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Demosthenes, On The Crown, 259


nanOn arriving at manhood you assisted your mother in her initiations, reading the service-book while she performed the ritual, and helping generally with the paraphernalia. At night it was your duty to mix the libations, to clothe the catechumens in fawn-skins, to wash their bodies, to scour them with the loam and the bran, and, when their lustration was duly performed, to set them on their legs, and give out the hymn: Here I leave my sins behind, Here the better way I find; and it was your pride that no one ever emitted that holy ululation so powerfully as yourself. I can well believe it! When you hear the stentorian tones of the orator, can you doubt that the ejaculations of the acolyte were simply magnificent?


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

211e. But tell me, what would happen if one of you had the fortune to look upon essential beauty entire, pure and unalloyed; not infected with the flesh and color of humanity, and ever so much more of mortal trash? What if he could behold the divine beauty itself, in its unique form?
2. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 3.1-3.2 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Demosthenes, On The Crown, 260 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

4. Philo of Alexandria, Who Is The Heir, 299 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

299. for the first number is that into which it is not possible to receive any idea of either good or evil, since the soul is as yet destitute of all impressions; and the second is that in which we indulge in a rapid course of the passions; and the third is that in which we are healed, repelling the infections of disease, and at last ceasing to feel the evil vigour of the passions; the fourth is that in which we acquire complete and perfect health and vigour, when rejecting what is bad we appear to endeavor to apply to what is good, which previously was not in our power. LX.
5. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 63 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

63. And it has not fallen to the lot of all the suppliants to become guardians of the holy things, but to those only who have arrived at the number fifty, which proclaims remission of offences and perfect liberty and a return to their ancient possessions. "For this," says the Scripture, "is the law concerning the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more; but shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall keep what is to be kept, and shall do no Service.
6. Epictetus, Discourses, 4.4.6-4.4.7 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

7. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.20.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.20.3. The oldest sanctuary of Dionysus is near the theater. Within the precincts are two temples and two statues of Dionysus, the Eleuthereus (Deliverer) and the one Alcamenes made of ivory and gold. There are paintings here—Dionysus bringing Hephaestus up to heaven. One of the Greek legends is that Hephaestus, when he was born, was thrown down by Hera. In revenge he sent as a gift a golden chair with invisible fetters. When Hera sat down she was held fast, and Hephaestus refused to listen to any other of the gods save Dionysus—in him he reposed the fullest trust—and after making him drunk Dionysus brought him to heaven. Besides this picture there are also represented Pentheus and Lycurgus paying the penalty of their insolence to Dionysus, Ariadne asleep, Theseus putting out to sea, and Dionysus on his arrival to carry off Ariadne.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschines Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
afterlife Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 79
athens, tribes and kinship groups Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
communal religion Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
contemplation Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
conversion, moral Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
conversion, philosophical Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
conversion, ritual Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
cosmology/cosmological Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
cultic ritual practice, feasting Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
cultural memory, public vs. private ritual practice Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
cultural memory, tribes and kinship groups Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
demosthenes Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 79; Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
dionysiac Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
dionysos Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
dionysos (bacchus, god), dionysia festivals Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
education/educational Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
emotions, fear Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
epistrophê Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
experience/experiential Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 79
festivals, anthesteria Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
festivals, apatouria Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
festivals, dionysia Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
festivals, panathenaia Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
festivals, proerosia Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
festivals, pyanopsia Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
festivals, thesmophoria Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
goal/telos of philosophical life Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
groups, dionysian Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
individuality Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
isis Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
metanoia/metanoeō Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
mithras Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
mysteries, dionysian mysteries Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
mysteries, ecstasy Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
mysteries, eleusis mysteries Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
mysteries, initiation Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
mysteries Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
mystery cult Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
parker, robert c. t. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
pathos Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
pausanias Jeong, Pauline Baptism among the Mysteries: Ritual Messages and the Promise of Initiation (2023) 79
perfection Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
periagôgê Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
philosophy, philosophical Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
plato, platonism Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
poland, franz Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
pythagorean Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
ritual Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
rituals, ceremony Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
rituals, music and dance Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
sacrifice (thysia)' Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
samothrace Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
semantics Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
senses Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
socratic Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
soul Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204; Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228
turning soul Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
universe Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
vertical metaphor/movement Despotis and Lohr, Religious and Philosophical Conversion in the Ancient Mediterranean Traditions (2022) 204
whitehead, david Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 263
zeus Rüpke, The individual in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean (2014) 228