1. Homeric Hymns, To Hermes, 108, 574-575, 109 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 208 | 109. Drove Phoebus’ wide-faced cattle and, still spry, |
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| 2. Homer, Odyssey, 6.163-6.164, 11.325, 23.356-23.357 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •birth of dionysus, artemis as birth goddess •birth of dionysus, athena Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 180, 326 |
3. Homer, Iliad, 1.194-1.195, 1.400, 1.601-1.603, 5.880, 18.394-18.395, 18.400-18.401, 21.308-21.323 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 131, 180, 205, 238, 239, 384 | 1.194. / and break up the assembly, and slay the son of Atreus, or stay his anger and curb his spirit. While he pondered this in mind and heart, and was drawing from its sheath his great sword, Athene came from heaven. The white-armed goddess Hera had sent her forth, 1.195. / for in her heart she loved and cared for both men alike.She stood behind him, and seized the son of Peleus by his fair hair, appearing to him alone. No one of the others saw her. Achilles was seized with wonder, and turned around, and immediately recognized Pallas Athene. Terribly her eyes shone. 1.400. / But you came, goddess, and freed him from his bonds, when you had quickly called to high Olympus him of the hundred hands, whom the gods call Briareus, but all men Aegaeon; for he is mightier than his father. He sat down by the side of the son of Cronos, exulting in his glory, 1.601. / Thus the whole day long till the setting of the sun they feasted, nor did their heart lack anything of the equal feast, nor of the beauteous lyre, that Apollo held, nor yet of the Muses, who sang, replying one to the other with sweet voices.But when the bright light of the sun was set, 1.602. / Thus the whole day long till the setting of the sun they feasted, nor did their heart lack anything of the equal feast, nor of the beauteous lyre, that Apollo held, nor yet of the Muses, who sang, replying one to the other with sweet voices.But when the bright light of the sun was set, 1.603. / Thus the whole day long till the setting of the sun they feasted, nor did their heart lack anything of the equal feast, nor of the beauteous lyre, that Apollo held, nor yet of the Muses, who sang, replying one to the other with sweet voices.But when the bright light of the sun was set, 5.880. / but rather settest her on, for that this pestilent maiden is thine own child. Now hath she set on the son of Tydeus, Diomedes high of heart, to vent his rage upon immortal gods. Cypris first he wounded with a thrust in close fight upon the hand at the wrist, and thereafter rushed upon mine own self as he had been a god. 18.394. / a beautiful chair, richly-wrought, and beneath was a footstool for the feet; and she called to Hephaestus, the famed craftsman, and spake to him, saying:Hephaestus, come forth hither; Thetis hath need of thee. And the famous god of the two strong arms answered her:Verily then a dread and honoured goddess is within my halls, 18.395. / even she that saved me when pain was come upon me after I had fallen afar through the will of my shameless mother, that was fain to hide me away by reason of my lameness. Then had I suffered woes in heart, had not Eurynome and Thetis received me into their bosom—Eurynome, daughter of backward-flowing Oceanus. 18.400. / With them then for nine years' space I forged much cunning handiwork, brooches, and spiral arm-bands, and rosettes and necklaces, within their hollow cave; and round about me flowed, murmuring with foam, the stream of Oceanus, a flood unspeakable. Neither did any other know thereof, either of gods or of mortal men, 18.401. / With them then for nine years' space I forged much cunning handiwork, brooches, and spiral arm-bands, and rosettes and necklaces, within their hollow cave; and round about me flowed, murmuring with foam, the stream of Oceanus, a flood unspeakable. Neither did any other know thereof, either of gods or of mortal men, 21.308. / Nor yet would Scamander abate his fury, but was even more wroth against the son of Peleus, and raising himself on high he made the surge of his flood into a crest, and he called with a shout to Simois:Dear brother, the might of this man let us stay, though it need the two of us, seeing presently he will lay waste the great city of king Priam, 21.309. / Nor yet would Scamander abate his fury, but was even more wroth against the son of Peleus, and raising himself on high he made the surge of his flood into a crest, and he called with a shout to Simois:Dear brother, the might of this man let us stay, though it need the two of us, seeing presently he will lay waste the great city of king Priam, 21.310. / neither will the Trojans abide him in battle. Nay, bear thou aid with speed, and fill thy streams with water from thy springs, and arouse all thy torrents; raise thou a great wave, and stir thou a mighty din of tree-trunks and stones, that we may check this fierce man 21.311. / neither will the Trojans abide him in battle. Nay, bear thou aid with speed, and fill thy streams with water from thy springs, and arouse all thy