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subject	book bibliographic info
chronos	Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 5, 6, 238 Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 17, 18, 19, 28, 29, 33, 41, 89, 90 Fisch, (2023), Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash, 88, 89, 90, 106 Jorgenson (2018), The Embodied Soul in Plato's Later Thought, 178 Jouanna (2018), Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, 142 Malherbe et al. (2014), Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J, 653 Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 84, 86 Taylor and Hay (2020), Philo of Alexandria: On the Contemplative Life: Introduction, Translation and Commentary, 120, 154 Trapp et al. (2016), In Praise of Asclepius: Selected Prose Hymns, 80 de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 79, 93, 95, 96, 97, 102, 106, 121, 153, 189, 207, 284, 287, 380
chronos, kronos, kewan, greek god	Rizzi (2010), Hadrian and the Christians, 142, 143, 144
chronos, tense	Faure (2022), Conceptions of Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity, 7, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 43, 128
chronos, time	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 79, 94, 95, 102, 207, 209, 210, 250, 382
chronos, time, first time, prōtos	Zachhuber (2022), Time and Soul: From Aristotle to St. Augustine. 55, 56

List of validated texts:

5 validated results for "chronos"

1. Hesiod, Theogony, 851 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Chronos • Chronos, • time, Chronos

Found in books: Del Lucchese (2019), Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture, 28; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 102

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851 Τιτῆνές θʼ ὑποταρτάριοι, Κρόνον ἀμφὶς ἐόντες,'' None

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851 Represented by the water, famed and cold,'' None

2. None, None, nan (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Chronos

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 93; Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 6

3. Sophocles, Ajax, 646-647 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Chronos

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 93; Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 6

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646 All things the long and countless years first draw from darkness, and then bury from light; and there is nothing which man should not expect: the dread power of oath is conquered, as is unyielding will.'⁶⁴⁷ All things the long and countless years first draw from darkness, and then bury from light; and there is nothing which man should not expect: the dread power of oath is conquered, as is unyielding will. ' None

4. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 2.64 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Chronos

Found in books: Castagnoli and Ceccarelli (2019), Greek Memories: Theories and Practices, 6; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 380

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2.64 now these immoral fables enshrined a decidedly clever scientific theory. Their meaning was that the highest element of celestial ether or fire, which by itself generates all things, is devoid of that bodily part which requires union with another for the work of procreation. By Saturn again they denoted that being who maintains the course and revolution of seasons and periods of time, et deity actually so designated in Greek, for Saturn's Greek name is Kronos, which is the same as chronos, a space of time. The Latin designation 'Saturn' on the other hand is due to the fact that he is 'saturated' or 'satiated with years' (anni); the fable is that he was in the habit of devouring his sons — meaning that Time devours the ages and gorges himself insatiably with the years that are past. Saturn was bound by Jove in order that Time's courses might not be unlimited, and that Jove might fetter him by the bonds of the stars. But Jupiter himself — the name means 'the helping father,' whom with a change of inflexion we style Jove, from iuvare 'to help'; the poets call him 'father of gods and men,' and our ancestors entitled him 'best and greatest,' putting the title 'best,' that is most beneficent, before that of 'greatest,' because universal beneficence is greater, or at least more lovable, than the possession of great wealth — "" None

5. Athenagoras, Apology Or Embassy For The Christians, 18 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Chronos • Heracles, Chronos-Heracles

Found in books: Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 91; Rasimus (2009), Paradise Reconsidered in Gnostic Mythmaking: Rethinking Sethianism in Light of the Ophite Evidence, 84

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18 But, since it is affirmed by some that, although these are only images, yet there exist gods in honour of whom they are made; and that the supplications and sacrifices presented to the images are to be referred to the gods, and are in fact made to the gods; and that there is not any other way of coming to them, for 'Tis hard for man To meet in presence visible a God; and whereas, in proof that such is the fact, they adduce the energies possessed by certain images, let us examine into the power attached to their names. And I would beseech you, greatest of emperors, before I enter on this discussion, to be indulgent to me while I bring forward true considerations; for it is not my design to show the fallacy of idols, but, by disproving the calumnies vented against us, to offer a reason for the course of life we follow. May you, by considering yourselves, be able to discover the heavenly kingdom also! For as all things are subservient to you, father and son, who have received the kingdom from above (for the king's soul is in the hand of God, Proverbs 21:1 says the prophetic Spirit), so to the one God and the Logos proceeding from Him, the Son, apprehended by us as inseparable from Him, all things are in like manner subjected. This then especially I beg you carefully to consider. The gods, as they affirm, were not from the beginning, but every one of them has come into existence just like ourselves. And in this opinion they all agree. Homer speaks of Old Oceanus, The sire of gods, and Tethys; and Orpheus (who, moreover, was the first to invent their names, and recounted their births, and narrated the exploits of each, and is believed by them to treat with greater truth than others of divine things, whom Homer himself follows in most matters, especially in reference to the gods)- he, too, has fixed their first origin to be from water:- Oceanus, the origin of all. For, according to him, water was the beginning of all things, and from water mud was formed, and from both was produced an animal, a dragon with the head of a lion growing to it, and between the two heads there was the face of a god, named Heracles and Kronos. This Heracles generated an egg of enormous size, which, on becoming full, was, by the powerful friction of its generator, burst into two, the part at the top receiving the form of heaven (&" None

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