1. Euripides, Bacchae, 58-59, 78-82, 101-102, 123-134, 757 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Croesus, Cybele, cult of • Cybele • Cybele, and rebirth, and baptism • Dionysos, and Kybele • Kybele • Magna Mater/Cybele • Mother (Cybele)
Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 146, 175; Bremmer (2008) 294, 295; Gorain (2019) 16; Graf and Johnston (2007) 146; Griffiths (1975) 302; Liapis and Petrides (2019) 27; Martin (2009) 107, 109
58. αἴρεσθε τἀπιχώριʼ ἐν πόλει Φρυγῶν 59. τύμπανα, Ῥέας τε μητρὸς ἐμά θʼ εὑρήματα,
78. τά τε ματρὸς μεγάλας ὄργια 101. στεφάνωσέν τε δρακόντων'102. στεφάνοις, ἔνθεν ἄγραν θηροτρόφον 123. ἔνθα τρικόρυθες ἄντροις 124. βυρσότονον κύκλωμα τόδε 125. μοι Κορύβαντες ηὗρον· 126. βακχείᾳ δʼ ἀνὰ συντόνῳ 127. κέρασαν ἁδυβόᾳ Φρυγίων 128. αὐλῶν πνεύματι ματρός τε Ῥέας ἐς 129. χέρα θῆκαν, κτύπον εὐάσμασι Βακχᾶν· 130. παρὰ δὲ μαινόμενοι Σάτυροι 131. ματέρος ἐξανύσαντο θεᾶς, 132. ἐς δὲ χορεύματα 133. συνῆψαν τριετηρίδων, 134. αἷς χαίρει Διόνυσος. Χορός
757. οὐ χαλκός, οὐ σίδηρος· ἐπὶ δὲ βοστρύχοις '. None | 58. But, you women who have left Tmolus, the bulwark of Lydia , my sacred band, whom I have brought from among the barbarians as assistants and companions to me, take your drums, native instruments of the city of the Phrygians, the invention of mother Rhea and myself,
78. has his soul initiated into the Bacchic revels, dancing in inspired frenzy over the mountains with holy purifications, and who, revering the mysteries of great mother Kybele, 80. brandishing the thyrsos, garlanded with ivy, serves Dionysus.Go, Bacchae, go, Bacchae, escorting the god Bromius, child of a god,
101. had perfected him, the bull-horned god, and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks. Choru'102. had perfected him, the bull-horned god, and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks. Choru
123. O secret chamber of the Kouretes and you holy Cretan caves, parents to Zeus, where the Korybantes with triple helmet invented for me in their caves this circle, 125. covered with stretched hide; and in their excited revelry they mingled it with the sweet-voiced breath of Phrygian pipes and handed it over to mother Rhea, resounding with the sweet songs of the Bacchae; 130. nearby, raving Satyrs were fulfilling the rites of the mother goddess, and they joined it to the dances of the biennial festivals, in which Dionysus rejoices. Choru
757. and whatever they put on their shoulders, whether bronze or iron, was not held on by bonds, nor did it fall to the ground. They carried fire on their locks, but it did not burn them. Some people in rage took up arms, being plundered by the Bacchae, '. None |
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2. Herodotus, Histories, 2.51-2.52 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Kybele (goddess and cult of the Great Mother/Meter) • Kybeles rock
Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 372; Gaifman (2012) 305
