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Euripides, Bacchae, 286-293

nan	o that by his means men may have good things. And do you laugh at him, because he was sewn up in Zeus’ thigh? I will teach you that this is well: when Zeus snatched him out of the lighting-flame, and led the child as a god to Olympus

μηρῷ; διδάξω σʼ ὡς καλῶς ἔχει τόδε.

o that by his means men may have good things. And do you laugh at him, because he was sewn up in Zeus’ thigh? I will teach you that this is well: when Zeus snatched him out of the lighting-flame, and led the child as a god to Olympus

ἐπεί νιν ἥρπασʼ ἐκ πυρὸς κεραυνίου

Ζεύς, ἐς δʼ Ὄλυμπον βρέφος ἀνήγαγεν θεόν

Ἥρα νιν ἤθελʼ ἐκβαλεῖν ἀπʼ οὐρανοῦ·

Hera wished to banish him from the sky, but Zeus, as a god, had a counter-contrivance. Having broken a part of the air which surrounds the earth, he gave this to Hera as a pledge protecting the real A line of text has apparently been lost here. Dionysus from her hostility. But in time

Ζεὺς δʼ ἀντεμηχανήσαθʼ οἷα δὴ θεός.

ῥήξας μέρος τι τοῦ χθόνʼ ἐγκυκλουμένου

αἰθέρος, ἔθηκε τόνδʼ ὅμηρον ἐκδιδούς

nan	Hera wished to banish him from the sky, but Zeus, as a god, had a counter-contrivance. Having broken a part of the air which surrounds the earth, he gave this to Hera as a pledge protecting the real A line of text has apparently been lost here. Dionysus from her hostility. But in time

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1. Homer, Iliad, 18.102 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

18.102. /hath he fallen, and had need of me to be a warder off of ruin. Now therefore, seeing I return not to my dear native land, neither proved anywise a light of deliverance to Patroclus nor to my other comrades, those many that have been slain by goodly Hector, but abide here by the ships. Profitless burden upon the earth—

2. Homer, Odyssey, 18.67-18.68, 19.450 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 2.33-2.48 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

4. Aristophanes, Birds, 988, 987 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

987. καὶ φείδου μηδὲν μηδ' αἰετοῦ ἐν νεφέλῃσιν

5. Aristophanes, Clouds, 300-313, 332, 299 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

6. Euripides, Bacchae, 101-104, 176-177, 181-183, 192-196, 206, 208, 214-285, 287-369, 485, 520-529, 608-609, 629-631, 88-100 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

100. τέλεσαν, ταυρόκερων θεὸν

100. had perfected him, the bull-horned god, and he crowned him with crowns of snakes, for which reason Maenads cloak their wild prey over their locks. Choru

