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Parmenides, Fragments, 1
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1. Parmenides, Fragments, 1.14, 8.30, 10.6 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)

2. Aristophanes, Women of The Assembly, 953-975, 952 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

952. δεῦρο δὴ δεῦρο δή
3. Plautus, Curculio, 147-154, 145 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)

4. Horace, Odes, 3.10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

5. Ovid, Amores, 1.6 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Propertius, Elegies, 1.16 (1st cent. BCE

7. Plutarch, On Isis And Osiris, 9 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

9. The kings were appointed from the priests or from the military class, since the military class had eminence and honour because of valour, and the priests because of wisdom. But he who was appointed from the military class was at once made one of the priests and a participant in their philosophy, which, for the most part, is veiled in myths and in words containing dim reflexions and adumbrations of the truth, as they themselves intimate beyond question by appropriately placing sphinxes Cf. Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, v. 5. 31, chap. 5 (p. 664 Potter). before their shrines to indicate that their religious teaching has in it an enigmatical sort of wisdom. In Saïs the statue of Athena, whom they believe to be Isis, bore the inscription: I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered. Moreover, most people believe that Amoun is the name given to Zeus in the land of the Egyptians, Cf. Herodotus, ii. 42. a name which we, with a slight alteration, pronounce Ammon. But Manetho of Sebennytus thinks that the meaning concealed or concealment lies in this word. Hecataeus Cf. Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, Hecataeus (60), No. B, 8. of Abdera, however, says that the Egyptians use this expression one to another whenever they call to anyone, for the word is a form of address. When they, therefore, address the supreme god, whom they believe to be the same as the Universe, as if he were invisible and concealed, and implore him to make himself visible and manifest to them, they use the word Amoun ; so great, then, was the circumspection of the Egyptians in their wisdom touching all that had to do wTith the gods. 9. The kings were appointed from the priests or from the military class, since the military class had eminence and honour because of valour, and the priests because of wisdom. But he who was appointed from the military class was at once made one of the priests and a participant in their philosophy, which, for the most part, is veiled in myths and in words containing dim reflexions and adumbrations of the truth, as they themselves intimate beyond question by appropriately placing sphinxes before their shrines to indicate that their religious teaching has in it an enigmatical sort of wisdom. In Saïs the statue of Athena, whom they believe to be Isis, bore the inscription: "I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered." Moreover, most people believe that Amoun is the name given to Zeus in the land of the Egyptians, a name which we, with a slight alteration, pronounce Ammon. But Manetho of Sebennytus thinks that the meaning "concealed" or "concealment" lies in this word. Hecataeus of Abdera, however, says that the Egyptians use this expression one to another whenever they call to anyone, for the word is a form of address. When they, therefore, address the supreme god, whom they believe to be the same as the Universe, as if he were invisible and concealed, and implore him to make himself visible and manifest to them, they use the word "Amoun"; so great, then, was the circumspection of the Egyptians in their wisdom touching all that had to do with the gods.


Subjects of this text:

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action/activity, nocturnal Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
ananke, necessity (deity/daimon). Gieseler Greenbaum, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2015) 343
aphrodite/venus Gieseler Greenbaum, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2015) 343
aristotle Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
burkert, walter Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
chaos Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
cosmogony Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
creativity Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
curiosity Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
derveni papyrus Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
dike Gieseler Greenbaum, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2015) 343
dikê Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
door Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
erebus Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
eros Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
eros (deity/daimon), in parmenides' Gieseler Greenbaum, The Daimon in Hellenistic Astrology: Origins and Influence (2015) 343
experience Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
hesiod, theogony Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
hippias Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
knowledge Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
love elegy Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
night/nighttime, house of Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
orphism Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 65
parmenides Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10, 65
perception Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
philosophy Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
plutarch Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
politics Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
schiller, friedrich Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
truth Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10
work Ker and Wessels, The Values of Nighttime in Classical Antiquity: Between Dusk and Dawn (2020) 10