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dynamis Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2002) 75
Edmonds, Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (2019) 65
Luck, Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts (2006) 8, 9, 21, 63, 341, 348, 377, 465
MacDougall, Philosophy at the Festival: The Festal Orations of Gregory of Nazianzus and the Classical Tradition (2022) 61
Malherbe et al., Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity: Collected Essays of Abraham J (2014) 875
Penniman, Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity (2017) 151
dynamis, church below agia, athens Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 329
dynamis, of deity Dignas Parker and Stroumsa, Priests and Prophets Among Pagans, Jews and Christians (2013) 133
dynamis, power, in paul Engberg-Pedersen, Cosmology and Self in the Apostle Paul: The Material Spirit (2010) 28, 43, 44, 47, 70, 89, 151
dynamis, power, lat. vis = gr. Tsouni, Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics (2019) 66, 67, 99, 100, 103, 124, 187, 193, 195
dynamis, source Penniman, Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity (2017) 59
dynamis, wisdom Penniman, Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity (2017) 184

List of validated texts:
5 validated results for "dynamis"
1. Plato, Sophist, 247e, 248c, 248e (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Plato on potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) • Plotinus on potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) • dunamis • power (Lat. vis = Gr. dynamis)

 Found in books: Gerson and Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (2022) 176; Tsouni, Antiochus and Peripatetic Ethics (2019) 66; d'Hoine and Martijn, All From One: A Guide to Proclus (2017) 99, 125

247e εἴτʼ εἰς τὸ ποιεῖν ἕτερον ὁτιοῦν πεφυκὸς εἴτʼ εἰς τὸ παθεῖν καὶ σμικρότατον ὑπὸ τοῦ φαυλοτάτου, κἂν εἰ μόνον εἰς ἅπαξ, πᾶν τοῦτο ὄντως εἶναι· τίθεμαι γὰρ ὅρον ὁρίζειν τὰ ὄντα ὡς ἔστιν οὐκ ἄλλο τι πλὴν δύναμις. ΘΕΑΙ. ἀλλʼ ἐπείπερ αὐτοί γε οὐκ ἔχουσιν ἐν τῷ παρόντι τούτου βέλτιον λέγειν, δέχονται τοῦτο. ΞΕ. καλῶς· ἴσως γὰρ ἂν εἰς ὕστερον ἡμῖν τε καὶ τούτοις 248c ΞΕ. οὐ συγχωροῦσιν ἡμῖν τὸ νυνδὴ ῥηθὲν πρὸς τοὺς γηγενεῖς οὐσίας πέρι. ΘΕΑΙ. τὸ ποῖον; ΞΕ. ἱκανὸν ἔθεμεν ὅρον που τῶν ὄντων, ὅταν τῳ παρῇ ἡ τοῦ πάσχειν ἢ δρᾶν καὶ πρὸς τὸ σμικρότατον δύναμις; ΘΕΑΙ. ναί. ΞΕ. πρὸς δὴ ταῦτα τόδε λέγουσιν, ὅτι γενέσει μὲν μέτεστι τοῦ πάσχειν καὶ ποιεῖν δυνάμεως, πρὸς δὲ οὐσίαν τούτων οὐδετέρου τὴν δύναμιν ἁρμόττειν φασίν. ΘΕΑΙ. οὐκοῦν λέγουσί τι; ΞΕ. πρὸς ὅ γε λεκτέον ἡμῖν ὅτι δεόμεθα παρʼ αὐτῶν, 248e ποιεῖν τι, τὸ γιγνωσκόμενον ἀναγκαῖον αὖ συμβαίνει πάσχειν. τὴν οὐσίαν δὴ κατὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον γιγνωσκομένην ὑπὸ τῆς γνώσεως, καθʼ ὅσον γιγνώσκεται, κατὰ τοσοῦτον κινεῖσθαι διὰ τὸ πάσχειν, ὃ δή φαμεν οὐκ ἂν γενέσθαι περὶ τὸ ἠρεμοῦν. ΘΕΑΙ. ὀρθῶς. ΞΕ. τί δὲ πρὸς Διός; ὡς ἀληθῶς κίνησιν καὶ ζωὴν καὶ ψυχὴν καὶ φρόνησιν ἦ ῥᾳδίως πεισθησόμεθα τῷ παντελῶς,
247e or to be affected even in the least degree by the slightest cause, though it be only on one occasion, has real existence. For I set up as a definition which defines being, that it is nothing else but power. Theaet. Well, since they have at the moment nothing better of their own to offer, they accept this. Str. Good; for perhaps later something else may occur to them and to us. As between them
248c
Str. They do not concede to us what we said just now to the aboriginal giants about being. Theaet. What was it? Str. We set up as a satisfactory sort of definition of being, the presence of the power to act or be acted upon in even the slightest degree. Theaet. Yes. Str. It is in reply to this that they say generation participates in the power of acting and of being acted upon, but that neither power is connected with being. Theaet. And is there not something in that? Str. Yes, something to which we must reply that we still need,
248e
that if to know is active, to be known must in turn be passive. Now being, since it is, according to this theory, known by the intelligence, in so far as it is known, is moved, since it is acted upon, which we say cannot be the case with that which is in a state of rest. Theaet. Right. Str. But for heaven’s sake, shall we let ourselves easily be persuaded that motion and life and soul and mind are really not present to absolute being, that it neither lives nor thinks,
2. Plato, Timaeus, 30b, 30c (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • active/causal/productive (gennetikê, γεννητική‎; paraktikê, παρακτική‎) potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) • capacity (dunamis) • potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) of Intellect/Demiurge