7. Euripides, Hecuba, 841 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

841. ὦ δέσποτ', ὦ μέγιστον ̔́Ελλησιν φάος

8. Euripides, Hercules Furens, 531 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

531. Dearest of all mankind to me! Amphitryon

9. Herodotus, Histories, 2.65, 2.139, 2.146, 3.122.2, 6.135, 8.65 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

2.65. but the Egyptians in this and in all other matters are exceedingly strict against desecration of their temples. ,Although Egypt has Libya on its borders, it is not a country of many animals. All of them are held sacred; some of these are part of men's households and some not; but if I were to say why they are left alone as sacred, I should end up talking of matters of divinity, which I am especially averse to treating; I have never touched upon such except where necessity has compelled me. ,But I will indicate how it is customary to deal with the animals. Men and women are appointed guardians to provide nourishment for each kind respectively; a son inherits this office from his father. ,Townsfolk in each place, when they pay their vows, pray to the god to whom the animal is dedicated, shaving all or one half or one third of their children's heads, and weighing the hair in a balance against a sum of silver; then the weight in silver of the hair is given to the female guardian of the creatures, who buys fish with it and feeds them. ,Thus, food is provided for them. Whoever kills one of these creatures intentionally is punished with death; if he kills accidentally, he pays whatever penalty the priests appoint. Whoever kills an ibis or a hawk, intentionally or not, must die for it. 2.139. Now the departure of the Ethiopian (they said) came about in this way. After seeing in a dream one who stood over him and urged him to gather together all the Priests in Egypt and cut them in half, he fled from the country. ,Seeing this vision, he said, he supposed it to be a manifestation sent to him by the gods, so that he might commit sacrilege and so be punished by gods or men; he would not (he said) do so, but otherwise, for the time foretold for his rule over Egypt was now fulfilled, after which he was to depart: ,for when he was still in Ethiopia, the oracles that are consulted by the people of that country told him that he was fated to reign fifty years over Egypt . Seeing that this time was now completed and that he was troubled by what he saw in his dream, Sabacos departed from Egypt of his own volition. 2.146. With regard to these two, Pan and Dionysus, one may follow whatever story one thinks most credible; but I give my own opinion concerning them here. Had Dionysus son of Semele and Pan son of Penelope appeared in Hellas and lived there to old age, like Heracles the son of Amphitryon, it might have been said that they too (like Heracles) were but men, named after the older Pan and Dionysus, the gods of antiquity; ,but as it is, the Greek story has it that no sooner was Dionysus born than Zeus sewed him up in his thigh and carried him away to Nysa in Ethiopia beyond Egypt ; and as for Pan, the Greeks do not know what became of him after his birth. It is therefore plain to me that the Greeks learned the names of these two gods later than the names of all the others, and trace the birth of both to the time when they gained the knowledge. 3.122.2. for Polycrates was the first of the Greeks whom we know to aim at the mastery of the sea, leaving out of account Minos of Cnossus and any others who before him may have ruled the sea; of what may be called the human race Polycrates was the first, and he had great hope of ruling Ionia and the Islands. 6.135. So Miltiades sailed back home in a sorry condition, neither bringing money for the Athenians nor having won Paros; he had besieged the town for twenty-six days and ravaged the island. ,The Parians learned that Timo the under-priestess of the goddesses had been Miltiades' guide and desired to punish her for this. Since they now had respite from the siege, they sent messengers to Delphi to ask if they should put the under-priestess to death for guiding their enemies to the capture of her native country, and for revealing to Miltiades the rites that no male should know. ,But the Pythian priestess forbade them, saying that Timo was not responsible: Miltiades was doomed to make a bad end, and an apparition had led him in these evils. 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.

10. Plato, Cratylus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

396d. Hermogenes. Indeed, Socrates, you do seem to me to be uttering oracles, exactly like an inspired prophet. Socrates. Yes, Hermogenes, and I am convinced that the inspiration came to me from Euthyphro the Prospaltian. For I was with him and listening to him a long time early this morning. So he must have been inspired, and he not only filled my ears but took possession of my soul with his superhuman wisdom. So I think this is our duty:

11. Plato, Euthyphro, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3c. Socrates. My dear Euthyphro, their ridicule is perhaps of no consequence. For the Athenians, I fancy, are not much concerned, if they think a man is clever, provided he does not impart his clever notions to others; but when they think he makes others to be like himself

12. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

13. Sophocles, Electra, 1354 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

14. Sophocles, Oedipus The King, 301-304, 385-395, 300 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

15. Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.4.20, 6.3.6 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2.4.20. And Cleocritus, the herald of the initiated, i.e. in the Eleusinian mysteries. a man with a very fine voice, obtained silence and said: Fellow citizens, why do you drive us out of the city? why do you wish to kill us? For we never did you any harm, but we have shared with you in the most solemn rites and sacrifices and the most splendid festivals, we have been companions in the dance and schoolmates and comrades in arms, and we have braved many dangers with you both by land and by sea in defense of the 404 B.C. common safety and freedom of us both. 6.3.6. The right course, indeed, would have been for us not to take up arms against one another in the beginning, since the tradition is that the first strangers to whom Triptolemus, Triptolemus of Eleusis had, according to the legend, carried from Attica throughout Greece both the cult of Demeter and the knowledge of her art — agriculture. Heracles was the traditional ancestor of the Spartan kings (cp. III. iii.) while the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, were putative sons of Tyndareus of Sparta. our ancestor, revealed the mystic rites of Demeter and Core were Heracles, your state’s founder, and the Dioscuri, your citizens; and, further, that it was upon Peloponnesus that he first bestowed the seed of Demeter’s fruit. How, then, can it be right, 371 B.C. either that you should ever come to destroy the fruit of those very men from whom you received the seed, or that we should not desire those very men, to whom we gave the seed, to obtain the greatest possible abundance of food? But if it is indeed ordered of the gods that wars should come among men, then we ought to begin war as tardily as we can, and, when it has come, to bring it to an end as speedily as possible.