torrents; raise thou a great wave, and stir thou a mighty din of tree-trunks and stones, that we may check this fierce man 21.312. / neither will the Trojans abide him in battle. Nay, bear thou aid with speed, and fill thy streams with water from thy springs, and arouse all thy torrents; raise thou a great wave, and stir thou a mighty din of tree-trunks and stones, that we may check this fierce man 21.313. / neither will the Trojans abide him in battle. Nay, bear thou aid with speed, and fill thy streams with water from thy springs, and arouse all thy torrents; raise thou a great wave, and stir thou a mighty din of tree-trunks and stones, that we may check this fierce man 21.314. / neither will the Trojans abide him in battle. Nay, bear thou aid with speed, and fill thy streams with water from thy springs, and arouse all thy torrents; raise thou a great wave, and stir thou a mighty din of tree-trunks and stones, that we may check this fierce man 21.315. / that now prevaileth, and is minded to vie even with the gods. For I deem that his strength shall naught avail him, neither anywise his comeliness, nor yet that goodly armour, which, I ween, deep beneath the mere shall lie covered over with slime; and himself will I enwrap in sands and shed over him great store of shingle 21.316. / that now prevaileth, and is minded to vie even with the gods. For I deem that his strength shall naught avail him, neither anywise his comeliness, nor yet that goodly armour, which, I ween, deep beneath the mere shall lie covered over with slime; and himself will I enwrap in sands and shed over him great store of shingle 21.317. / that now prevaileth, and is minded to vie even with the gods. For I deem that his strength shall naught avail him, neither anywise his comeliness, nor yet that goodly armour, which, I ween, deep beneath the mere shall lie covered over with slime; and himself will I enwrap in sands and shed over him great store of shingle 21.318. / that now prevaileth, and is minded to vie even with the gods. For I deem that his strength shall naught avail him, neither anywise his comeliness, nor yet that goodly armour, which, I ween, deep beneath the mere shall lie covered over with slime; and himself will I enwrap in sands and shed over him great store of shingle 21.319. / that now prevaileth, and is minded to vie even with the gods. For I deem that his strength shall naught avail him, neither anywise his comeliness, nor yet that goodly armour, which, I ween, deep beneath the mere shall lie covered over with slime; and himself will I enwrap in sands and shed over him great store of shingle 21.320. / past all measuring; nor shall the Achaeans know where to gather his bones, with such a depth of silt shall I enshroud him. Even here shall be his sepulchre, nor shall he have need of a heaped-up mound, when the Achaeans make his funeral. 21.321. / past all measuring; nor shall the Achaeans know where to gather his bones, with such a depth of silt shall I enshroud him. Even here shall be his sepulchre, nor shall he have need of a heaped-up mound, when the Achaeans make his funeral. 21.322. / past all measuring; nor shall the Achaeans know where to gather his bones, with such a depth of silt shall I enshroud him. Even here shall be his sepulchre, nor shall he have need of a heaped-up mound, when the Achaeans make his funeral. 21.323. / past all measuring; nor shall the Achaeans know where to gather his bones, with such a depth of silt shall I enshroud him. Even here shall be his sepulchre, nor shall he have need of a heaped-up mound, when the Achaeans make his funeral. |
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| 4. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, 204.44-204.45 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •birth of dionysus, athena Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 326 |
5. Hesiod, Theogony, 70-71 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 206 | 71. The Graces and Desire dwelt quite free |
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| 6. Sappho, Fragments, 17 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •apulian painter, volute krater with birth of dionysus •birth of dionysus Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 394 |
| 7. Sappho, Fragments, 17 (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •apulian painter, volute krater with birth of dionysus •birth of dionysus Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 394 |
| 8. Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 73 |
| 9. Pindar, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 66, 68, 69 |
10. Herodotus, Histories, 2.59 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 76 | 2.59. The Egyptians hold solemn assemblies not once a year, but often. The principal one of these and the most enthusiastically celebrated is that in honor of Artemis at the town of Bubastis , and the next is that in honor of Isis at Busiris. ,This town is in the middle of the Egyptian Delta, and there is in it a very great temple of Isis, who is Demeter in the Greek language. ,The third greatest festival is at Saïs in honor of Athena; the fourth is the festival of the sun at Heliopolis , the fifth of Leto at Buto , and the sixth of Ares at Papremis. |
