1. Homeric Hymns, To Demeter, 80 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 321 | 80. But by your beams through the extremity |
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2. Hesiod, Works And Days, 504 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 100 | 504. These steps, your fields of corn shall surely teem |
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| 3. Pindar, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 321 |
| 4. Sophocles, Antigone, 1115-1147, 1149-1154, 134-137, 1148 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280, 290 |
5. Herodotus, Histories, 8.11, 8.65, 8.65.1 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 75, 279, 350 | 8.11. But the Greeks, when the signal was given them, first drew the sterns of their ships together, their prows turned towards the foreigners; then at the second signal they put their hands to the work, despite the fact that they were hemmed in within a narrow space and were fighting face-to-face. ,There they took thirty of the foreigners ships as well as the brother of Gorgus king of Salamis, Philaon son of Chersis, a man of note in the fleet. The first Greek to take an enemy ship was an Athenian, Lycomedes, son of Aeschraeus, and he it was who received the prize for valor. ,They fought that sea-fight with doubtful issue, and nightfall ended the battle; the Greeks sailed back to Artemisium, and the barbarians to Aphetae, after faring far below their hopes in the fight. In that battle Antidorus of Lemnos, the only one of the Greeks siding with the Persian, deserted to the Greeks, and for that the Athenians gave him land in Salamis. 8.65. Dicaeus son of Theocydes, an Athenian exile who had become important among the Medes, said that at the time when the land of Attica was being laid waste by Xerxes' army and there were no Athenians in the country, he was with Demaratus the Lacedaemonian on the Thriasian plain and saw advancing from Eleusis a cloud of dust as if raised by the feet of about thirty thousand men. They marvelled at what men might be raising such a cloud of dust and immediately heard a cry. The cry seemed to be the “Iacchus” of the mysteries, ,and when Demaratus, ignorant of the rites of Eleusis, asked him what was making this sound, Dicaeus said, “Demaratus, there is no way that some great disaster will not befall the king's army. Since Attica is deserted, it is obvious that this voice is divine and comes from Eleusis to help the Athenians and their allies. ,If it descends upon the Peloponnese, the king himself and his army on the mainland will be endangered. If, however, it turns towards the ships at Salamis, the king will be in danger of losing his fleet. ,Every year the Athenians observe this festival for the Mother and the Maiden, and any Athenian or other Hellene who wishes is initiated. The voice which you hear is the ‘Iacchus’ they cry at this festival.” To this Demaratus replied, “Keep silent and tell this to no one else. ,If these words of yours are reported to the king, you will lose your head, and neither I nor any other man will be able to save you, so be silent. The gods will see to the army.” ,Thus he advised, and after the dust and the cry came a cloud, which rose aloft and floated away towards Salamis to the camp of the Hellenes. In this way they understood that Xerxes' fleet was going to be destroyed. Dicaeus son of Theocydes used to say this, appealing to Demaratus and others as witnesses. 8.65.1. Dicaeus son of Theocydes, an Athenian exile who had become important among the Medes, said that at the time when the land of Attica was being laid waste by Xerxes' army and there were no Athenians in the country, he was with Demaratus the Lacedaemonian on the Thriasian plain and saw advancing from Eleusis a cloud of dust as if raised by the feet of about thirty thousand men. They marvelled at what men might be raising such a cloud of dust and immediately heard a cry. The cry seemed to be the “Iacchus” of the mysteries, |
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| 6. Hermippus Comicus, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Edelmann-Singer et al (2020) 65 |
| 7. Euripides, Trojan Women, 1230 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 282 |
| 8. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 613 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 373 |
| 9. Euripides, Helen, 1307 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 255 |
| 10. Euripides, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110 |