 Found in books: Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 110; d'Hoine and Martijn, All From One: A Guide to Proclus (2017) 151

30b λογισάμενος οὖν ηὕρισκεν ἐκ τῶν κατὰ φύσιν ὁρατῶν οὐδὲν ἀνόητον τοῦ νοῦν ἔχοντος ὅλον ὅλου κάλλιον ἔσεσθαί ποτε ἔργον, νοῦν δʼ αὖ χωρὶς ψυχῆς ἀδύνατον παραγενέσθαι τῳ. διὰ δὴ τὸν λογισμὸν τόνδε νοῦν μὲν ἐν ψυχῇ, ψυχὴν δʼ ἐν σώματι συνιστὰς τὸ πᾶν συνετεκταίνετο, ὅπως ὅτι κάλλιστον εἴη κατὰ φύσιν ἄριστόν τε ἔργον ἀπειργασμένος. οὕτως οὖν δὴ κατὰ λόγον τὸν εἰκότα δεῖ λέγειν τόνδε τὸν κόσμον ζῷον ἔμψυχον ἔννουν τε τῇ ἀληθείᾳ διὰ τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ, γενέσθαι πρόνοιαν.
30b none that is irrational will be fairer, comparing wholes with wholes, than the rational; and further, that reason cannot possibly belong to any apart from Soul. So because of this reflection He constructed reason within soul and soul within body as He fashioned the All, that so the work He was executing might be of its nature most fair and most good. Thus, then, in accordance with the likely account, we must declare that this Cosmos has verily come into existence as a Living Creature endowed with soul and reason owing to the providence of God.
3. Aristotle, Metaphysics, 1046a16, 1046a17, 1046a18, 1046a19 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
 Tagged with subjects: • active/causal/productive (gennetikê, γεννητική‎; paraktikê, παρακτική‎) potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) • capacity (dunamis), in capacity (= potentially) • potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) vs. passive power

 Found in books: Singer and van Eijk, Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) (2018) 155; d'Hoine and Martijn, All From One: A Guide to Proclus (2017) 96

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4. Plotinus, Enneads, (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • One, the, dunamis • dunamis • potentiality (dunamis) • power (dunamis) • power (dunamis), incorporeal

 Found in books: Gerson and Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (2022) 20, 21, 98, 111; Hankinson, Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought (1998) 412, 414, 416, 417

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5. Proclus, Institutio Theologica, 18, 27, 81, 86 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
 Tagged with subjects: • Aristotle on dunamis and energeia • active/causal/productive (gennetikê, γεννητική‎; paraktikê, παρακτική‎) potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) • dunamis • potency/power (dunamis, δύναμις‎) vs. passive power

 Found in books: Delcomminette, d’Hoine, and Gavray, Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo (2015) 248, 253; Gerson and Wilberding, The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus (2022) 111; d'Hoine and Martijn, All From One: A Guide to Proclus (2017) 50, 53, 84

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Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.