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11. Euripides, Bacchae, 286-290, 292-297, 291 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 14, 15| 291. Ζεὺς δʼ ἀντεμηχανήσαθʼ οἷα δὴ θεός. | |
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| 12. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 68, 69 |
| 13. Sophocles, Fragments, 3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 74 |
| 14. Sophocles, Oedipus At Colonus, 695, 694 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 203 |
| 15. Philochorus, Fragments, None (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 77 |
| 16. Callimachus, Hymn To The Baths of Pallas, 33-34 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 204 |
| 17. Callimachus, Fragments, 364 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 77 |
| 18. Callimachus, Fragments, 364 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 77 |
| 19. Callimachus, Fragments, 364 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 77 |
| 20. Euphorion of Chalcis, Fragments, 53, 13 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 77, 78 |
| 21. Euphorion of Chalcis, Fragments, 13, 53 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 75 |
| 22. Apollodorus of Athens, Fragments, 1.4.1, 3.12.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •birth of dionysus, artemis as birth goddess •birth of dionysus, athena Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 180, 209 |
23. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 3.62.8, 3.66.2, 4.25.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of •birth of dionysus, artemis as birth goddess Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 74, 76; Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 384 | 3.62.8. And with these stories the teachings agree which are set forth in the Orphic poems and are introduced into their rites, but it is not lawful to recount them in detail to the uninitiated. 3.66.2. The Teans advance as proof that the god was born among them the fact that, even to this day, at fixed times in their city a fountain of wine, of unusually sweet fragrance, flows of its own accord from the earth; and as for the peoples of the other cities, they in some cases point out a plot of land which is sacred to Dionysus, in other cases shrines and sacred precincts which have been consecrated to him from ancient times. 4.25.4. He also took part in the expedition of the Argonauts, and because of the love he held for his wife he dared the amazing deed of descending into Hades, where he entranced Persephonê by his melodious song and persuaded her to assist him in his desires and to allow him to bring up his dead wife from Hades, in this exploit resembling Dionysus; for the myths relate that Dionysus brought up his mother Semelê from Hades, and that, sharing with her his own immortality, he changed her name to Thyonê. But now that we have discussed Orpheus, we shall return to Heracles. |
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| 24. Hyginus, Fabulae (Genealogiae), 164, 167 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 78 |
| 25. Agatharchides, Fragments, 7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth of Found in books: Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 90 |
26. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.24.5, 9.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •birth of dionysus, athena Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 61, 229| 1.24.5. ὁπόσα ἐν τοῖς καλουμένοις ἀετοῖς κεῖται, πάντα ἐς τὴν Ἀθηνᾶς ἔχει γένεσιν, τὰ δὲ ὄπισθεν ἡ Ποσειδῶνος πρὸς Ἀθηνᾶν ἐστιν ἔρις ὑπὲρ τῆς γῆς· αὐτὸ δὲ ἔκ τε ἐλέφαντος τὸ ἄγαλμα καὶ χρυσοῦ πεποίηται. μέσῳ μὲν οὖν ἐπίκειταί οἱ τῷ κράνει Σφιγγὸς εἰκών—ἃ δὲ ἐς τὴν Σφίγγα λέγεται, γράψω προελθόντος ἐς τὰ Βοιώτιά μοι τοῦ λόγου—, καθʼ ἑκάτερον δὲ τοῦ κράνους γρῦπές εἰσιν ἐπειργασμένοι. | 1.24.5. Their ritual, then, is such as I have described. As you enter the temple that they name the Parthenon, all the sculptures you see on what is called the pediment refer to the birth of Athena, those on the rear pediment represent the contest for the land between Athena and Poseidon. The statue itself is made of ivory and gold. On the middle of her helmet is placed a likeness of the Sphinx—the tale of the Sphinx I will give when I come to my description of Boeotia—and on either side of the helmet are griffins in relief. |
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| 27. Anon., Protevangelium of James, 18-20, 17 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 67 |
| 28. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 24.48-24.49 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 78 |
| 29. Homeric Hymns, To Athena, 2, 1 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Simon, Zeyl, and Shapiro, (2021), The Gods of the Greeks, 231, 232 |
| 30. Epigraphy, Smyrna, None Tagged with subjects: •dionysus, birth (and rebirth) of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007), Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets, 79 |
