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subject	book bibliographic info
aether	Inwood and Warren (2020), Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy, 118 Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 34 King (2006), Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 62, 63 Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 130, 141, 269, 270 Osborne (1996), Eros Unveiled: Plato and the God of Love. 119, 120 Schultz and Wilberding (2022), Women and the Female in Neoplatonism, 129, 183, 187, 210, 229 Trott (2019), Aristotle on the Matter of Form: ? Feminist Metaphysics of Generation, 53, 54, 177, 179, 184 Wilson (2010), Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 187, 188, 191, 308
aether, elements	King (2006), Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 62
aether, invoked	Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 121, 122, 291
aether, parmenides, as	Tor (2017), Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology, 248
aether, parmenides, on	Tor (2017), Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology, 230, 231, 258, 349, 350, 352, 353, 356, 358
aether, spirit, characterizations as	Levison (2009), Filled with the Spirit, 139, 140, 146, 147, 148, 247, 311
aether, αἰθήρ	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 446, 557
aethereal, eschatology. see mystery initiations and entries under empedocles, euripides, homer, parmenides, pindar, pythagoras and the pythagoreans	Tor (2017), Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology, 228, 229, 230, 242, 244, 245, 356
spirit, characterizations as, a, ether	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 43, 46, 82, 275, 279

List of validated texts:

13 validated results for "aether"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.27 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Spirit, characterizations as, aether • ether • ethereal

Found in books: Garcia (2021), On Human Nature in Early Judaism: Creation, Composition, and Condition, 237; Geljon and Runia (2019), Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 48, 121, 124; Levison (2009), Filled with the Spirit, 147, 148, 311

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1.27 וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה בָּרָא אֹתָם׃' ' None

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1.27 And God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.' ' None

2. Hesiod, Theogony, 116-122, 124, 748-754 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aether • Aether invoked • Parmenides, on aether • aether

Found in books: Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 68; Ker and Wessels (2020), The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn, 34; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014), Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece, 121, 122; Tor (2017), Mortal and Divine in Early Greek Epistemology, 358

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116 ἦ τοι μὲν πρώτιστα Χάος γένετʼ, αὐτὰρ ἔπειτα'¹¹⁷ Γαῖʼ εὐρύστερνος, πάντων ἕδος ἀσφαλὲς αἰεὶ ¹¹⁸ ἀθανάτων, οἳ ἔχουσι κάρη νιφόεντος Ὀλύμπου, ¹¹⁹ Τάρταρά τʼ ἠερόεντα μυχῷ χθονὸς εὐρυοδείης, ¹²⁰ ἠδʼ Ἔρος, ὃς κάλλιστος ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι, ¹²¹ λυσιμελής, πάντων δὲ θεῶν πάντων τʼ ἀνθρώπων ¹²² δάμναται ἐν στήθεσσι νόον καὶ ἐπίφρονα βουλήν. ¹²⁴ Νυκτὸς δʼ αὖτʼ Αἰθήρ τε καὶ Ἡμέρη ἐξεγένοντο, ⁷⁴⁸ ἀστεμφέως, ὅθι Νύξ τε καὶ Ἡμέρη ἆσσον ἰοῦσαι ⁷⁴⁹ ἀλλήλας προσέειπον, ἀμειβόμεναι μέγαν οὐδὸν ⁷⁵⁰ χάλκεον· ἣ μὲν ἔσω καταβήσεται, ἣ δὲ θύραζε ⁷⁵¹ ἔρχεται, οὐδέ ποτʼ ἀμφοτέρας δόμος ἐντὸς ἐέργει, ⁷⁵² ἀλλʼ αἰεὶ ἑτέρη γε δόμων ἔκτοσθεν ἐοῦσα ⁷⁵³ γαῖαν ἐπιστρέφεται, ἣ δʼ αὖ δόμου ἐντὸς ἐοῦσα ⁷⁵⁴ μίμνει τὴν αὐτῆς ὥρην ὁδοῦ, ἔστʼ ἂν ἵκηται, ' None

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116 A pleasing song and laud the company'¹¹⁷ of the immortal gods, and those created ¹¹⁸ In earthly regions and those generated ¹¹⁹ In Heaven and Night and in the briny sea. ¹²⁰ Tell how the gods and Earth first came to be, ¹²¹ The streams, the swelling sea and up on high ¹²² The gleaming stars, broad Heaven in the sky, ¹²⁴ Good things, dividing their prosperity ⁷⁴⁸ With fury; from Olympus then he came, ⁷⁴⁹ Showing his strength and hurling lightning ⁷⁵⁰ Continually; his bolts went rocketing ⁷⁵¹ Nonstop from his strong hand and, whirling, flashed ⁷⁵² An awesome flame. The nurturing earth then crashed ⁷⁵³ And burned, the mighty forest crackling ⁷⁵⁴ Fortissimo, the whole earth smouldering, ' None

3. None, None, nan (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Spirit, characterizations as,, (a)ether • ether

Found in books: Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 275; Geljon and Runia (2019), Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 121

4. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.58 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Spirit, characterizations as,, (a)ether • aether

Found in books: Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 43; Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 270

