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Himerius, Orations, 47.12-47.13


nanI want to tell you a local story about this city and the festival to which you come. It is very sweet and admirable not only to see the Panathenaea, but also to say something about it in the midst of the Greeks, whenever the Athenians in the course of this festival carry the sacred trireme in procession in honor of their goddess. The ship sets out directly from the gates [the Dipylon], as if from a calm harbor. Moving from there as if on a waveless sea, it is carried through the middle of the straight and level course (δρόμος) that descends and divides the porticoes stretching out on either side of it. In those porticoes Athenians and others gather to do their buying and selling.


nanThe crew of the ship consists of priests and priestesses, all of them eupatrids, crowned with golden or floral wreaths. The ship, upraised and lofty, as if having waves underneath her, moves on wheels, which are fitted with many axles that run straight under the vessel. These wheels bring her, without hindrance, to the hill of Pallas [the Acropolis], from where, I think, the goddess watches the festival and the whole festal period.


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

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1. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.20.1, 6.57.1-6.57.3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

1.20.1. Having now given the result of my inquiries into early times, I grant that there will be a difficulty in believing every particular detail. The way that most men deal with traditions, even traditions of their own country, is to receive them all alike as they are delivered, without applying any critical test whatever. 6.57.1. At last the festival arrived; and Hippias with his bodyguard was outside the city in the Ceramicus, arranging how the different parts of the procession were to proceed. Harmodius and Aristogiton had already their daggers and were getting ready to act 6.57.3. and eager if possible to be revenged first upon the man who had wronged them and for whom they had undertaken all this risk, they rushed, as they were, within the gates, and meeting with Hipparchus by the Leocorium recklessly fell upon him at once, infuriated, Aristogiton by love, and Harmodius by insult, and smote him and slew him.
2. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 18.3, 49.3, 60.1 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Plutarch, Demetrius, 12.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 1.92-1.184, 1.404 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5. Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, 1.10.1 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.2.4 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

1.2.4. On entering the city there is a building for the preparation of the processions, which are held in some cases every year, in others at longer intervals. Hard by is a temple of Demeter, with images of the goddess herself and of her daughter, and of Iacchus holding a torch. On the wall, in Attic characters, is written that they are works of Praxiteles. Not far from the temple is Poseidon on horseback, hurling a spear against the giant Polybotes, concerning whom is prevalent among the Coans the story about the promontory of Chelone. But the inscription of our time assigns the statue to another, and not to Poseidon. From the gate to the Cerameicus there are porticoes, and in front of them brazen statues of such as had some title to fame, both men and women.
7. Philostratus The Athenian, Lives of The Sophists, 2.550 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

8. Origen, Against Celsus, 6.42 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)

6.42. After these matters, Celsus brings the following charges against us from another quarter: Certain most impious errors, he says, are committed by them, due to their extreme ignorance, in which they have wandered away from the meaning of the divine enigmas, creating an adversary to God, the devil, and naming him in the Hebrew tongue, Satan. Now, of a truth, such statements are altogether of mortal invention, and not even proper to be repeated, viz., that the mighty God, in His desire to confer good upon men, has yet one counterworking Him, and is helpless. The Son of God, it follows, is vanquished by the devil; and being punished by him, teaches us also to despise the punishments which he inflicts, telling us beforehand that Satan, after appearing to men as He Himself had done, will exhibit great and marvellous works, claiming for himself the glory of God, but that those who wish to keep him at a distance ought to pay no attention to these works of Satan, but to place their faith in Him alone. Such statements are manifestly the words of a deluder, planning and manœuvring against those who are opposed to his views, and who rank themselves against them. In the next place, desiring to point out the enigmas, our mistakes regarding which lead to the introduction of our views concerning Satan, he continues: The ancients allude obscurely to a certain war among the gods, Heraclitus speaking thus of it: 'If one must say that there is a general war and discord, and that all things are done and administered in strife.' Pherecydes, again, who is much older than Heraclitus, relates a myth of one army drawn up in hostile array against another, and names Kronos as the leader of the one, and Ophioneus of the other, and recounts their challenges and struggles, and mentions that agreements were entered into between them, to the end that whichever party should fall into the ocean should be held as vanquished, while those who had expelled and conquered them should have possession of heaven. The mysteries relating to the Titans and Giants also had some such (symbolic) meaning, as well as the Egyptian mysteries of Typhon, and Horus, and Osiris. After having made such statements, and not having got over the difficulty as to the way in which these accounts contain a higher view of things, while our accounts are erroneous copies of them, he continues his abuse of us, remarking that these are not like the stories which are related of a devil, or demon, or, as he remarks with more truth, of a man who is an impostor, who wishes to establish an opposite doctrine. And in the same way he understands Homer, as if he referred obscurely to matters similar to those mentioned by Heraclitus, and Pherecydes, and the originators of the mysteries about the Titans and Giants, in those words which Heph stus addresses to Hera as follows:- Once in your cause I felt his matchless might, Hurled headlong downward from the ethereal height. And in those of Zeus to Hera:- Have you forgot, when, bound and fix'd on high, From the vast concave of the spangled sky, I hung you trembling in a golden chain, And all the raging gods opposed in vain? Headlong I hurled them from the Olympian hall, Stunn'd in the whirl, and breathless with the fall. Interpreting, moreover, the words of Homer, he adds: The words of Zeus addressed to Hera are the words of God addressed to matter; and the words addressed to matter obscurely signify that the matter which at the beginning was in a state of discord (with God), was taken by Him, and bound together and arranged under laws, which may be analogically compared to chains; and that by way of chastising the demons who create disorder in it, he hurls them down headlong to this lower world. These words of Homer, he alleges, were so understood by Pherecydes, when he said that beneath that region is the region of Tartarus, which is guarded by the Harpies and Tempest, daughters of Boreas, and to which Zeus banishes any one of the gods who becomes disorderly. With the same ideas also are closely connected the peplos of Athena, which is beheld by all in the procession of the Panathen a. For it is manifest from this, he continues, that a motherless and unsullied demon has the mastery over the daring of the Giants. While accepting, moreover, the fictions of the Greeks, he continues to heap against us such accusations as the following, viz., that the Son of God is punished by the devil, and teaches us that we also, when punished by him, ought to endure it. Now these statements are altogether ridiculous. For it is the devil, I think, who ought rather to be punished, and those human beings who are calumniated by him ought not to be threatened with chastisement.
9. Himerius, Orations, 41.1-41.2, 47.13-47.16, 69.7-69.9 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

