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Plato, Phaedo, 111e


ὥσπερ ἐν Σικελίᾳ οἱ πρὸ τοῦ ῥύακος πηλοῦ ῥέοντες ποταμοὶ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ ῥύαξ: ὧν δὴ καὶ ἑκάστους τοὺς τόπους πληροῦσθαι, ὡς ἂν ἑκάστοις τύχῃ ἑκάστοτε ἡ περιρροὴ γιγνομένη. ταῦτα δὲ πάντα κινεῖν ἄνω καὶ κάτω ὥσπερ αἰώραν τινὰ ἐνοῦσαν ἐν τῇ γῇ: ἔστι δὲ ἄρα αὕτη ἡ αἰώρα διὰ φύσιν τοιάνδε τινά. ΦΑΙΔ. ἕν τι τῶν χασμάτων τῆς γῆς ἄλλως τε n="112"/and some thicker, like the rivers of mud that flow before the lava in Sicily, and the lava itself. These fill the various regions as they happen to flow to one or another at any time. Now a kind of oscillation within the earth moves all these up and down. And the nature of the oscillation is as follows: Phaedo. One of the chasms of the earth is greater than the rest


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

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1. Homer, Iliad, 1.3 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

1.3. /The wrath sing, goddess, of Peleus' son, Achilles, that destructive wrath which brought countless woes upon the Achaeans, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes, and made them themselves spoil for dogs and every bird; thus the plan of Zeus came to fulfillment
2. Homer, Odyssey, 10.509-10.515, 11.21-11.22 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)

3. Plato, Phaedo, 112e-113c, 114c2-6, 112e (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

112e. Now it is possible to go down from each side to the center, but not beyond, for there the slope rises forward in front of the streams from either side of the earth. Phaedo. Now these streams are many and great and of all sorts, but among the many are four streams, the greatest and outermost of which is that called Oceanus, which flows round in a circle, and opposite this, flowing in the opposite direction, is Acheron, which flows through
4. Plato, Phaedrus, 247c3 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
acheron Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 212, 214
bremmer, jan n. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
child of earth and starry heaven Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 100
death and the afterlife, communication with souls of the dead Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
death and the afterlife, conceptions of death Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
death and the afterlife, corpse (soma) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
death and the afterlife, hades (underworld) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
death and the afterlife, soul (psyche)' Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
edmonds iii, radcliffe g. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
harrison, thomas Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
heroism Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 100
homer, iliad Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
homer, odyssey Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
identity, proclamation of Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 100
jaeger, w. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
miller, f. d. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
odysseus (mythological hero) Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
otto, walter f. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
plato Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
purification Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 100, 212
pyriphlegethon Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 212
snell, b. Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 398
tartarus Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 212, 214