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) 237; Geljon and Runia (2019) 48, 121, 124; Levison (2009) 147, 148, 311
1.27. וַיִּבְרָא אֱלֹהִים אֶת־הָאָדָם בְּצַלְמוֹ בְּצֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים בָּרָא אֹתוֹ זָכָר וּנְקֵבָה בָּרָא אֹתָם׃' '. None | 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 |
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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) 68; Ker and Wessels (2020) 34; Sommerstein and Torrance (2014) 121, 122; Tor (2017) 358
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 | 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 |
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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) 275; Geljon and Runia (2019) 121
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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) 43; Long (2006) 270
| 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 |
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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) 279; Geljon and Runia (2019) 125; Levison (2009) 146, 147, 148, 311; Wilson (2010) 188, 191
| 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 |
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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) 279; Geljon and Runia (2019) 121; Levison (2009) 146, 147, 148, 247, 311
| 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 |
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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) 279; Geljon and Runia (2019) 121
| 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 |
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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) 279; Levison (2009) 147, 148
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9. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • aether, • ether
Found in books: Geljon and Runia (2019) 99, 115; Wilson (2010) 191
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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) 14; Inwood and Warren (2020) 118; Levison (2009) 139
| 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 |
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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) 341; d, Hoine and Martijn (2017) 135
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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) 17; Schultz and Wilberding (2022) 210
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