11. Euripides, Cyclops, 69-71, 68 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 282| 68. οὐδ' ἐν Νύσᾳ μετὰ Νυμ- | |
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12. Euripides, Bacchae, 1018-1023, 1047, 1060-1062, 172, 306, 466, 470, 474, 477, 500-502, 526, 608-609, 642, 725-726, 800, 811-815, 819, 821, 829-836, 838, 848, 912-914, 916, 920, 925-944, 956, 743 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280| 743. ταῦροι δʼ ὑβρισταὶ κἀς κέρας θυμούμενοι | |
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| 13. Andocides, On The Mysteries, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 112 |
| 14. Aristophanes, Frogs, 103, 1150, 209-219, 22, 220-267, 285-305, 312-400, 402-459, 740, 401 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 112, 372 |
| 15. Euripides, Ion, 714, 716-717, 715 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110 |
16. Aristophanes, Clouds, 603 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110| 603. Παρνασσίαν θ' ὃς κατέχων | |
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17. Aristophanes, Acharnians, 247-253 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 350| 253. ἄγ' ὦ θύγατερ ὅπως τὸ κανοῦν καλὴ καλῶς | |
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| 18. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 6.27-6.28, 6.60 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 255 |
| 19. Sophocles, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279 |
| 20. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 163, 209-215 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 290 |
| 21. Sophocles Iunior, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279 |
| 22. Xenophon, Hellenica, 1.4.12-1.4.13 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 255 |
| 23. Hermippus of Smyrna, Fragments, None (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Edelmann-Singer et al (2020) 65 |
| 24. Cicero, On Laws, 2.35-2.37 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 164 |
25. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 3.21, 3.35 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 19, 90 | 3.21. But when you say that nothing is superior to the world, what do you mean by superior? If you mean more beautiful, I agree; if more suited to our convenience, I agree to that too; but if what you mean is that nothing is wiser than the world, I entirely and absolutely disagree; not because it is difficult to divorce the mind from the eyes, but because the more I do so, the less my mind success in grasping your meaning. 'There is nothing in the universe superior to the world.' No more is there anything on earth superior to our city; but you do not therefore think that our possesses a reasoning, thinking mind? or, because it does not, you do not therefore consider, do you, that an ant is to be rated more highly than this supremely beautiful city, on the ground that a city does not possess sensation whereas an ant has not only sensation, but also a mind that reasons and remembers? You ought to see what you can get your opponent to admit, Balbus, not take for granted anything you like. 3.35. "But your school, Balbus, is wont to trace all things back to an elemental force of a fiery nature, herein as I believe following Heraclitus, although all do not interpret the master in one way; however, as he did not wish his meaning to be understood, let us leave him out; but your doctrine is that all force is of the nature of fire, and that because of this animal creatures perish when their heat fails and also in every realm of nature a thing is alive and vigorous if it is warm. But I for my part do not understand how organisms should perish if their heat is quenched without perishing if deprived of moisture or air, especially as they also perish from excessive heat; |
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| 26. Cicero, Pro Balbo, 55 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 11 |
| 27. Catullus, Poems, 64.251 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279 |
| 28. Vitruvius Pollio, On Architecture, 3.3.5 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 11 |
29. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 5.5.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 255 | 5.5.1. That the Rape of Corê took place in the manner we have described is attested by many ancient historians and poets. Carcinus the tragic poet, for instance, who often visited in Syracuse and witnessed the zeal which the inhabitants displayed in the sacrifices and festive gatherings for both Demeter and Corê, has the following verses in his writings: Demeter's daughter, her whom none may name, By secret schemings Pluton, men say, stole, And then he dropped into earth's depths, whose light Is darkness. Longing for the vanished girl Her mother searched and visited all lands In turn. And Sicily's land by Aetna's crags Was filled with streams of fire which no man could Approach, and groaned throughout its length; in grief Over the maiden now the folk, beloved of Zeus, was perishing without the corn. Hence honour they these goddesses e'en now. |
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30. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 4.1160, 4.1168 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110, 279| 4.1160. nigra melichrus est, inmunda et fetida acosmos, 4.1168. at nimia et mammosa Ceres est ipsa ab Iaccho, | |
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31. Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, 2.16, 2.16.3 (1st cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279, 280| 2.16.3. ὅτι τῶν δώδεκα θεῶν Ἡρακλέα ἄγουσιν Αἰγύπτιοι, καθάπερ καὶ Ἀθηναῖοι Διόνυσον τὸν Διὸς καὶ Κόρης σέβουσιν, ἄλλον τοῦτον Διόνυσον· καὶ ὁ Ἴακχος ὁ μυστικὸς τούτῳ Διονύσῳ, οὐχὶ τῷ Θηβαίῳ, ἐπᾴδεται. | |
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| 32. Plutarch, Alcibiades, 20-21, 19 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 255 |
| 33. Plutarch, Greek And Roman Questions, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
| 34. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 34.15, 35.154 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 90 |
| 35. Plutarch, Themistocles, 15 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 75 |
| 36. Plutarch, On Isis And Osiris, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110 |
| 37. Athenaeus, The Learned Banquet, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
| 38. Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation To The Greeks, 2.21.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110 |
39. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.17.3, 1.31.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 75, 135| 1.17.3. τοῦ δὲ τρίτου τῶν τοίχων ἡ γραφὴ μὴ πυθομένοις ἃ λέγουσιν οὐ σαφής ἐστι, τὰ μέν που διὰ τὸν χρόνον, τὰ δὲ Μίκων οὐ τὸν πάντα ἔγραψε λόγον. Μίνως ἡνίκα Θησέα καὶ τὸν ἄλλον στόλον τῶν παίδων ἦγεν ἐς Κρήτην, ἐρασθεὶς Περιβοίας, ὥς οἱ Θησεὺς μάλιστα ἠναντιοῦτο, καὶ ἄλλα ὑπὸ ὀργῆς ἀπέρριψεν ἐς αὐτὸν καὶ παῖδα οὐκ ἔφη Ποσειδῶνος εἶναι, ἐπεὶ οὐ δύνασθαι τὴν σφραγῖδα, ἣν αὐτὸς φέρων ἔτυχεν, ἀφέντι ἐς θάλασσαν ἀνασῶσαί οἱ. Μίνως μὲν λέγεται ταῦτα εἰπὼν ἀφεῖναι τὴν σφραγῖδα· Θησέα δὲ σφραγῖδά τε ἐκείνην ἔχοντα καὶ στέφανον χρυσοῦν, Ἀμφιτρίτης δῶρον, ἀνελθεῖν λέγουσιν ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης. 1.31.4. ταῦτα μὲν δὴ οὕτω λέγεται, Φλυεῦσι δέ εἰσι καὶ Μυρρινουσίοις τοῖς μὲν Ἀπόλλωνος Διονυσοδότου καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος Σελασφόρου βωμοὶ Διονύσου τε Ἀνθίου καὶ νυμφῶν Ἰσμηνίδων καὶ Γῆς, ἣν Μεγάλην θεὸν ὀνομάζουσι· ναὸς δὲ ἕτερος ἔχει βωμοὺς Δήμητρος Ἀνησιδώρας καὶ Διὸς Κτησίου καὶ Τιθρωνῆς Ἀθηνᾶς καὶ Κόρης Πρωτογόνης καὶ Σεμνῶν ὀνομαζομένων θεῶν· τὸ δὲ ἐν Μυρρινοῦντι ξόανόν ἐστι Κολαινίδος. Ἀθμονεῖς δὲ τιμῶσιν Ἀμαρυσίαν Ἄρτεμιν· | 1.17.3. The painting on the third wall is not intelligible to those unfamiliar with the traditions, partly through age and partly because Micon has not represented in the picture the whole of the legend. When Minos was taking Theseus and the rest of the company of young folk to Crete he fell in love with Periboea, and on meeting with determined opposition from Theseus, hurled insults at him and denied that he was a son of Poseidon, since he could not recover for him the signet-ring, which he happened to be wearing, if he threw it into the sea. With these words Minos is said to have thrown the ring, but they say that Theseus came up from the sea with that ring and also with a gold crown that Amphitrite gave him. 1.31.4. Such is the legend. Phlya and Myrrhinus have altars of Apollo Dionysodotus, Artemis Light-bearer, Dionysus Flower-god, the Ismenian nymphs and Earth, whom they name the Great goddess; a second temple contains altars of Demeter Anesidora (Sender-up of Gifts), Zeus Ctesius (God of Gain), Tithrone Athena, the Maid First-born and the goddesses styled August. The wooden image at Myrrhinus is of Colaenis. |
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| 40. Lucian, Demonax, 11, 5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Edelmann-Singer et al (2020) 158 |