16. Cicero, On Divination, 1.116 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

1.116. Hic magna quaedam exoritur, neque ea naturalis, sed artificiosa somniorum Antiphontis interpretatio eodemque modo et oraculorum et vaticinationum sunt enim explanatores, ut grammatici poe+tarum . Nam ut aurum et argentum, aes, ferrum frustra natura divina genuisset, nisi eadem docuisset, quem ad modum ad eorum venas perveniretur, nec fruges terrae bacasve arborum cum utilitate ulla generi humano dedisset, nisi earum cultus et conditiones tradidisset, materiave quicquam iuvaret, nisi consectionis eius fabricam haberemus, sic cum omni utilitate, quam di hominibus dederunt, ars aliqua coniuncta est, per quam illa utilitas percipi possit. Item igitur somniis, vaticinationibus, oraclis, quod erant multa obscura, multa ambigua, explanationes adhibitae sunt interpretum.

1.116. At this point it is pertinent to mention Antiphons well-known theory of the interpretation of dreams. His view is that the interpreters of dreams depending upon technical skill and not upon inspiration. He has the same view as to the interpretation of oracles and of frenzied utterances; for they all have their interpreters, just as poets have their commentators. Now it is clear that divine nature would have done a vain thing if she had merely created iron, copper, silver, and gold and had not shown us how to reach the veins in which those metals lie; the gift of field crops and orchard fruits would have been useless to the human race without a knowledge of how to cultivate them and prepare them for food; and building material would be of no service without the carpenters art to convert it into lumber. So it is with everything that the gods have given for the advantage of mankind, there has been joined some art whereby that advantage may be turned to account. The same is true of dreams, prophecies, and oracles: since many of them were obscure and doubtful, resort was had to the skill of professional interpreters.

17. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 12.10.3-12.10.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

12.10.3. And shortly thereafter the city was moved to another site and received another name, its founders being Lampon and Xenocritus; the circumstances of its founding were as follows. The Sybarites who were driven a second time from their native city dispatched ambassadors to Greece, to the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, requesting that they assist their repatriation and take part in the settlement. 12.10.4. Now the Lacedaemonians paid no attention to them, but the Athenians promised to join in the enterprise, and they manned ten ships and sent them to the Sybarites under the leadership of Lampon and Xenocritus; they further sent word to the several cities of the Peloponnesus, offering a share in the colony to anyone who wished to take part in it.

18. Hyginus, Fabulae (Genealogiae), 167 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

19. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.256-3.315 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

20. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3.4.2-3.4.3, 3.10.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3.4.2. Κάδμος δὲ ἀνθʼ ὧν ἔκτεινεν ἀίδιον 3 -- ἐνιαυτὸν ἐθήτευσεν Ἄρει· ἦν δὲ ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς τότε ὀκτὼ ἔτη. μετὰ δὲ τὴν θητείαν Ἀθηνᾶ αὐτῷ τὴν βασιλείαν 4 -- κατεσκεύασε, Ζεὺς δὲ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ γυναῖκα Ἁρμονίαν, Ἀφροδίτης καὶ Ἄρεος θυγατέρα. καὶ πάντες θεοὶ καταλιπόντες τὸν οὐρανόν, ἐν τῇ Καδμείᾳ τὸν γάμον εὐωχούμενοι καθύμνησαν. ἔδωκε δὲ αὐτῇ Κάδμος πέπλον καὶ τὸν ἡφαιστότευκτον ὅρμον, ὃν ὑπὸ Ἡφαίστου λέγουσί τινες δοθῆναι Κάδμῳ, Φερεκύδης δὲ ὑπὸ Εὐρώπης· ὃν παρὰ Διὸς αὐτὴν λαβεῖν. γίνονται δὲ Κάδμῳ θυγατέρες μὲν Αὐτονόη Ἰνὼ Σεμέλη Ἀγαυή, παῖς δὲ Πολύδωρος. Ἰνὼ μὲν οὖν Ἀθάμας ἔγημεν, Αὐτονόην δὲ Ἀρισταῖος, Ἀγαυὴν δὲ Ἐχίων. 3.4.3. Σεμέλης δὲ Ζεὺς ἐρασθεὶς Ἥρας κρύφα συνευνάζεται. ἡ δὲ ἐξαπατηθεῖσα ὑπὸ Ἥρας, κατανεύσαντος αὐτῇ Διὸς πᾶν τὸ αἰτηθὲν ποιήσειν, αἰτεῖται τοιοῦτον αὐτὸν ἐλθεῖν οἷος ἦλθε μνηστευόμενος Ἥραν. Ζεὺς δὲ μὴ δυνάμενος ἀνανεῦσαι παραγίνεται εἰς τὸν θάλαμον αὐτῆς ἐφʼ ἅρματος ἀστραπαῖς ὁμοῦ καὶ βρονταῖς, καὶ κεραυνὸν ἵησιν. Σεμέλης δὲ διὰ τὸν φόβον ἐκλιπούσης, ἑξαμηνιαῖον τὸ βρέφος ἐξαμβλωθὲν ἐκ τοῦ πυρὸς ἁρπάσας ἐνέρραψε τῷ μηρῷ. ἀποθανούσης δὲ Σεμέλης, αἱ λοιπαὶ Κάδμου θυγατέρες διήνεγκαν λόγον, συνηυνῆσθαι θνητῷ τινι Σεμέλην καὶ καταψεύσασθαι Διός, καὶ ὅτι 1 -- διὰ τοῦτο ἐκεραυνώθη. κατὰ δὲ τὸν χρόνον τὸν καθήκοντα Διόνυσον γεννᾷ Ζεὺς λύσας τὰ ῥάμματα, καὶ δίδωσιν Ἑρμῇ. ὁ δὲ κομίζει πρὸς Ἰνὼ καὶ Ἀθάμαντα καὶ πείθει τρέφειν ὡς κόρην. ἀγανακτήσασα δὲ Ἥρα μανίαν αὐτοῖς ἐνέβαλε, καὶ Ἀθάμας μὲν τὸν πρεσβύτερον παῖδα Λέαρχον ὡς ἔλαφον θηρεύσας ἀπέκτεινεν, Ἰνὼ δὲ τὸν Μελικέρτην εἰς πεπυρωμένον λέβητα ῥίψασα, εἶτα βαστάσασα μετὰ νεκροῦ τοῦ παιδὸς ἥλατο κατὰ βυθοῦ. 1 -- καὶ Λευκοθέα μὲν αὐτὴν καλεῖται, Παλαίμων δὲ ὁ παῖς, οὕτως ὀνομασθέντες ὑπὸ τῶν πλεόντων· τοῖς χειμαζομένοις γὰρ βοηθοῦσιν. ἐτέθη δὲ ἐπὶ Μελικέρτῃ ὁ 2 -- ἀγὼν τῶν Ἰσθμίων, Σισύφου θέντος. Διόνυσον δὲ Ζεὺς εἰς ἔριφον ἀλλάξας τὸν Ἥρας θυμὸν ἔκλεψε, καὶ λαβὼν αὐτὸν Ἑρμῆς πρὸς νύμφας ἐκόμισεν ἐν Νύσῃ κατοικούσας τῆς Ἀσίας, ἃς ὕστερον Ζεὺς καταστερίσας ὠνόμασεν Ὑάδας. 