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1. Hesiod, Theogony, 210, 487, 890-893, 904, 209 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
2. Homer, Odyssey, 11.272 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
3. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 5.2-5.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 5.2. 2.  Its circumference is some four thousand three hundred and sixty stades; for of its three sides, that extending from Pelorias to Lilybaeum is one thousand seven hundred stades, that from Lilybaeum to Pachynus in the territory of Syracuse is a thousand five hundred, and the remaining side is one thousand one hundred and forty stades.,3.  The Siceliotae who dwell in the island have received the tradition from their ancestors, the report having ever been handed down successively from earliest time by one generation to the next, that the island is sacred to Demeter and Corê; although there are certain poets who recount the myth that at the marriage of Pluton and Persephonê Zeus gave this island as a wedding present to the bride.,4.  That the ancient inhabitants of Sicily, the Sicani, were indigenous, is stated by the best authorities among historians, also that the goddesses we have mentioned first made their appearance on this island, and that it was the first, because of the fertility of the soil, to bring forth the fruit of the corn, facts to which the most renowned of the poets also bears witness when he writes: But all these things grow there for them unsown And e'en untilled, both wheat and barley, yea, And vines, which yield such wine as fine grapes give, And rain of Zeus gives increase unto them. Indeed, in the plain of Leontini, we are told, and throughout many other parts of Sicily the wheat men call "wild" grows even to this day.,5.  And, speaking generally, before the corn was discovered, if one were to raise the question, what manner of land it was of the inhabited earth where the fruits we have mentioned appeared for the first time, the meed of honour may reasonably be accorded to the richest land; and in keeping with what we have stated, it is also to be observed that the goddesses who made this discovery are those who receive the highest honours among the Siceliotae. 5.3. 1.  Again, the fact that the Rape of Corê took place in Sicily is, men say, proof most evident that the goddesses made this island their favourite retreat because it was cherished by them before all others.,2.  And the Rape of Corê, the myth relates, took place in the meadows in the territory of Enna. The spot lies near the city, a place of striking beauty for its violets and every other kind of flower and worthy of the goddess. And the story is told that, because of the sweet odour of the flowers growing there, trained hunting dogs are unable to hold the trail, because their natural sense of smell is balked. And the meadow we have mentioned is level in the centre and well watered throughout, but on its periphery it rises high and falls off with precipitous cliffs on every side. And it is conceived of as lying in the very centre of the island, which is the reason why certain writers call it the navel of Sicily.,3.  Near to it also are sacred groves, surrounded by marshy flats, and a huge grotto which contains a chasm which leads down into the earth and opens to the north, and through it, the myth relates, Pluton, coming out with his chariot, effected the Rape of Corê. And the violets, we are told, and the rest of the flowers which supply the sweet odour continue to bloom, to one's amazement, throughout the entire year, and so the whole aspect of the place is one of flowers and delight.,4.  And both Athena and Artemis, the myth goes on to say, who had made the same choice of maidenhood as had Corê and were reared together with her, joined with her in gathering the flowers, and all of them together wove the robe for their father Zeus. And because of the time they had spent together and their intimacy they all loved this island above any other, and each one of them received for her portion a territory, Athena receiving hers in the region of Himera, where the Nymphs, to please Athena, caused the springs of warm water to gush forth on the occasion of the visit of Heracles to the island, and the natives consecrated a city to her and a plot of ground which to this day is called Athena's.,5.  And Artemis received from the gods the island at Syracuse which was named after her, by both the oracles and men, Ortygia. On this island likewise these Nymphs, to please Artemis, caused a great fountain to gush forth to which was given the name Arethusa.,6.  And not only in ancient times did this fountain contain large fish in great numbers, but also in our own day we find these fish still there, considered to be holy and not to be touched by men; and on many occasions, when certain men have eaten them amid stress of war, the deity has shown a striking sign, and has visited with great sufferings such as dared to take them for food. of these matters we shall give an exact account in connection with the appropriate period of time. 5.4. 1.  Like the two goddesses whom we have mentioned Corê, we are told, received as her portion the meadows round about Enna; but a great fountain was made sacred to her in the territory of Syracuse and given the name Cyanê or "Azure Fount.",2.  For the myth relates that it was near Syracuse that Pluton effected the Rape of Corê and took her away in his chariot, and that after cleaving the earth asunder he himself descended into Hades, taking along with him the bride whom he had seized, and that he caused the fountain named Cyanê to gush forth, near which the Syracusans each year hold a notable festive gathering; and private individuals offer the lesser victims, but when the ceremony is on behalf of the community, bulls are plunged in the pool, this manner of sacrifice having been commanded by Heracles on the occasion when he made the circuit of all Sicily, while driving off the cattle of Geryones.,3.  After the Rape of Corê, the myth does on to recount, Demeter, being unable to find her daughter, kindled torches in the craters of Mt. Aetna and visited many parts of the inhabited world, and upon the men who received her with the greatest favour she conferred briefs, rewarding them with the gift of the fruit of the wheat.,4.  And since a more kindly welcome was extended the goddess by the Athenians than by any other people, they were the first after the Siceliotae to be given the fruit of the wheat; and in return for this gift the citizens of that city in assembly honoured the goddess above all others with the establishment both of most notable sacrifices and of the mysteries of Eleusis, which, by reason of their very great antiquity and sanctity, have come to be famous among all mankind. From the Athenians many peoples received a portion of the gracious gift of the corn, and they in turn, sharing the gift of the seed with their neighbours, in this way caused all the inhabited world to abound with it.,5.  And the inhabitants of Sicily, since by reason of the intimate relationship of Demeter and Corê with them they were the first to share in the corn after its discovery, instituted to each one of the goddesses sacrifices and festive gatherings, which they named after them, and by the time chosen for these made acknowledgement of the gifts which had been conferred upon them.,6.  In the case of Corê, for instance, they established the celebration of her return at about the time when the fruit of the corn was found to come to maturity, and they celebrate this sacrifice and festive gathering with such strictness of observance and such zeal as we should reasonably expect those men to show who are returning thanks for having been selected before all mankind for the greatest possible gift;,7.  but in the case of Demeter they preferred that time for the sacrifice when the sowing of the corn is first begun, and for a period of ten days they hold a festive gathering which bears the name of this goddess and is most magnificent by reason of the brilliance of their preparation for it, while in the observance of it they imitate the ancient manner of life. And it is their custom during these days to indulge in coarse language as they associate one with another, the reason being that by such coarseness the goddess, grieved though she was at the Rape of Corê, burst into laughter.