| 41. Lucian, The Dance, 39 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279, 280 |
| 42. Lactantius, Divine Institutes, 54.2.20, 54.2.41 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 90 |
| 44. Epigraphy, Igdolbia, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
| 45. Epigraphy, Seg, 30.914, 32.746 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
| 46. Papyri, P.Gur., None Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
| 47. Orphic Hymns., Hymni, 6.5, 30.3, 32.3, 42.3-42.4, 49.3, 52.5 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 255, 280 |
| 48. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 578.25 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
| 49. Carmina Popularia, Pmg, 879 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279 |
| 51. Epigraphy, Cse Italia, 6.83 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 125 |
| 52. Cat., Poems, 64.251-64.262 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis/eleusinian mysteries Found in books: Gorain (2019) 164 |
| 53. Anon., Suda, None Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110 |
| 54. Various, Anthologia Palatina, 9.82, 11.59, 11.64 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279 |
55. Strabo, Geography, 10.3.13 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 110 | 10.3.13. The poets bear witness to such views as I have suggested. For instance, when Pindar, in the dithyramb which begins with these words,In earlier times there marched the lay of the dithyrambs long drawn out, mentions the hymns sung in honor of Dionysus, both the ancient and the later ones, and then, passing on from these, says,To perform the prelude in thy honor, great Mother, the whirling of cymbals is at hand, and among them, also, the clanging of castanets, and the torch that blazeth beneath the tawny pine-trees, he bears witness to the common relationship between the rites exhibited in the worship of Dionysus among the Greeks and those in the worship of the Mother of the Gods among the Phrygians, for he makes these rites closely akin to one another. And Euripides does likewise, in his Bacchae, citing the Lydian usages at the same time with those of Phrygia, because of their similarity: But ye who left Mt. Tmolus, fortress of Lydia, revel-band of mine, women whom I brought from the land of barbarians as my assistants and travelling companions, uplift the tambourines native to Phrygian cities, inventions of mine and mother Rhea. And again,happy he who, blest man, initiated in the mystic rites, is pure in his life, . . . who, preserving the righteous orgies of the great mother Cybele, and brandishing the thyrsus on high, and wreathed with ivy, doth worship Dionysus. Come, ye Bacchae, come, ye Bacchae, bringing down Bromius, god the child of god, out of the Phrygian mountains into the broad highways of Greece. And again, in the following verses he connects the Cretan usages also with the Phrygian: O thou hiding-bower of the Curetes, and sacred haunts of Crete that gave birth to Zeus, where for me the triple-crested Corybantes in their caverns invented this hide-stretched circlet, and blent its Bacchic revelry with the high-pitched, sweet-sounding breath of Phrygian flutes, and in Rhea's hands placed its resounding noise, to accompany the shouts of the Bacchae, and from Mother Rhea frenzied Satyrs obtained it and joined it to the choral dances of the Trieterides, in whom Dionysus takes delight. And in the Palamedes the Chorus says, Thysa, daughter of Dionysus, who on Ida rejoices with his dear mother in the Iacchic revels of tambourines. |
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56. Vergil, Aeneis, 6.15 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279 | 6.15. And that far-off, inviolable shrine |
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| 57. Plutarch, Quaest. Rom. Et Gr. Vid. Aet. Rom. Et Gr. Quomodo Quis Suos In Virtute Sentiat Profectus, None Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 322 |
| 58. Anecdota Bekkeriana, Anecdota Bekkeriana, 1.235 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 100 |
| 60. Epigraphy, Cratere “François” (Cristofani Et Al. 1977, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 112 |
| 61. Etymologicum Magnum, Catasterismi, None Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
| 62. Anon., Pmg, None Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 279 |
| 63. Io Chius, Pmg, 744 Tagged with subjects: •eleusis, eleusinian,mysteries Found in books: Bernabe et al (2013) 280 |
