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Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 490-498
εὐωνύμους τε, καὶ δίαιταν ἥντινα which sinister—their various modes of life, their mutual feuds and loves, and their consortings; and the smoothness of their entrails, and what color the gall must have to please
ἔχουσʼ ἕκαστοι, καὶ πρὸς ἀλλήλους τίνες which sinister—their various modes of life, their mutual feuds and loves, and their consortings; and the smoothness of their entrails, and what color the gall must have to please
ἔχθραι τε καὶ στέργηθρα καὶ συνεδρίαι· which sinister—their various modes of life, their mutual feuds and loves, and their consortings; and the smoothness of their entrails, and what color the gall must have to please
σπλάγχνων τε λειότητα, καὶ χροιὰν τίνα which sinister—their various modes of life, their mutual feuds and loves, and their consortings; and the smoothness of their entrails, and what color the gall must have to please
ἔχουσʼ ἂν εἴη δαίμοσιν πρὸς ἡδονὴν which sinister—their various modes of life, their mutual feuds and loves, and their consortings; and the smoothness of their entrails, and what color the gall must have to please
χολή, λοβοῦ τε ποικίλην εὐμορφίαν. the gods, also the speckled symmetry of the liver-lobe; and the thigh-bones, wrapped in fat, and the long chine I burned and initiated mankind into an occult art. Also I cleared their vision to discern signs from flames,which were obscure before this.
κνίσῃ τε κῶλα συγκαλυπτὰ καὶ μακρὰν the gods, also the speckled symmetry of the liver-lobe; and the thigh-bones, wrapped in fat, and the long chine I burned and initiated mankind into an occult art. Also I cleared their vision to discern signs from flames,which were obscure before this.
ὀσφῦν πυρώσας δυστέκμαρτον ἐς τέχνην the gods, also the speckled symmetry of the liver-lobe; and the thigh-bones, wrapped in fat, and the long chine I burned and initiated mankind into an occult art. Also I cleared their vision to discern signs from flames,which were obscure before this.
ὥδωσα θνητούς, καὶ φλογωπὰ σήματα the gods, also the speckled symmetry of the liver-lobe; and the thigh-bones, wrapped in fat, and the long chine I burned and initiated mankind into an occult art. Also I cleared their vision to discern signs from flames,which were obscure before this.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 18.9-18.14 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 18.9. כִּי אַתָּה בָּא אֶל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לָךְ לֹא־תִלְמַד לַעֲשׂוֹת כְּתוֹעֲבֹת הַגּוֹיִם הָהֵם׃ 18.11. וְחֹבֵר חָבֶר וְשֹׁאֵל אוֹב וְיִדְּעֹנִי וְדֹרֵשׁ אֶל־הַמֵּתִים׃ 18.12. כִּי־תוֹעֲבַת יְהוָה כָּל־עֹשֵׂה אֵלֶּה וּבִגְלַל הַתּוֹעֵבֹת הָאֵלֶּה יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מוֹרִישׁ אוֹתָם מִפָּנֶיךָ׃ 18.13. תָּמִים תִּהְיֶה עִם יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ׃ 18.14. כִּי הַגּוֹיִם הָאֵלֶּה אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה יוֹרֵשׁ אוֹתָם אֶל־מְעֹנְנִים וְאֶל־קֹסְמִים יִשְׁמָעוּ וְאַתָּה לֹא כֵן נָתַן לְךָ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ׃ 18.9. When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations." 18.10. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer," 18.11. or a charmer, or one that consulteth a ghost or a familiar spirit, or a necromancer." 18.12. For whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD; and because of these abominations the LORD thy God is driving them out from before thee." 18.13. Thou shalt be whole-hearted with the LORD thy God." 18.14. For these nations, that thou art to dispossess, hearken unto soothsayers, and unto diviners; but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do."
2. Hebrew Bible, Job, 28 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
3. Hesiod, Works And Days, 110-120, 202-212, 109 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 109. Filling both land and sea, while every day
4. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 402-405, 408-411, 442-471, 476-489, 491-506, 400 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 400. δακρυσίστακτα δʼ ἀπʼ ὄσσων 400. Shedding from my eyes a coursing flood of tears I wet my tender cheeks with their moist streams. For Zeus, holding this unenviable power by self-appointed laws
5. Euripides, Suppliant Women, 202-204, 201 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
6. Herodotus, Histories, 2.49.2, 3.132.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 2.49.2. I say, then, that Melampus acquired the prophetic art, being a discerning man, and that, besides many other things which he learned from Egypt, he also taught the Greeks things concerning Dionysus, altering few of them; for I will not say that what is done in Egypt in connection with the god and what is done among the Greeks originated independently: for they would then be of an Hellenic character and not recently introduced. 3.132.2. When the Egyptian physicians who until now had attended the king were about to be impaled for being less skilful than a Greek, Democedes interceded with the king for them and saved them; and he saved an Elean seer, too, who had been a retainer of Polycrates' and was forgotten among the slaves. Democedes was a man of considerable influence with the King.
7. Sophocles, Antigone, 365-367, 361 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
8. Aratus Solensis, Phaenomena, 104-114, 96-100 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 100. εὔκηλος φορέοιτο· λόγος γε μὲν ἐντρέχει ἄλλος
9. Menander, Dyscolus, 448-454, 447 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
10. Anon., 1 Enoch, 8.2 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) 8.2. colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they 8. And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all,colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they,were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraqijal (taught) astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven . . .
11. Varro, On Agriculture, 1.2.16, 2.1.13 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
12. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.8.1-1.8.7, 5.64.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.8.1.  Concerning the first generation of the universe this is the account which we have received. But the first men to be born, he says, led an undisciplined and bestial life, setting out one by one to secure their sustece and taking for their food both the tenderest herbs and the fruits of wild trees. Then 1.8.2.  since they were attacked by the wild beasts, they came to each other's aid, being instructed by expediency, and when gathered together in this way by reason of their fear, they gradually came to recognize their mutual characteristics. 1.8.3.  And though the sounds which they made were at first unintelligible and indistinct, yet gradually they came to give articulation to their speech, and by agreeing with one another upon symbols for each thing which presented itself to them, made known among themselves the significance which was to be attached to each term. 1.8.4.  But since groups of this kind arose over every part of the inhabited world, not all men had the same language, inasmuch as every group organized the elements of its speech by mere chance. This is the explanation of the present existence of every conceivable kind of language, and, furthermore, out of these first groups to be formed came all the original nations of the world. 1.8.5.  Now the first men, since none of the things useful for life had yet been discovered, led a wretched existence, having no clothing to cover them, knowing not the use of dwelling and fire, and also being totally ignorant of cultivated food. 1.8.6.  For since they also even neglected the harvesting of the wild food, they laid by no store of its fruits against their needs; consequently large numbers of them perished in the winters because of the cold and the lack of food. 1.8.7.  Little by little, however, experience taught them both to take to the caves in winter and to store such fruits as could be preserved. 5.64.4.  But some historians, and Ephorus is one of them, record that the Idaean Dactyli were in fact born on the Mt. Idê which is in Phrygia and passed over to Europe together with Mygdon; and since they were wizards, they practised charms and initiatory rites and mysteries and in the course of a sojourn in Samothrace they amazed the natives of that island not a little by their skill in such matters. And it was at this time, we are further told, that Orpheus, who was endowed with an exceptional gift of poesy and song, also became a pupil of theirs, and he was subsequently the first to introduce initiatory rites and mysteries to the Greeks.
13. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.89-1.112 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
14. Tibullus, Elegies, 1.3.35-1.3.50, 1.10.7-1.10.12 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
15. Plutarch, Moralia, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
16. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 9.27.4, 13.12.3-13.12.4 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
17. Vergil, Georgics, 1.127-1.132 1.127. No tilth makes placeName key= 1.128. Nor Gargarus his own harvests so admire. 1.129. Why tell of him, who, having launched his seed 1.130. Sets on for close encounter, and rakes smooth 1.131. The dry dust hillocks, then on the tender corn 1.132. Lets in the flood, whose waters follow fain;

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
aedon	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
aeschylus,prometheus bound	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 477
alexandria	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29
altars	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
angelic sin,as epistemological transgression	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
anger	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
anthropomorphism,moral	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
arachne	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
aristobulus (philosopher)	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29
artapanus	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29
asael,azael,as culture-hero	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
asael,azael,as teacher	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
athens	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
audience	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
bile	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
bird interpreters	Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 7
birds,divination	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 477
birds	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
cainites as,fallen angels as	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
cholos	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
chrêsmologos	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
civilization,as decline	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
conflicts	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
cosmetics,cosmetology	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
cultural memory,oracles and divination	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 477
daimones	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
darius	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
democedes of croton	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
dillery,john	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
diodorus siculus	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
divination,ancient discussions of	Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 7, 8
divination,and authority	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
divination,and patronage	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
divination	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
emotional restraint,narratology of	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
emotions,joy	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
empathy	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
enochic literature,and the torah	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
enthusiastic prophecy	Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 8
ephorus of cyme	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
eris	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
eumaeus	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
golden age,as moral value	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 92
golden age,in georgic	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 92
golden age,in myth	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 92
graf,fritz	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
hera,angry	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
hermoni	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
herodotus	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
homer	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
idaean dactyls	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
knowledge,corrupting power of	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
knowledge,revealed	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
literary production	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
magic,as angelic teaching	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
magic,greco-roman etiologies of	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
mania,as specialist	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
mania,poet as	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
mania	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
melampus (pseudo-)	Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 7
metalworking,as angelic teaching	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
metalworking,greco-roman etiologies of	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
metamorphosis	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
moses,as inventor	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29
moses,as philosopher	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29
oikos,human	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
oracles,divination	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 477
oracles,reading of entrails	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 477
oracles,use of birds'	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 477
orge	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
orpheus	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
pathos (πάθος)	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
pharmacology,as angelic teaching	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
pharmacology	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
philomele	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
philosophy	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29
polycrates of samos	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
polytechnus	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
preservation	Bartels (2017), Plato's Pragmatic Project: A Reading of Plato's Laws, 47
procne	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
prometheus	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29; Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 7, 8; Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40; de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
prometheus bound	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
pythagoras	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29
sacrifices	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
semele	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
semihazah,semhazai,as teacher	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
sibyls	Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 8
socrates	Bloch (2022), Ancient Jewish Diaspora: Essays on Hellenism, 29; Johnston (2008), Ancient Greek Divination, 8
solon	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
space,as expression of emotion	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294
textual transmission,premodern	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
torah,and enochic literature	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
union,lawful	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 239
varro	Perkell (1989), The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, 92
virtue	Bartels (2017), Plato's Pragmatic Project: A Reading of Plato's Laws, 47
weather signs (see divination,and weather signs)	Johnston and Struck (2005), Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, 178
women,vanity of	Reed (2005), Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity: The Reception of Enochic Literature. 40
zeus	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 294