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Asebeia (Ancient Gr****: ἀσέβεια) was a
criminal charge in
ancient Greece for the "desecration and
mockery of
divine objects", for "irreverence towards...
- was
convicted of
intentional homicide,
planning to
commit homicide, or
asebeia (impiety).
Three ancient accounts survive of her prosecution,
which constitute...
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traditional historical narrative, she
worked as a
courtesan and was
tried for
asebeia (impiety),
though modern scholars have
questioned the
factual basis for...
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therefore was
perhaps between 350 and 340 BC.
Phryne was
charged with
asebeia, a kind of blasphemy. An
anonymous treatise on rhetoric,
which summarises...
- Socrates.
Socrates died in
Athens in 399 BC
after a
trial for
impiety (
asebeia) and the
corruption of the young. He
spent his last day in
prison among...
-
accusations In his
defence at trial,
Socrates faced two sets of accusations: (i)
asebeia (impiety)
against the
pantheon of Athens, by
introducing new gods; and...
-
presented at his
trial for the
moral corruption of
Athenian youth; and for
asebeia (impiety)
against the
pantheon of Athens;
judged guilty,
Socrates was sentenced...
- ****umptions
about it are
based on an
apparently fake
story about his
trial for
asebeia (impiety) in Athens.
Plutarch wrote that
Pericles and
Protagoras spent...
- home town of Eleusis.
According to Aristotle,
Aeschylus was
accused of
asebeia (impiety) for
revealing some of the cult's
secrets on stage.
Other sources...
- the
secrets of the
Eleusinian Mysteries. The
Athenians accused him of
asebeia (impiety) and
banished him from
their city. He died in Corinth. Diagoras...