4. Ovid, Fasti, 4.407-4.408, 4.413-4.416, 4.423-4.424, 4.437-4.440, 4.517-4.518, 4.584 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) 4.413. You girded attendants lift those knives from the ox: 4.414. Let the ox plough, while you sacrifice the lazy sow 4.415. It’s not fitting for an axe to strike a neck that’s yoked: 4.416. Let the ox live, and toil through the stubborn soil. 4.423. Cool Arethusa gathered together the mothers of the gods: 4.424. And the yellow-haired goddess came to the sacred feast. 4.437. One picked marigolds: another loved violets 4.438. And one nipped the poppy-heads with her nails: 4.439. Some you tempt, hyacinth: others, amaranth, you delay: 4.440. Others desire thyme, cornflowers or clover. 4.517. She refused. She was disguised as an old woman, her hair 4.518. Covered with a cap. When he urged her she replied: 4.584. Is married to Jupiter’s brother, and rules the third realm.’
5. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.341-5.355, 5.359-5.392, 5.409-5.437, 5.451-5.461, 5.465-5.486, 5.492, 5.523-5.532, 5.551-5.565, 5.572-5.642, 5.657 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
6. New Testament, 2 Corinthians, 4.17 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Orphic Hymns., Argonautica, 18-31, 17
8. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 12, 139, 14, 140-141, 149, 17-18, 21-22, 240, 26, 31, 8, 10
9. Papyri, Derveni Papyrus, 13.4, 15.6, 16.3, 22.12

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
air	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
aither,ejaculation of aither by uranus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
aphrodite	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
ceres	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
claudian	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
cold (in cosmogony)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
cosmogony	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
cronus,etymologized as κρούων νοῦς	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
cronus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53, 111
demeter	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
derveni author	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
derveni poem	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
derveni poet	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
earth	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
eleusis	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
emotions,anger/rage	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
emotions,grief	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
emotions,guilt	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
emotions,maternal	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
erinyes	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
etymology	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
eudemian theogony	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53, 111
fate (εἱμαρμένη),hermetics on	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
free/freedom (ἐλεύθερος/ἐλευθερία,liber/libertas),hermetics on	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
gaia	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
gods,births of the gods	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
gods,hermetics on	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
gods	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
gregory of nyssa,and christianity	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
gregory of nyssa,free from vice,on being (κακίας ἀπηλλαγμένος)	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
gregory of nyssa,hermetics/hermetism/hermetic corpus	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
gregory of nyssa,on fate (εἱμαρμένη)	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
gregory of nyssa,on gods	Brouwer and Vimercati (2020), Fate, Providence and Free Will: Philosophy and Religion in Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age, 207
heat	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
helios	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
hesiod	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53, 111
kingship,divine	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
light (in cosmogony)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
metis	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
mixing (of elements)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
moon	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
motherhood	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
night (goddess)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
nous that ὁρίζεται (etymology of uranus)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
oceanus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
odysseus	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
oedipus	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
orphic myths	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
orphic poems	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
particles (in cosmogony)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
persephone	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
proserpine	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
protogonos (orphic god)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
punishments	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
pythagoreanism	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
rhapsodies (orphic poem)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
stars (in cosmogony and theogony)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
sun	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
swallowing,zeus swallowing of metis	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
swallowing,zeus swallowing of protogonos	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
telemachus	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
tethys	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
uranus,euphronides (son of euphrone = night)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53, 111
uranus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53, 111
uranus castration,as first-born (πρωτόγονος)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
uranus castration,etymologized as νοῦς that ὁρίζεται	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
uranus castration	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
uranus phallus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
wisdom (expertise),in theogony	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
zeus'	de Bakker, van den Berg, and Klooster (2022), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond, 667
zeus	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53, 111
zeus new creation of the world	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
αἰδοῖον,as venerable (epithet of protogonos)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 53
αἰωρεῖσθαι	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
κρούων νous (etymology of cronus)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
νοῦς-ἀήρ	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
νοῦς (allegory of zeus)	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
ἀήρ	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111
ὁρίζω	Alvarez (2018), The Derveni Papyrus: Unearthing Ancient Mysteries, 111