3.10.3. Ταϋγέτη δὲ ἐκ Διὸς ἐγέννησε 1 -- Λακεδαίμονα, ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ Λακεδαίμων ἡ χώρα καλεῖται. Λακεδαίμονος δὲ καὶ Σπάρτης τῆς Εὐρώτα, ὃς ἦν ἀπὸ Λέλεγος αὐτόχθονος καὶ νύμφης νηίδος Κλεοχαρείας, Ἀμύκλας καὶ Εὐρυδίκη, ἣν ἔγημεν Ἀκρίσιος. Ἀμύκλα δὲ καὶ Διομήδης τῆς Λαπίθου Κυνόρτης καὶ Ὑάκινθος. τοῦτον εἶναι τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος ἐρώμενον λέγουσιν, ὃν δίσκῳ βαλὼν ἄκων ἀπέκτεινε. Κυνόρτου δὲ Περιήρης, ὃς γαμεῖ Γοργοφόνην τὴν Περσέως, καθάπερ Στησίχορός φησι, καὶ τίκτει Τυνδάρεων Ἰκάριον Ἀφαρέα Λεύκιππον. Ἀφαρέως μὲν οὖν καὶ Ἀρήνης τῆς Οἰβάλου 1 -- Λυγκεύς τε καὶ Ἴδας καὶ Πεῖσος· κατὰ πολλοὺς δὲ Ἴδας ἐκ Ποσειδῶνος λέγεται. Λυγκεὺς δὲ ὀξυδερκίᾳ διήνεγκεν, ὡς καὶ τὰ ὑπὸ γῆν θεωρεῖν. Λευκίππου δὲ θυγατέρες ἐγένοντο Ἱλάειρα καὶ Φοίβη· ταύτας ἁρπάσαντες ἔγημαν Διόσκουροι. πρὸς δὲ ταύταις Ἀρσινόην ἐγέννησε. ταύτῃ μίγνυται Ἀπόλλων, ἡ δὲ Ἀσκληπιὸν γεννᾷ. τινὲς δὲ Ἀσκληπιὸν οὐκ ἐξ Ἀρσινόης τῆς Λευκίππου λέγουσιν, ἀλλʼ ἐκ Κορωνίδος τῆς Φλεγύου ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ. καί φασιν ἐρασθῆναι ταύτης Ἀπόλλωνα καὶ εὐθέως συνελθεῖν· τὴν δὲ 1 -- παρὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς γνώμην ἑλομένην 2 -- Ἴσχυϊ τῷ Καινέως ἀδελφῷ συνοικεῖν. Ἀπόλλων δὲ τὸν μὲν ἀπαγγείλαντα κόρακα καταρᾶται, ὃν 3 -- τέως λευκὸν ὄντα ἐποίησε μέλανα, αὐτὴν δὲ ἀπέκτεινε. καιομένης δὲ αὐτῆς 4 -- ἁρπάσας τὸ βρέφος ἐκ τῆς πυρᾶς πρὸς Χείρωνα τὸν Κένταυρον ἤνεγκε, παρʼ ᾧ 1 -- καὶ τὴν ἰατρικὴν καὶ τὴν κυνηγετικὴν τρεφόμενος ἐδιδάχθη. καὶ γενόμενος χειρουργικὸς καὶ τὴν τέχνην ἀσκήσας ἐπὶ πολὺ οὐ μόνον ἐκώλυέ τινας ἀποθνήσκειν, ἀλλʼ ἀνήγειρε καὶ τοὺς ἀποθανόντας· παρὰ γὰρ Ἀθηνᾶς λαβὼν τὸ ἐκ τῶν φλεβῶν τῆς Γοργόνος ῥυὲν αἷμα, τῷ μὲν ἐκ τῶν ἀριστερῶν ῥυέντι πρὸς φθορὰν ἀνθρώπων ἐχρῆτο, τῷ δὲ ἐκ τῶν δεξιῶν πρὸς σωτηρίαν, καὶ διὰ τούτου 2 -- τοὺς τεθνηκότας ἀνήγειρεν. εὗρον 3 -- δέ τινας λεγομένους ἀναστῆναι ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, Καπανέα καὶ Λυκοῦργον, ὡς Στησίχορός φησιν ἐν Ἐριφύλῃ, Ἱππόλυτον, ὡς ὁ τὰ Ναυπακτικὰ συγγράψας λέγει, Τυνδάρεων, ὥς φησι Πανύασις, 1 -- Ὑμέναιον, ὡς οἱ Ὀρφικοὶ λέγουσι, Γλαῦκον τὸν Μίνωος, ὡς Μελησαγόρας λέγε ι.