2.51. ταῦτα μέν νυν καὶ ἄλλα πρὸς τούτοισι, τὰ ἐγὼ φράσω, Ἕλληνες ἀπʼ Αἰγυπτίων νενομίκασι· τοῦ δὲ Ἑρμέω τὰ ἀγάλματα ὀρθὰ ἔχειν τὰ αἰδοῖα ποιεῦντες οὐκ ἀπʼ Αἰγυπτίων μεμαθήκασι, ἀλλʼ ἀπὸ Πελασγῶν πρῶτοι μὲν Ἑλλήνων ἁπάντων Ἀθηναῖοι παραλαβόντες, παρὰ δὲ τούτων ὧλλοι. Ἀθηναίοισι γὰρ ἤδη τηνικαῦτα ἐς Ἕλληνας τελέουσι Πελασγοὶ σύνοικοι ἐγένοντο ἐν τῇ χώρῃ, ὅθεν περ καὶ Ἕλληνες ἤρξαντο νομισθῆναι. ὅστις δὲ τὰ Καβείρων ὄργια μεμύηται, τὰ Σαμοθρήικες ἐπιτελέουσι παραλαβόντες παρὰ Πελασγῶν, οὗτος ὡνὴρ οἶδε τὸ λέγω· τὴν γὰρ Σαμοθρηίκην οἴκεον πρότερον Πελασγοὶ οὗτοι οἵ περ Ἀθηναίοισι σύνοικοι ἐγένοντο, καὶ παρὰ τούτων Σαμοθρήικες τὰ ὄργια παραλαμβάνουσι. ὀρθὰ ὦν ἔχειν τὰ αἰδοῖα τἀγάλματα τοῦ Ἑρμέω Ἀθηναῖοι πρῶτοι Ἑλλήνων μαθόντες παρὰ Πελασγῶν ἐποιήσαντο· οἱ δὲ Πελασγοὶ ἱρόν τινα λόγον περὶ αὐτοῦ ἔλεξαν, τὰ ἐν τοῖσι ἐν Σαμοθρηίκῃ μυστηρίοισι δεδήλωται. 2.52. ἔθυον δὲ πάντα πρότερον οἱ Πελασγοὶ θεοῖσι ἐπευχόμενοι, ὡς ἐγὼ ἐν Δωδώνῃ οἶδα ἀκούσας, ἐπωνυμίην δὲ οὐδʼ οὔνομα ἐποιεῦντο οὐδενὶ αὐτῶν· οὐ γὰρ ἀκηκόεσάν κω. θεοὺς δὲ προσωνόμασαν σφέας ἀπὸ τοῦ τοιούτου, ὅτι κόσμῳ θέντες τὰ πάντα πρήγματα καὶ πάσας νομὰς εἶχον. ἔπειτα δὲ χρόνου πολλοῦ διεξελθόντος ἐπύθοντο ἐκ τῆς Αἰγύπτου ἀπικόμενα τὰ οὐνόματα τῶν θεῶν τῶν ἄλλων, Διονύσου δὲ ὕστερον πολλῷ ἐπύθοντο. καὶ μετὰ χρόνον ἐχρηστηριάζοντο περὶ τῶν οὐνομάτων ἐν Δωδώνῃ· τὸ γὰρ δὴ μαντήιον τοῦτο νενόμισται ἀρχαιότατον τῶν ἐν Ἕλλησι χρηστηρίων εἶναι, καὶ ἦν τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον μοῦνον. ἐπεὶ ὦν ἐχρηστηριάζοντο ἐν τῇ Δωδώνῃ οἱ Πελασγοὶ εἰ ἀνέλωνται τὰ οὐνόματα τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν βαρβάρων ἥκοντα, ἀνεῖλε τὸ μαντήιον χρᾶσθαι. ἀπὸ μὲν δὴ τούτου τοῦ χρόνου ἔθυον τοῖσι οὐνόμασι τῶν θεῶν χρεώμενοι· παρὰ δὲ Πελασγῶν Ἕλληνες ἐξεδέξαντο ὕστερον.''. None | 2.51. These customs, then, and others besides, which I shall indicate, were taken by the Greeks from the Egyptians. It was not so with the ithyphallic images of Hermes; the production of these came from the Pelasgians, from whom the Athenians were the first Greeks to take it, and then handed it on to others. ,For the Athenians were then already counted as Greeks when the Pelasgians came to live in the land with them and thereby began to be considered as Greeks. Whoever has been initiated into the rites of the Cabeiri, which the Samothracians learned from the Pelasgians and now practice, understands what my meaning is. ,Samothrace was formerly inhabited by those Pelasgians who came to live among the Athenians, and it is from them that the Samothracians take their rites. ,The Athenians, then, were the first Greeks to make ithyphallic images of Hermes, and they did this because the Pelasgians taught them. The Pelasgians told a certain sacred tale about this, which is set forth in the Samothracian mysteries. 2.52. Formerly, in all their sacrifices, the Pelasgians called upon gods without giving name or appellation to any (I know this, because I was told at Dodona ); for as yet they had not heard of such. They called them gods from the fact that, besides setting everything in order, they maintained all the dispositions. ,Then, after a long while, first they learned the names of the rest of the gods, which came to them from Egypt, and, much later, the name of Dionysus; and presently they asked the oracle at Dodona about the names; for this place of divination, held to be the most ancient in Hellas, was at that time the only one. ,When the Pelasgians, then, asked at Dodona whether they should adopt the names that had come from foreign parts, the oracle told them to use the names. From that time onwards they used the names of the gods in their sacrifices; and the Greeks received these later from the Pelasgians. ''. None |
