Impiety

Back in Rome, he was tried for impiety and heavily fined. citation In 162 BC, the Lex Faunia forbade fattening hens to conserve grain rations.

Because of Ajax's impiety, the Acheaens, urged by Odysseus, wanted to stone him to death, but he fled to Athena's altar, and was spared.

Christians were often given opportunities to avoid further punishment by publicly offering sacrifices or by burning incense to Roman gods, and were accused by the Romans of impiety when they refused.

For The Death of Socrates (1787), by Jacques-Louis David The Trial of Socrates (399 BC) was held to determine the guilt of the philosopher of two charges: corrupting the youth of the city-state and asebeia (impiety) against the pantheon of Athens.

Impiety could be punished in 5th century Athens, but the absurdities implicit in the traditional religion were open to ridicule.

Justin says: No one in his right mind gives up piety for impiety.

See P. Rhodes, 1981, Commentary on the Aristotelian "Athenaion Politeia", p. 729. Having been found guilty of corruption and impiety, Socrates and the prosecutor suggested sentences for the punishment of his crimes against the city-state of Athens.

Smith, 109; according to Hyginus for one In other versions he was killed for having committed an impiety by making love with his wife in the presence of a cult image in a sanctuary, According to Servius.

Socrates ' pupil Alcibiades was suspected of involvement, and Socrates indirectly paid for the impiety with his life.

Tertullian describes these events as examples of hollow impiety; Rome's false deities are acceptably impersonated by low and murderous persons for the purposes of human sacrifice and evil entertainment.

The character of Leo X was formerly assailed by lurid aspersions of debauchery, murder, impiety, and atheism.

The city's impiety to the old religion was clear to Julian when he attended the city's annual feast of Apollo.

The death of Socrates was the legal consequence of asking politico-philosophic questions of his students, from which resulted the two accusations, of moral corruption and of impiety.

This was an important accusation, and Hobbes himself wrote, in his answer to Bramhall's "The Catching of Leviathan" that "atheism, impiety, and the like are words of the greatest defamation possible". p. 282 of Molesworth's edition.

When Artemis and Apollo heard this impiety, Apollo killed her sons as they practiced athletics, and Artemis shot her daughters, who died instantly without a sound.

Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield, Norton, 2009 Background sidebar Before being tried for moral corruption and impiety, the philosopher Socrates was known to the citizens of Athens as an intellectual gadfly.