10. Marinus, Vita Proclus, 15, 19, 29, 10 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

11. Theodosius Ii Emperor of Rome, Theodosian Code, 16.10.3, 16.10.8 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

12. Zosimus, New History, 4.18 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

13. Anon., Appendix Vergiliana. Ciris, 22-35, 21

14. Epigraphy, Cil, 6.1778-6.1780

15. Epigraphy, Ig I , 258, 34, 46, 71, 244

16. Epigraphy, Ig I , 258, 34, 46, 71, 244

17. Epigraphy, Ig Ii, 13287

18. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 1393, 1400, 1425, 1438, 1628, 968, 1388

19. Epigraphy, Ig Ii3, 911, 877

20. Epigraphy, Rhodes & Osborne Ghi, 29



Subjects of this text:

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achaea, proconsuls Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
achilles Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
acropolis Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
acropolis (athens) Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
acropolis of athens Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
agonothetes of panathenaia Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 134
agora, panathenaic way Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118
agora, stoa of zeus eleutherios Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118
agora Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
akropolis, and procession Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118, 157
akropolis, frieze Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118
allies of athens, panoplies Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 160
altars Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
anargyroi) Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
apollo Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
asclepius Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
asklepieion, pagan sanctuary Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
athena, parthenos Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
athena Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148, 357
colonies, athenian, panoplies Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 160
community of all the athenians, membership Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 157, 228
conversion, conversion of temples into churches Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
cosmos/\u2009cosmic Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
cult Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
demiurgy / demiurgic Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
destruction, of statues Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
destruction, of temples / sanctuaries Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
destruction Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
earthquake Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
encomium Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
exegesis Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
father, divine father Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
festivals, dionysian Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
games, festivals, pythia Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 134
games, panathenaic, end of Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
gods, athena Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121, 122
gods, influence in athens Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 122
hadrian, emperor, and great panathenaia Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 134
herakleitos, son of asklepiades, of athmonon, identities Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
herodotos of thebes, herulians, attack of Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
herulian invasion Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
hierophant Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
himerius Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121, 122; Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
hymn Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
icaria Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
incubation Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
inscriptions, dedications Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
julian, the apostate Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 122
kerameikos, and great panathenaia Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118
kyzikos Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
lamps Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
lysimachos Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 132
mary Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
men, athenian, as servants of goddess Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
men, athenian, complex identities Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
men, athenian, identities Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
men, athenian, identities and citizenship Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
men, athenian, procession Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
miltiades, son of zoilos, of marathon, and peplos Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 132
myths and legends Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 122
nestorius Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
olympia, games Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 134
oracle, delphi Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
palagia, olga Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 144
panathenaea, demise Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
panathenaea, peplos Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
panathenaea, ship Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
panathenaea Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
panathenaia, becomes eiselastic Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 134, 228
panathenaia, gifts for athena Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 157
panathenaia, unity Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118
panathenaia, victory celebration Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 160
panathenaia sebasta, great, conservatism Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 160
panathenaic ship, and peplos Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 157, 160
panathenaic ship, and procession Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 133, 134, 144, 228
panoplies, and giants Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 160
panoplies, for athena Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 160
parthenon (athens), conversion Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
parthenon (athens) Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
peplos, and gigantomachy Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 160
peplos, great panathenaia Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 132, 133, 134, 157, 160
peplos, introduction Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 157
perikles, son of xanthippos, of cholargos, identities Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
persecution Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
powers (divine) Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 122
priest/priestess Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
priests/priestesses, of isis Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
priests/priestesses, of serapis Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
priests/priestesses, of various gods Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
procession, at great panathenaia Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118, 132, 133, 134, 144, 228
procession, route Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118
procession, visual evidence Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 134, 144
proclus Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
proclus (neoplatonist) Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
prohaeresius Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 122
prophet / prophecy Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
providence (pronoia) Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
ptolemy Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 132
pyrrhichistai, offerings Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 157
rome Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
sacrifice, prohibition of sacrifice Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
sacrifice, public sacrifice Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
sacrifices, from subgroups' Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 228
socrates Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
sokrates, son of sophroniskos, of alopeke Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 118
statue, athena parthenos Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
statue Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
stenger, jan Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 122
ti. claudius atticus herodes of marathon, agonothetes Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 134
ti. claudius atticus herodes of marathon, and panathenaic ship Shear, Serving Athena: The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities (2021) 133, 134, 144
tübingen theosophy Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
universe Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
violence Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148
visigoths Breytenbach and Tzavella, Early Christianity in Athens, Attica, and Adjacent Areas (2022) 121
war, cosmic war Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
weaving Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 357
zosimus Tanaseanu-Döbler and von Alvensleben, Athens II: Athens in Late Antiquity (2020) 148