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3. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Kybele
Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 146; de Jáuregui et al. (2011) 283
69c. κάθαρσίς τις τῶν τοιούτων πάντων καὶ ἡ σωφροσύνη καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη καὶ ἀνδρεία, καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ φρόνησις μὴ καθαρμός τις ᾖ. καὶ κινδυνεύουσι καὶ οἱ τὰς τελετὰς ἡμῖν οὗτοι καταστήσαντες οὐ φαῦλοί τινες εἶναι, ἀλλὰ τῷ ὄντι πάλαι αἰνίττεσθαι ὅτι ὃς ἂν ἀμύητος καὶ ἀτέλεστος εἰς Ἅιδου ἀφίκηται ἐν βορβόρῳ κείσεται, ὁ δὲ κεκαθαρμένος τε καὶ τετελεσμένος ἐκεῖσε ἀφικόμενος μετὰ θεῶν οἰκήσει. εἰσὶν γὰρ δή, ὥς φασιν οἱ περὶ τὰς τελετάς, ναρθηκοφόροι''. None | 69c. from all these things, and self-restraint and justice and courage and wisdom itself are a kind of purification. And I fancy that those men who established the mysteries were not unenlightened, but in reality had a hidden meaning when they said long ago that whoever goes uninitiated and unsanctified to the other world will lie in the mire, but he who arrives there initiated and purified will dwell with the gods. For as they say in the mysteries, the thyrsus-bearers are many, but the mystics few ;''. None |
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4. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Mother (Cybele)
Found in books: Martin (2009) 107, 161; Mikalson (2010) 107
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5. None, None, nan (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Croesus, Cybele, cult of • Cybele • Dionysos, and Kybele
Found in books: Bremmer (2008) 294, 295; Graf and Johnston (2007) 154; Liapis and Petrides (2019) 46
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6. None, None, nan (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele
Found in books: Augoustakis (2014) 132, 133; Verhagen (2022) 132, 133
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7. Ovid, Fasti, 4.337-4.339, 4.341 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Dionysos, and Kybele • Kybeles rock
Found in books: Bremmer (2008) 296; Gaifman (2012) 114, 305; Panoussi(2019) 251
4.337. est locus, in Tiberim qua lubricus influit Almo 4.338. et nomen magno perdit in amne minor: 4.339. illic purpurea canus cum veste sacerdos
4.341. exululant comites, furiosaque tibia flatur,''. None | 4.337. There’s a place where smooth-flowing Almo joins the Tiber, 4.338. And the lesser flow loses its name in the greater: 4.339. There, a white-headed priest in purple robe
4.341. The attendants howled, and the mad flutes blew,''. None |
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8. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.587 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Kybele
Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 295; Panoussi(2019) 251
6.587. Tempus erat, quo sacra solent trieterica Bacchi''. None | 6.587. it chanced the children did stretch out their arm''. None |
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9. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Attis; loved by Cybele • Cybele • Cybele, rites of