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2.58 the nature of the world itself, which encloses and contains all things in its embrace, is styled by Zeno not merely 'craftsmanlike' but actually 'a craftsman,' whose foresight plans out the work to serve its use and purpose in every detail. And as the other natural substances are generated, reared and sustained each by its own seeds, so the world-nature experiences all those motions of the will, those impulses of conation and desire, that the Greeks call hormae, and follows these up with the appropriate actions in the same way as do we ourselves, who experience emotions and sensations. Such being the nature of the world-mind, it can therefore correctly be designated as prudence or providence (for in Greek it is termed pronoia); and this providence is chiefly directed and concentrated upon three objects, namely to secure for the world, first, the structure best fitted for survival; next, absolute completeness; but chiefly, consummate beauty and embellishment of every kind. "" None

5. Philo of Alexandria, On The Creation of The World, 70, 135 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Spirit, characterizations as, aether • Spirit, characterizations as,, (a)ether • aether, • ether

Found in books: Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 279; Geljon and Runia (2019), Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 125; Levison (2009), Filled with the Spirit, 146, 147, 148, 311; Wilson (2010), Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 188, 191

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70 And again, being raised up on wings, and so surveying and contemplating the air, and all the commotions to which it is subject, it is borne upwards to the higher firmament, and to the revolutions of the heavenly bodies. And also being itself involved in the revolutions of the planets and fixed stars according to the perfect laws of music, and being led on by love, which is the guide of wisdom, it proceeds onwards till, having surmounted all essence intelligible by the external senses, it comes to aspire to such as is perceptible only by the intellect: ¹³⁵ But he asserts that the formation of the individual man, perceptible by the external senses is a composition of earthy substance, and divine spirit. For that the body was created by the Creator taking a lump of clay, and fashioning the human form out of it; but that the soul proceeds from no created thing at all, but from the Father and Ruler of all things. For when he uses the expression, "he breathed into," etc., he means nothing else than the divine spirit proceeding form that happy and blessed nature, sent to take up its habitation here on earth, for the advantage of our race, in order that, even if man is mortal according to that portion of him which is visible, he may at all events be immortal according to that portion which is invisible; and for this reason, one may properly say that man is on the boundaries of a better and an immortal nature, partaking of each as far as it is necessary for him; and that he was born at the same time, both mortal and the immortal. Mortal as to his body, but immortal as to his intellect. XLVII. '' None

6. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 4.123 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Spirit, characterizations as, aether • Spirit, characterizations as,, (a)ether • ether

Found in books: Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 279; Geljon and Runia (2019), Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 121; Levison (2009), Filled with the Spirit, 146, 147, 148, 247, 311

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4.123 On which account Moses, in another passage, establishes a law concerning blood, that one may not eat the blood nor the Fat.{27}{' None

7. Philo of Alexandria, That God Is Unchangeable, 46 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Spirit, characterizations as,, (a)ether • ether

Found in books: Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 279; Geljon and Runia (2019), Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 121

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46 For the mind is the sight of the soul, shining transcendently with its own rays, by which the great and dense darkness which ignorance of things sheds around is dissipated. This species of soul is not composed of the same elements as those of which the other kinds were made, but it has received a purer and more excellent essence of which the divine natures were formed; on which account the intellect naturally appears to be the only thing in us which is imperishable, '' None

8. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Spirit, characterizations as, aether • Spirit, characterizations as,, (a)ether

Found in books: Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 279; Levison (2009), Filled with the Spirit, 147, 148

9. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • aether, • ether

Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019), Philo of Alexandria: On Planting: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 99, 115; Wilson (2010), Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, 191

10. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.139 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aether • Spirit, characterizations as, aether • elements, ether, fifth substance

Found in books: Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 14; Inwood and Warren (2020), Body and Soul in Hellenistic Philosophy, 118; Levison (2009), Filled with the Spirit, 139

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7.139 For through some parts it passes as a hold or containing force, as is the case with our bones and sinews; while through others it passes as intelligence, as in the ruling part of the soul. Thus, then, the whole world is a living being, endowed with soul and reason, and having aether for its ruling principle: so says Antipater of Tyre in the eighth book of his treatise On the Cosmos. Chrysippus in the first book of his work On Providence and Posidonius in his book On the Gods say that the heaven, but Cleanthes that the sun, is the ruling power of the world. Chrysippus, however, in the course of the same work gives a somewhat different account, namely, that it is the purer part of the aether; the same which they declare to be preeminently God and always to have, as it were in sensible fashion, pervaded all that is in the air, all animals and plants, and also the earth itself, as a principle of cohesion.'' None

11. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • daemons, ethereal • ethereal vehicle (of the soul)(ochêma, ὄχημα‎)

Found in books: Schibli (2002), Hierocles of Alexandria, 341; d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 135

12. None, None, nan (missingth cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Aether • elements, ether, fifth substance

Found in books: Frede and Laks (2001), Traditions of Theology: Studies in Hellenistic Theology, its Background and Aftermath, 17; Schultz and Wilberding (2022), Women and the Female in Neoplatonism, 210

13. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Cosmos, ethereal • ethereal vehicle (of the soul)(ochêma, ὄχημα‎)

Found in books: Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 267; d'Hoine and Martijn (2017), All From One: A Guide to Proclus, 219

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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