1. Homer, Iliad, 9.457, 9.569 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 603 | 9.457. / that never should there sit upon his knees a dear child begotten of me; and the gods fulfilled his curse, even Zeus of the nether world and dread Persephone. Then I took counsel to slay him with the sharp sword, but some one of the immortals stayed mine anger, bringing to my mind 9.569. / By her side lay Meleager nursing his bitter anger, wroth because of his mother's curses; for she prayed instantly to the gods, being grieved for her brother's slaying; and furthermore instantly beat with her hands upon the all-nurturing earth, calling upon Hades and dread Persephone, |
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| 2. Pindar, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 600 |
| 3. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 2.58-2.70 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 599 |
| 4. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 175-178, 267-275, 538-542, 544-548, 951-952, 543 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 603 |
5. Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, 226-232, 413-416, 701-707, 709, 732-733, 708 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 603| 708. τρίτον τόδʼ ἐν θεσμίοις | |
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| 6. Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 602 |
| 7. Pherecrates, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
| 8. Plato, Apology of Socrates, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 608 |
9. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 608| 91d. ἔρως συναγαγόντες, οἷον ἀπὸ δένδρων καρπὸν καταδρέψαντες, ὡς εἰς ἄρουραν τὴν μήτραν ἀόρατα ὑπὸ σμικρότητος καὶ ἀδιάπλαστα ζῷα κατασπείραντες καὶ πάλιν διακρίναντες μεγάλα ἐντὸς ἐκθρέψωνται καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο εἰς φῶς ἀγαγόντες ζῴων ἀποτελέσωσι γένεσιν. γυναῖκες μὲν οὖν καὶ τὸ θῆλυ πᾶν οὕτω γέγονεν· τὸ δὲ τῶν ὀρνέων φῦλον μετερρυθμίζετο, ἀντὶ τριχῶν πτερὰ φύον, ἐκ τῶν ἀκάκων ἀνδρῶν, κούφων δέ, καὶ μετεωρολογικῶν μέν, ἡγουμένων δὲ διʼ ὄψεως | 91d. they sow upon the womb, as upon ploughed soil, animalcules that are invisible for smallness and unshapen; and these, again, they mold into shape and nourish to a great size within the body; after which they bring them forth into the light and thus complete the generation of the living creature. |
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10. Plato, Gorgias, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 608| 524b. ἀληθῆ εἶναι· καὶ ἐκ τούτων τῶν λόγων τοιόνδε τι λογίζομαι συμβαίνειν. ὁ θάνατος τυγχάνει ὤν, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, οὐδὲν ἄλλο ἢ δυοῖν πραγμάτοιν διάλυσις, τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ τοῦ σώματος, ἀπʼ ἀλλήλοιν· ἐπειδὰν δὲ διαλυθῆτον ἄρα ἀπʼ ἀλλήλοιν, οὐ πολὺ ἧττον ἑκάτερον αὐτοῖν ἔχει τὴν ἕξιν τὴν αὑτοῦ ἥνπερ καὶ ὅτε ἔζη ὁ ἄνθρωπος, τό τε σῶμα τὴν φύσιν τὴν αὑτοῦ καὶ τὰ θεραπεύματα καὶ τὰ παθήματα ἔνδηλα | 524b. and from these stories, on my reckoning, we must draw some such moral as this: death, as it seems to me, is actually nothing but the disconnection of two things, the soul and the body, from each other. And so when they are disconnected from one another, each of them keeps its own condition very much as it was when the man was alive, the body having its own nature, with its treatments and experiences all manifest upon it. For instance, |
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11. Herodotus, Histories, 2.8.1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 599 | 2.8.1. Beyond and above Heliopolis , Egypt is a narrow land. For it is bounded on the one side by the mountains of Arabia , which run north to south, always running south towards the sea called the Red Sea . In these mountains are the quarries that were hewn out for making the pyramids at Memphis . This way, then, the mountains run, and end in the places of which I have spoken; their greatest width from east to west, as I learned by inquiry, is a two months' journey, and their easternmost boundaries yield frankincense. |
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| 12. Sophocles, Fragments, 753 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 601 |
13. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 608| 114d. τὸ μὲν οὖν ταῦτα διισχυρίσασθαι οὕτως ἔχειν ὡς ἐγὼ διελήλυθα, οὐ πρέπει νοῦν ἔχοντι ἀνδρί: ὅτι μέντοι ἢ ταῦτ᾽ ἐστὶν ἢ τοιαῦτ’ ἄττα περὶ τὰς ψυχὰς ἡμῶν καὶ τὰς οἰκήσεις, ἐπείπερ ἀθάνατόν γε ἡ ψυχὴ φαίνεται οὖσα, τοῦτο καὶ πρέπειν μοι δοκεῖ καὶ ἄξιον κινδυνεῦσαι οἰομένῳ οὕτως ἔχειν — καλὸς γὰρ ὁ κίνδυνος — καὶ χρὴ τὰ τοιαῦτα ὥσπερ ἐπᾴδειν ἑαυτῷ, διὸ δὴ ἔγωγε καὶ πάλαι μηκύνω τὸν μῦθον. ἀλλὰ τούτων δὴ ἕνεκα θαρρεῖν χρὴ περὶ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ψυχῇ | 114d. Now it would not be fitting for a man of sense to maintain that all this is just as I have described it, but that this or something like it is true concerning our souls and their abodes, since the soul is shown to be immortal, I think he may properly and worthily venture to believe; for the venture is well worth while; and he ought to repeat such things to himself as if they were magic charms, which is the reason why I have been lengthening out the story so long. This then is why a man should be of good cheer about his soul, who in his life |
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14. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 608| 248a. ΣΩ. | 248a. that which best follows after God and is most like him, raises the head of the charioteer up into the outer region and is carried round in the revolution, troubled by the horses and hardly beholding the realities; and another sometimes rises and sometimes sinks, and, because its horses are unruly, it sees some things and fails to see others. The other souls follow after, all yearning for the upper region but unable to reach it, and are carried round beneath, |
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15. Aristophanes, Peace, 374-375 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 600| 375. δεῖ γὰρ μυηθῆναί με πρὶν τεθνηκέναι. | |
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| 16. Aristophanes, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
17. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 608| 619a. δεῖ ταύτην τὴν δόξαν ἔχοντα εἰς Ἅιδου ἰέναι, ὅπως ἂν ᾖ καὶ ἐκεῖ ἀνέκπληκτος ὑπὸ πλούτων τε καὶ τῶν τοιούτων κακῶν, καὶ μὴ ἐμπεσὼν εἰς τυραννίδας καὶ ἄλλας τοιαύτας πράξεις πολλὰ μὲν ἐργάσηται καὶ ἀνήκεστα κακά, ἔτι δὲ αὐτὸς μείζω πάθῃ, ἀλλὰ γνῷ τὸν μέσον ἀεὶ τῶν τοιούτων βίον αἱρεῖσθαι καὶ φεύγειν τὰ ὑπερβάλλοντα ἑκατέρωσε καὶ ἐν τῷδε τῷ βίῳ κατὰ τὸ δυνατὸν καὶ ἐν παντὶ τῷ ἔπειτα· οὕτω γὰρ | 619a. both for life and death. And a man must take with him to the house of death an adamantine faith in this, that even there he may be undazzled by riches and similar trumpery, and may not precipitate himself into tyrannies and similar doings and so work many evils past cure and suffer still greater himself, but may know how always to choose in such things the life that is seated in the mean and shun the excess in either direction, both in this world so far as may be and in all the life to come; |
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| 18. Sophocles Iunior, Fragments, 753 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 601 |
| 19. Pherecrates, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
20. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 608| 903b. λέγειν ὀρθῶς· ἐπῳδῶν γε μὴν προσδεῖσθαί μοι δοκεῖ μύθων ἔτι τινῶν. ΚΛ. ποίων, ὠγαθέ; ΑΘ. πείθωμεν τὸν νεανίαν τοῖς λόγοις ὡς τῷ τοῦ παντὸς ἐπιμελουμένῳ πρὸς τὴν σωτηρίαν καὶ ἀρετὴν τοῦ ὅλου πάντʼ ἐστὶ συντεταγμένα, ὧν καὶ τὸ μέρος εἰς δύναμιν ἕκαστον τὸ προσῆκον πάσχει καὶ ποιεῖ. τούτοις δʼ εἰσὶν ἄρχοντες προστεταγμένοι ἑκάστοις ἐπὶ τὸ σμικρότατον ἀεὶ πάθης καὶ πράξεως, εἰς μερισμὸν τὸν ἔσχατον τέλος ἀπειργασμένοι· | 903b. that what he says is wrong. But still he needs also, as it seems to me, some words of counsel to act as a charm upon him. Clin. What kind of words, my good sir? Ath. Let us persuade the young man by our discourse that all things are ordered systematically by Him who cares for the World—all with a view to the preservation and excellence of the Whole, whereof also each part, so far as it can, does and suffers what is proper to it. To each of these parts, down to the smallest fraction, rulers of their action and passion are appointed to bring about fulfillment even to the uttermost |
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| 21. Plutarch, Sayings of The Spartans, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
| 22. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.31.9, 10.31.11 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 602 |
| 23. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 6.1.4 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
| 24. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
| 26. Aristophon, Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
| 27. Aristophanes Boeotus, Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 559 |
| 28. Papyri, Derveni Papyrus, 5.6-5.10 Tagged with subjects: •afterlife, ritual absolution and Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 557, 558 |
