful plague, and excessive destruction of a > hateful disease invaded every house in succession of the trembling populace, > carrying off day by day with abrupt attack numberless people, every one from > his own house. All were shuddering, fleeing, shunning the contagion, > impiously exposing their own friends, as if with the exclusion of the person > who was sure to die of the plague, one could exclude death itself also. > There lay about the meanwhile, over the whole city, no longer bodies, but > the carcasses of many, and, by the contemplation of a lot which in their > turn would be theirs, demanded the pity of the passers-by for themselves.
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