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Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 1.2.4

nan Now it is an excellent thing, methinks, as all men of understanding must agree, to receive in exchange for mortal labours an immortal fame. In the case of Heracles, for instance, it is generally agreed that during the whole time which he spent among men he submitted to great and continuous labours and perils willingly, in order that he might confer benefits upon the race of men and thereby gain immortality; and likewise in the case of other great and good men, some have attained to heroic honours and others to honours equal to the divine, and all have been thought to be worthy of great praise, since history immortalizes their achievements.

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1. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 10.22-10.23 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
2. Aristophanes, Birds, 867-887, 866 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 866. ὦ Σουνιέρακε χαῖρ' ἄναξ Πελαργικέ.
3. Herodotus, Histories, 5.67.5 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 5.67.5. Besides other honors paid to Adrastus by the Sicyonians, they celebrated his lamentable fate with tragic choruses in honor not of Dionysus but of Adrastus. Cleisthenes, however, gave the choruses back to Dionysus and the rest of the worship to Melanippus.
4. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 717a. Therefore all the great labor that impious men spend upon the gods is in vain, but that of the pious is most profitable to them all. Here, then, is the mark at which we must aim; but as to shafts we should shoot, and (so to speak) the flight of them,—what kind of shafts, think you, would fly most straight to the mark? First of all, we say, if—after the honors paid to the Olympians and the gods who keep the State—we should assign the Even and the Left as their honors to the gods of the under-world, we would be aiming most straight at the mark of piety—
5. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
6. Aristotle, On The Universe, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
7. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 4.40.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 4.40.2.  And since he observed that of the men of former times Perseus and certain others had gained glory which was held in everlasting remembrance from the campaigns which they had waged in foreign lands and the hazard attending the labours they had performed, he was eager to follow the examples they had set. As a consequence he revealed his undertaking to the king and quickly received his approval. It was not so much that Pelias was eager to bring distinction to the youth that he hoped that in the hazardous expeditions he would lose his life;
8. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.13.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 5.13.3. The woodman is one of the servants of Zeus, and the task assigned to him is to supply cities and private individuals with wood for sacrifices at a fixed rate, wood of the white poplar, but of no other tree, being allowed. If anybody, whether Elean or stranger, eat of the meat of the victim sacrificed to Pelops, he may not enter the temple of Zeus. The same rule applies to those who sacrifice to Telephus at Pergamus on the river Caicus ; these too may not go up to the temple of Asclepius before they have bathed.
9. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.33 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 8.33. Right has the force of an oath, and that is why Zeus is called the God of Oaths. Virtue is harmony, and so are health and all good and God himself; this is why they say that all things are constructed according to the laws of harmony. The love of friends is just concord and equality. We should not pay equal worship to gods and heroes, but to the gods always, with reverent silence, in white robes, and after purification, to the heroes only from midday onwards. Purification is by cleansing, baptism and lustration, and by keeping clean from all deaths and births and all pollution, and abstaining from meat and flesh of animals that have died, mullets, gurnards, eggs and egg-sprung animals, beans, and the other abstinences prescribed by those who perform rites in the sanctuaries.
10. Epigraphy, Lscg, 4, 18
11. Epigraphy, Lss, 19

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adrastos	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
aeneas	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223
amalgam,amalgamation,amphiaraus (amphiaraos)	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223
bellerophontes	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223
burial mound	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
burkert,w.	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223
colour of animal victim,white clothing	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
dead,cult ofthe dead	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
diodorus siculus	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223, 224
dioklos	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
eumolpos	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
euripides	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
head of orpheus	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
hekate	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
heracles	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223, 224
hero,heroism,hero-cult	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223, 224
hero,heroism	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223, 224
herodotus	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
heros,eleusis	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
iconographical representations of sacrifice	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
immortal divrnities	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
immortality,,contrast with mortality and relation to ritual practices	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
immortalization	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223, 224
iphigenia	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223
jason	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223, 224
keleos	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
konnidas	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
linos	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
melampous	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223
melichos	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
mortal side of hero'	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
mortality,contrast with immortality and relation to ritual practices	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
muses	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
nagy,g.	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
nauseiros	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
perseus	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223, 224
phaiax	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
pherrephatte	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
pindar	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
plato	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
plutarch and sacrificial ritual	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
polyxenos	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
pythagoras	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
socrates	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
sophocles	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 224
teukros	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
themis	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334
theseus	Finkelberg (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays, 223
threptos	Ekroth (2013), The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period, 334