Found in books: Pinheiro Bierl and Beck (2013) 243; Sider (2001) 33
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10. None, None, nan (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Dionysos, and Kybele • Great Mother (Cybele) • Magna Mater (Cybele) • Mater Magna, Mater deum, Cybele
Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 199; Bremmer (2008) 295, 296; Gale (2000) 126, 217; Gordon (2012) 161; Jenkyns (2013) 222, 248, 251
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11. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele, and rebirth, priest of • Cybele, cult of
Found in books: Griffiths (1975) 194; Isaac (2004) 341
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12. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele (goddess) • Dionysos, and Kybele
Found in books: Bremmer (2008) 296; Goldman (2013) 62
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13. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Mater Magna, Mater deum, Cybele
Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 194; Bricault and Bonnet (2013) 291
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14. None, None, nan (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Mater Magna, Mater deum, Cybele
Found in books: Belayche and Massa (2021) 213; Schultz and Wilberding (2022) 203
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15. Vergil, Aeneis, 4.166-4.168, 4.215, 8.337-8.361, 9.598-9.620
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Cybele, cult of • Dionysos, and Kybele • Great Mother (Cybele) • Magna Mater (Cybele)
Found in books: Augoustakis (2014) 134; Bremmer (2008) 293, 295; Isaac (2004) 338; Jenkyns (2013) 115; Panoussi(2019) 251, 256; Verhagen (2022) 134
4.166. deveniunt: prima et Tellus et pronuba Iuno 4.167. dant signum; fulsere ignes et conscius aether 4.168. conubiis, summoque ulularunt vertice nymphae.
4.215. Et nunc ille Paris cum semiviro comitatu,
8.337. Vix ea dicta: dehinc progressus monstrat et aram 8.338. et Carmentalem Romani nomine portam 8.339. quam memorant, nymphae priscum Carmentis honorem, 8.340. vatis fatidicae, cecinit quae prima futuros 8.341. Aeneadas magnos et nobile Pallanteum. 8.342. Hinc lucum ingentem quem Romulus acer Asylum 8.343. rettulit et gelida monstrat sub rupe Lupercal, 8.344. Parrhasio dictum Panos de more Lycaei. 8.345. Nec non et sacri monstrat nemus Argileti 8.346. testaturque locum et letum docet hospitis Argi. 8.347. Hinc ad Tarpeiam sedem et Capitolia ducit, 8.348. aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis. 8.349. Iam tum religio pavidos terrebat agrestis 8.350. dira loci, iam tum silvam saxumque tremebant. 8.351. Hoc nemus, hunc, inquit, frondoso vertice collem 8.352. (quis deus incertum est) habitat deus: Arcades ipsum 8.353. credunt se vidisse Iovem, cum saepe nigrantem 8.354. aegida concuteret dextra nimbosque cieret. 8.355. Haec duo praeterea disiectis oppida muris, 8.356. reliquias veterumque vides monimenta virorum. 8.357. Hanc Ianus pater, hanc Saturnus condidit arcem: 8.358. Ianiculum huic, illi fuerat Saturnia nomen. 8.359. Talibus inter se dictis ad tecta subibant 8.360. pauperis Euandri passimque armenta videbant 8.361. Romanoque foro et lautis mugire Carinis.