21. Plutarch, Fragments, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

22. Plutarch, Fragments, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

23. Plutarch, Pericles, 6.2 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

6.2. A story is told that once on a time the head of a one-horned ram was brought to Pericles from his country-place, and that Lampon the seer, when he saw how the horn grew strong and solid from the middle of the forehead, declared that, whereas there were two powerful parties in the city, that of Thucydides and that of Pericles, the mastery would finally devolve upon one man,—the man to whom this sign had been given. Anaxagoras, however, had the skull cut in two, and showed that the brain had not filled out its position, but had drawn together to a point, like an egg, at that particular spot in the entire cavity where the root of the horn began.

24. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 41.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

25. Lucian, A True Story, 2.20 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

26. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.26.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

2.26.7. The third account is, in my opinion, the farthest from the truth; it makes Asclepius to be the son of Arsinoe, the daughter of Leucippus. For when Apollophanes the Arcadian, came to Delphi and asked the god if Asclepius was the son of Arsinoe and therefore a Messenian, the Pythian priestess gave this response:— 0 Asclepius, born to bestow great joy upon mortals, Pledge of the mutual love I enjoyed with Phlegyas' daughter, Lovely Coronis, who bare thee in rugged land Epidaurus . Unknown . This oracle makes it quite certain that Asclepius was not a son of Arsinoe, and that the story was a fiction invented by Hesiod, or by one of Hesiod's interpolators, just to please the Messenians.

27. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 9.56 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

28. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 2.40, 9.55 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

2.40. The affidavit in the case, which is still preserved, says Favorinus, in the Metroon, ran as follows: This indictment and affidavit is sworn by Meletus, the son of Meletus of Pitthos, against Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus of Alopece: Socrates is guilty of refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state, and of introducing other new divinities. He is also guilty of corrupting the youth. The penalty demanded is death. The philosopher then, after Lysias had written a defence for him, read it through and said: A fine speech, Lysias; it is not, however, suitable to me. For it was plainly more forensic than philosophical. 9.55. The works of his which survive are these:The Art of Controversy.of Wrestling.On Mathematics.of the State.of Ambition.of Virtues.of the Ancient Order of Things.On the Dwellers in Hades.of the Misdeeds of Mankind.A Book of Precepts.of Forensic Speech for a Fee, two books of opposing arguments.This is the list of his works. Moreover there is a dialogue which Plato wrote upon him.Philochorus says that, when he was on a voyage to Sicily, his ship went down, and that Euripides hints at this in his Ixion. According to some his death occurred, when he was on a journey, at nearly ninety years of age

29. Firmicus Maternus Julius., De Errore Profanarum Religionum, 6.5 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

30. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 327, 325

31. Papyri, Derveni Papyrus, 3.7, 4.4-4.5, 5.6-5.10, 6.7-6.8, 6.10, 20.2

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adonis (god)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
aeschylus	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
agave	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
air	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
aither,zeus identified with	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 152
allegoresis (allegorical interpretation),in the derveni papyrus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86, 134
allegoresis (allegorical interpretation)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
anderson,ralph	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
anger	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
antiphon	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86
aphrodite	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
argolid	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
aristophanes	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
aristotle	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
asclepius	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
athena	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 152
athens	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
atthidography	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 51
authority,competition for authority	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
authority,of the da	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
bacchants,bacchae,bacchai	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
bendis (goddess)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
biography,homeric	Repath and Whitmarsh (2022), Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica, 96
boreas (god)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
boreas and oreithyia	Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 15
cakes (offerings)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
charicleia	Repath and Whitmarsh (2022), Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica, 96
charlatans	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
chiron	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
chorus χορός,choral	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
clients,of the da	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86
comedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
cosmology	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
cult,change/continuity over time	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
cult,cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
death associated with dionysos and dionysian cult or myth	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
demeter	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86
derveni author	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
derveni papyrus,first columns	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
derveni poem	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86, 134
dionysos,awakening	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
dionysos,birth	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
dionysos,epiphany	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
dionysos,immortal	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
dionysos	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
dionysus,birth	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
dionysus,birth of	Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 14, 15
dionysus,birth of dionysus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
dionysus,heart	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
dionysus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
diosphos,painter of	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
dismemberment	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
divination	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
diviners	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
dream	Repath and Whitmarsh (2022), Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica, 96
dreams,interpretation of oracular dreams	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
earth	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
earthquake	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
ecstasy ἔκστασις,ecstatic	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
erinyes	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
eschatology	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
etymology	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
eumenides	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
euripides,bacchae	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
euripides	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
experts,expertise,derveni author as expert	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
expiation	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
fire	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
floating gap	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 51
fowler,robert,,xxiii,xxiv,,xxvi,xxvii,xxviii	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 51
gaia	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
garland,robert	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
gestation	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
gods	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
gods and goddesses,naming and identifying	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
gods and goddesses,new deities	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
gods as elements,names of the gods	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
hades,terrors of hades	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
hearing (in the mysteries)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
hera,angry	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
hera	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
hestia	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
hierarchy of means	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hierocles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
hippocratic authors	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
homer	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
homeric hymn to dionysos	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
immortalisation	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
initiate	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
initiates	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
isis (goddess and cult)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
isokrates,areopagitikos	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
jacoby,felix	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 51
jealousy	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
kadmos,kadmeian	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
kleos	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
lampon	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
libations	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
liberation	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
life	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
lightning	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
lightning strike	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
linguistic ambiguity	Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 14
lloyd,michael	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
maenads,maenadic,maenadism	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
magos	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
mania μανία,maniacal	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
medicine	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
men (god)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
musaeus	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
mystery cults	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
myth	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
nurse	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
nymph	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
nysa	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
odysseus	Repath and Whitmarsh (2022), Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica, 96
oedipus	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
offerings (bloodless)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 134
officiants (in the mysteries)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
olympus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
oracles	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
oreithyia	Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 15
orpheus,literary author	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
orpheus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
orphic,see titans,zagreus	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
orphic doctrines	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
orphic poems	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
orphic rites	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
orphic tradition,derveni papyrus	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
orphic tradition	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
osiris (god)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
pan (god)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
papyri/papyrology,derveni papyrus	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
parker,robert c. t.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
pelliccia,hayden	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 152
pentheus	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
pericles	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
philocorus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
plague	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
plato,myth criticism in	Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 15
plato	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
plutarch	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134; Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
poetry	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
porphyry	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
pre-socratic philosophy	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
pregnancy	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
private initiators	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
prodicus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
professionals,of the sacred	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
prophet	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
protagoras	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
rationalization,and the divine	Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 14, 15
religion/theology,old vs. new	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
religious authority,sacred law/prescriptions	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
revenge	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
riddles	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 134
rites,rituals	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
sabazios (god)	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
sacrifice (thysia),rules and prescriptions	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
sacrifices	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 134
segal,c. p.	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
semele	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343; Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
sky	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
socrates	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
sokrates	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
sophism of teiresias in bacchae	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
sophists	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
soul	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
souls	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
spatium historicum	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 51
spatium mythicum	Edmunds (2021), Greek Myth, 51
speech	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
stoicism	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 86
subterfuge	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
suppliant women bacchae compared	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
taplin,oliver	Pucci (2016), Euripides' Revolution Under Cover: An Essay, 144
teiresias	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
theagenes	Repath and Whitmarsh (2022), Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica, 96
thebes	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
theogony	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
theology	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
thigh	Repath and Whitmarsh (2022), Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica, 96
thunder,thunderbolt	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
tiresias (in euripides bacchae)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 86, 134
torch,torchlight	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
tragedy,rationalization in	Hawes (2014), Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, 14, 15
tragedy,tragic'	Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343
tragedy	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 231
truth	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85, 134
tynnichos of chalkis	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 30
wisdom (expertise)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85
womb	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
zeus,fatherhood	Pirenne-Delforge and Pironti (2022), The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse, 268
zeus,zeus lightning	de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
zeus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 85; Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 343; de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 128
zeus mind	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134
ἱερά	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 134