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Pausanias, Description Of Greece, 6.6.8

Ὀδυσσέα μὲν δὴ ἐν οὐδενὶ λόγῳ θέμενον αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀπώλειαν ἀποπλέοντα οἴχεσθαι, τοῦ καταλευσθέντος δὲ ἀνθρώπου τὸν δαίμονα οὐδένα ἀνιέναι καιρὸν ἀποκτείνοντά τε ὁμοίως τοὺς ἐν τῇ Τεμέσῃ καὶ ἐπεξερχόμενον ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ἡλικίαν, ἐς ὃ ἡ Πυθία τὸ παράπαν ἐξ Ἰταλίας ὡρμημένους φεύγειν Τεμέσαν μὲν ἐκλιπεῖν οὐκ εἴα, τὸν δὲ Ἥρω σφᾶς ἐκέλευσεν ἱλάσκεσθαι τέμενός τε ἀποτεμομένους οἰκοδομήσασθαι ναόν, διδόναι δὲ κατὰ ἔτος αὐτῷ γυναῖκα τῶν ἐν Τεμέσῃ παρθένων τὴν καλλίστην. Now Odysseus, it is said, cared nothing about his loss and sailed away. But the ghost of the stoned man never ceased killing without distinction the people of Temesa, attacking both old and young, until, when the inhabitants had resolved to flee from Italy for good, the Pythian priestess forbad them to leave Temesa, and ordered them to propitiate the Hero, setting him a sanctuary apart and building a temple, and to give him every year as wife the fairest maiden in Temesa.

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1. Aeschylus, Persians, 660-662, 630 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 630. πέμψατʼ ἔνερθεν ψυχὴν ἐς φῶς· 630. end up to the light the spirit from below; for if, beyond our prayers, he knows any further remedy for our distress, he alone of mortals can declare how to bring it to accomplishment. Chorus
2. Herodotus, Histories, 6.69.1, 6.69.3 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 6.69.1. Thus he spoke. His mother answered, “My son, since you adjure me by entreaties to speak the truth, I will speak out to you all that is true. On the third night after Ariston brought me to his house, a phantom resembling him came to me. It came and lay with me and then put on me the garlands which it had. 6.69.3. When he saw me swearing, he perceived that this was some divine affair. For the garlands had clearly come from the hero's precinct which is established at the courtyard doors, which they call the precinct of Astrabacus, and the seers responded that this was the same hero who had come to me. Thus, my son, you have all you want to know.
3. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.779-2.782 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)
4. Plutarch, Julius Caesar, 69.7, 69.9-69.11 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
5. Plutarch, Letter of Condolence To Apollonius, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.21-2.30 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
7. Lucian, The Lover of Lies, 30-31, 16 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 6.6.7, 6.6.9-6.6.11, 10.28.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 6.6.7. On his return to Italy Euthymus fought against the Hero, the story about whom is as follows. Odysseus, so they say, in his wanderings after the capture of Troy was carried down by gales to various cities of Italy and Sicily, and among them he came with his ships to Temesa. Here one of his sailors got drunk and violated a maiden, for which offence he was stoned to death by the natives. 6.6.9. So they performed the commands of the god and suffered no more terrors from the ghost. But Euthymus happened to come to Temesa just at the time when the ghost was being propitiated in the usual way; learning what was going on he had a strong desire to enter the temple, and not only to enter it but also to look at the maiden. When he saw her he first felt pity and afterwards love for her. The girl swore to marry him if he saved her, and so Euthymus with his armour on awaited the onslaught of the ghost. 6.6.10. He won the fight, and the Hero was driven out of the land and disappeared, sinking into the depth of the sea. Euthymus had a distinguished wedding, and the inhabitants were freed from the ghost for ever. I heard another story also about Euthymus, how that he reached extreme old age, and escaping again from death departed from among men in another way. Temesa is still inhabited, as I heard from a man who sailed there as a merchant. 6.6.11. This I heard, and I also saw by chance a picture dealing with the subject. It was a copy of an ancient picture. There were a stripling, Sybaris, a river, Calabrus, and a spring, Lyca. Besides, there were a hero-shrine and the city of Temesa, and in the midst was the ghost that Euthymus cast out. Horribly black in color, and exceedingly dreadful in all his appearance, he had a wolf's skin thrown round him as a garment. The letters on the picture gave his name as Lycas. 10.28.7. Higher up than the figures I have enumerated comes Eurynomus, said by the Delphian guides to be one of the demons in Hades, who eats off all the flesh of the corpses, leaving only their bones. But Homer's Odyssey, the poem called the Minyad, and the Returns, although they tell of Hades, and its horrors, know of no demon called Eurynomus. However, I will describe what he is like and his attitude in the painting. He is of a color between blue and black, like that of meat flies; he is showing his teeth and is seated, and under him is spread a vulture's skin.
9. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 4.20 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) 4.20. Now while he was discussing the question of libations, there chanced to be present in his audience a young dandy who bore so evil a reputation for licentiousness that his conduct had long been the subject of coarse street-corner songs. His home was Corcyra, and he traced his pedigree to Alcinous the Phaeacian who entertained Odysseus. Apollonius then was talking about libations, and was urging them not to drink out of a particular cup, but to reserve it for the gods, without ever touching it or drinking out of it. But when he also urged them to have handles on the cup, and to pour the libation over the handle, because that is the part at which men are least likely to drink, the youth burst out into loud and coarse laughter, and quite drowned his voice. Then Apollonius looked up and said: It is not yourself that perpetrates this insult, but the demon, who drives you without your knowing it. And in fact the youth was, without knowing it, possessed by a devil; for he would laugh at things that no one else laughed at, and then would fall to weeping for no reason at all, and he would talk and sing to himself. Now most people thought that it was boisterous humor of youth which led him into excesses; but he was really the mouthpiece of a devil, though it only seemed a drunken frolic in which on that occasion he was indulging. Now, when Apollonius gazed on him, the ghost in him began to utter cries of fear and rage, such as one hears from people who are being branded or racked; and the ghost swore that he would leave the you man alone and never take possession of any man again. But Apollonius addressed him with anger, as a master might a shifty, rascally, and shameless slave and so on, and he ordered him to quit the young man and show by a visible sign that he had done so. I will throw down yonder statue, said the devil, and pointed to one of the images which were there in the Royal Stoa, for there it was that the scene took place. But when the statue began by moving gently, and then fell down, it would defy anyone to describe the hubbub which arose thereat and the way they clapped their hand with wonder. But the young man rubbed his eyes as if he had just woke up, and he looked towards the rays of the sun, and assumed a modest aspect, as all had their attention concentrated on him; for he no longer showed himself licentious, nor did he stare madly about, but he had returned to his own self, as thoroughly as if he had been treated with drugs; and he gave up his dainty dress and summery garments and the rest of his sybaritic way of life, and he fell in love with the austerity of philosophers, and donned their cloak, and stripping off his old self modeled his life and future upon that of Apollonius.
10. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 7.348-7.358 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
abrasax	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
abyss	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
afra	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
apollonius	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
aristophanes,heroes	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
artemidoros	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
augsburg	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
brelich,angelo	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
claudius,roman emperor,expulsion of jews from rome by	Feldman (2006), Judaism and Hellenism Reconsidered, 431
corpse	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
corpses,use of,in magic	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 266
costabile,felice	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
crow	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
currie,bruno	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
daemonology	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265, 266, 267
daimon	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
daimons	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
darius	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
death and the afterlife,communication with souls of the dead	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
death and the afterlife,conceptions of death	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
death and the afterlife,ghosts/restless spirits/revenants	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
delphi,pythian apollo	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
delphi,sanctuary and oracle at	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265
delphi	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
demons/demonology	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
demons	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
dracula	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265
eden	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
egypt	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 266
egyptian/egyptians	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
eidolon/εἴδωλον	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
exorcism	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
felton,d.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
fontenrose,joseph	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
garcía teijeiro,m.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
ghost,embodied	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
ghosts	Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 67
hades	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
healing,purification ritual and law	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
henrichs,albert	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
heracles	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265
hermes	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
herodotus	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
heroes/heroines,revenants	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
heroes	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265
jameson,michael h.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
jesus / christ	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
johnston,sarah iles	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
jordan,d. r.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
kortansky,r. d.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
legion	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
marriage,sacred	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265
molinos tejada,m. t.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
narcissus of gerundum,st	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
necromancy	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265, 266
odysseus	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
ophiorhyme	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
oracles,pythia	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
oracles,pythian apollo'	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
ovid	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
parker,robert c. t.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
pausanias	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324; Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
philosopher	Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 67
platonic	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
plutarch	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
plutarchs lives,life of brutus	Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 67
plutarchs lives,life of caesar	Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 67
pluto	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
protesilaus	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
psukhē/ai	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
pythia	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
redfield,j.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
revenant	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
robertson,n.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
sacrifices,human	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 265
sappho	Edmonds (2019), Drawing Down the Moon: Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World, 324
snake	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
soul	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
spectre	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
spirit	Leão and Lanzillotta (2019), A Man of Many Interests: Plutarch on Religion, Myth, and Magic, 67
stramaglia,antonio	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
venom/venomous	Schaaf (2019), Animal Kingdom of Heaven: Anthropozoological Aspects in the Late Antique World. 45
visintin,m.	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
voutiras,emmanuel	Eidinow and Kindt (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, 402
werewolf	Gazis and Hooper (2021), Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature, 43
witches and witchcraft	Luck (2006), Arcana mundi: magic and the occult in the Greek and Roman worlds: a collection of ancient texts, 266