9.598. Non pudet obsidione iterum valloque teneri, 9.599. bis capti Phryges, et morti praetendere muros? 9.600. En qui nostra sibi bello conubia poscunt! 9.601. Quis deus Italiam, quae vos dementia adegit 9.602. Non hic Atridae nec fandi fictor Ulixes: 9.603. durum a stirpe genus natos ad flumina primum 9.604. deferimus saevoque gelu duramus et undis, 9.605. venatu invigilant pueri silvasque fatigant, 9.606. flectere ludus equos et spicula tendere cornu. 9.607. At patiens operum parvoque adsueta iuventus 9.608. aut rastris terram domat aut quatit oppida bello. 9.609. Omne aevum ferro teritur, versaque iuvencum 9.610. terga fatigamus hasta; nec tarda senectus 9.611. debilitat vires animi mutatque vigorem: 9.612. canitiem galea premimus, semperque recentis 9.613. comportare iuvat praedas et vivere rapto. 9.615. desidiae cordi, iuvat indulgere choreis, 9.616. et tunicae manicas et habent redimicula mitrae. 9.617. O vere Phrygiae, neque enim Phryges, ite per alta 9.618. Dindyma ubi adsuetis biforem dat tibia cantum! 9.619. Tympana vos buxusque vocat Berecyntia Matris 9.620. Idaeae sinite arma viris et cedite ferro.' '. None | 4.166. But in what wise our urgent task and grave 4.167. may soon be sped, I will in brief unfold 4.168. to thine attending ear. A royal hunt
4.215. of woodland creatures; the wild goats are seen,
8.337. a storm of smoke—incredible to tell — 8.338. and with thick darkness blinding every eye, 8.339. concealed his cave, uprolling from below 8.340. one pitch-black night of mingled gloom and fire. 8.341. This would Alcides not endure, but leaped 8.342. headlong across the flames, where densest hung 8.343. the rolling smoke, and through the cavern surged 8.344. a drifting and impenetrable cloud. 8.345. With Cacus, who breathed unavailing flame, 8.346. he grappled in the dark, locked limb with limb, ' "8.347. and strangled him, till o'er the bloodless throat " '8.348. the starting eyeballs stared. Then Hercules 8.349. burst wide the doorway of the sooty den, 8.350. and unto Heaven and all the people showed ' "8.351. the stolen cattle and the robber's crimes, " '8.352. and dragged forth by the feet the shapeless corpse 8.353. of the foul monster slain. The people gazed 8.354. insatiate on the grewsome eyes, the breast 8.355. of bristling shag, the face both beast and man, 8.356. and that fire-blasted throat whence breathed no more ' "8.357. the extinguished flame. 'T is since that famous day " '8.358. we celebrate this feast, and glad of heart 8.359. each generation keeps the holy time. 8.360. Potitius began the worship due, 8.361. and our Pinarian house is vowed to guard
9.598. the bosom white as snow. Euryalus 9.599. ank prone in death; upon his goodly limbs 9.600. the life-blood ran unstopped, and low inclined 9.601. the drooping head; as when some purpled flower, 9.602. cut by the ploughshare, dies, or poppies proud 9.603. with stem forlorn their ruined beauty bow 9.604. before the pelting storm. Then Nisus flew 9.605. traight at his foes; but in their throng would find 9.606. Volscens alone, for none but Volscens stayed: 9.607. they gathered thickly round and grappled him 9.608. in shock of steel with steel. But on he plunged, 9.609. winging in ceaseless circles round his head 9.610. his lightning-sword, and thrust it through the face 9.611. of shrieking Volscens, with his own last breath 9.612. triking his foeman down; then cast himself ' "9.613. upon his fallen comrade's breast; and there, " '9.615. Heroic pair and blest! If aught I sing 9.616. have lasting music, no remotest age ' "9.617. hall blot your names from honor's storied scroll: " "9.618. not while the altars of Aeneas' line " "9.619. hall crown the Capitol's unshaken hill, " "9.620. nor while the Roman Father's hand sustains " '. None |
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16. Vergil, Eclogues, 4.31-4.35
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele
Found in books: Augoustakis (2014) 134; Verhagen (2022) 134
| 4.31. caressing flowers. The serpent too shall die, 4.32. die shall the treacherous poison-plant, and far 4.33. and wide Assyrian spices spring. But soon' "4.34. as thou hast skill to read of heroes' fame," "4.35. and of thy father's deeds, and inly learn"'. None |
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17. Vergil, Georgics, 2.157
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele • Great Mother (Cybele), temples of • Magna Mater (Cybele), temples of • Temple of Magna Mater (Cybele) • Temple of, Great Mother (Cybele)
Found in books: Gale (2000) 217; Jenkyns (2013) 264
2.157. fluminaque antiquos subter labentia muros.''. None | 2.157. of Aethiop forests hoar with downy wool,''. None |
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18. None, None, nan
Tagged with subjects: • Cybele
Found in books: Agri (2022) 105, 106, 107, 109, 111; Augoustakis (2014) 79, 80, 132, 133, 134; Mackay (2022) 60, 75, 126, 129, 138, 168, 173, 174, 175, 176, 181; Panoussi(2019) 154, 251; Verhagen (2022) 79, 80, 132, 133, 134
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