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1. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 2.581-2.645 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

2.581. Illud in his obsignatum quoque rebus habere 2.582. convenit et memori mandatum mente tenere 2.583. nil esse, in promptu quorum natura videtur 2.584. quod genere ex uno consistat principiorum 2.585. nec quicquam quod non permixto semine constet. 2.586. et quod cumque magis vis multas possidet in se 2.587. atque potestates, ita plurima principiorum 2.588. in sese genera ac varias docet esse figuras. 2.589. Principio tellus habet in se corpora prima 2.590. unde mare inmensum volventes frigora fontes 2.591. adsidue renovent, habet ignes unde oriantur; 2.592. nam multis succensa locis ardent sola terrae 2.593. ex imis vero furit ignibus impetus Aetnae. 2.594. tum porro nitidas fruges arbustaque laeta 2.595. gentibus humanis habet unde extollere possit 2.596. unde etiam fluvios frondes et pabula laeta 2.597. montivago generi possit praebere ferarum. 2.598. quare magna deum mater materque ferarum 2.599. et nostri genetrix haec dicta est corporis una. 2.600. Hanc veteres Graium docti cecinere poetae 2.601. sedibus in curru biiugos agitare leones 2.602. aeris in spatio magnam pendere docentes 2.603. tellurem neque posse in terra sistere terram. 2.604. adiunxere feras, quia quamvis effera proles 2.605. officiis debet molliri victa parentum. 2.606. muralique caput summum cinxere corona 2.607. eximiis munita locis quia sustinet urbes. 2.608. quo nunc insigni per magnas praedita terras 2.609. horrifice fertur divinae matris imago. 2.610. hanc variae gentes antiquo more sacrorum 2.611. Idaeam vocitant matrem Phrygiasque catervas 2.612. dant comites, quia primum ex illis finibus edunt 2.613. per terrarum orbes fruges coepisse creari. 2.614. Gallos attribuunt, quia, numen qui violarint 2.615. Matris et ingrati genitoribus inventi sint 2.616. significare volunt indignos esse putandos 2.617. vivam progeniem qui in oras luminis edant. 2.618. tympana tenta tot palmis et cymbala circum 2.619. concava, raucisonoque mitur cornua cantu 2.620. et Phrygio stimulat numero cava tibia mentis 2.621. telaque praeportant, violenti signa furoris 2.622. ingratos animos atque impia pectora volgi 2.623. conterrere metu quae possint numine divae. 2.624. ergo cum primum magnas invecta per urbis 2.625. munificat tacita mortalis muta salute 2.626. aere atque argento sternunt iter omne viarum 2.627. largifica stipe ditantes ninguntque rosarum 2.628. floribus umbrantes matrem comitumque catervam. 2.629. hic armata manus, Curetas nomine Grai 2.630. quos memorant, Phrygias inter si forte catervas 2.631. ludunt in numerumque exultant sanguine laeti 2.632. terrificas capitum quatientes numine cristas 2.633. Dictaeos referunt Curetas, qui Iovis illum 2.634. vagitum in Creta quondam occultasse feruntur 2.635. cum pueri circum puerum pernice chorea 2.636. armat et in numerum pernice chorea 2.637. armati in numerum pulsarent aeribus aera 2.638. ne Saturnus eum malis mandaret adeptus 2.639. aeternumque daret matri sub pectore volnus. 2.640. propterea magnam armati matrem comitantur 2.641. aut quia significant divam praedicere ut armis 2.642. ac virtute velint patriam defendere terram 2.643. praesidioque parent decorique parentibus esse. 2.644. quae bene et eximie quamvis disposta ferantur 2.645. longe sunt tamen a vera ratione repulsa. 2.581. This, too, in these affairs 'Tis fit thou hold well sealed, and keep consigned With no forgetting brain: nothing there is Whose nature is apparent out of hand That of one kind of elements consists- Nothing there is that's not of mixed seed. And whatsoe'er possesses in itself More largely many powers and properties Shows thus that here within itself there are The largest number of kinds and differing shapes of elements. And, chief of all, the earth Hath in herself first bodies whence the springs, Rolling chill waters, renew forevermore The unmeasured main; hath whence the fires arise- For burns in many a spot her flamed crust, Whilst the impetuous Aetna raves indeed From more profounder fires- and she, again, Hath in herself the seed whence she can raise The shining grains and gladsome trees for men; Whence, also, rivers, fronds, and gladsome pastures Can she supply for mountain-roaming beasts. Wherefore great mother of gods, and mother of beasts, And parent of man hath she alone been named. Her hymned the old and learned bards of Greece . . . . . . Seated in chariot o'er the realms of air To drive her team of lions, teaching thus That the great earth hangs poised and cannot lie Resting on other earth. Unto her car They've yoked the wild beasts, since a progeny, However savage, must be tamed and chid By care of parents. They have girt about With turret-crown the summit of her head, Since, fortressed in her goodly strongholds high, 'Tis she sustains the cities; now, adorned With that same token, to-day is carried forth, With solemn awe through many a mighty land, The image of that mother, the divine. Her the wide nations, after antique rite, Do name Idaean Mother, giving her Escort of Phrygian bands, since first, they say, From out those regions 'twas that grain began Through all the world. To her do they assign The Galli, the emasculate, since thus They wish to show that men who violate The majesty of the mother and have proved Ingrate to parents are to be adjudged Unfit to give unto the shores of light A living progeny. The Galli come: And hollow cymbals, tight-skinned tambourines Resound around to bangings of their hands; The fierce horns threaten with a raucous bray; The tubed pipe excites their maddened minds In Phrygian measures; they bear before them knives, Wild emblems of their frenzy, which have power The rabble's ingrate heads and impious hearts To panic with terror of the goddess' might. And so, when through the mighty cities borne, She blesses man with salutations mute, They strew the highway of her journeyings With coin of brass and silver, gifting her With alms and largesse, and shower her and shade With flowers of roses falling like the snow Upon the Mother and her companion-bands. Here is an armed troop, the which by Greeks Are called the Phrygian Curetes. Since Haply among themselves they use to play In games of arms and leap in measure round With bloody mirth and by their nodding shake The terrorizing crests upon their heads, This is the armed troop that represents The arm'd Dictaean Curetes, who, in Crete, As runs the story, whilom did out-drown That infant cry of Zeus, what time their band, Young boys, in a swift dance around the boy, To measured step beat with the brass on brass, That Saturn might not get him for his jaws, And give its mother an eternal wound Along her heart. And 'tis on this account That armed they escort the mighty Mother, Or else because they signify by this That she, the goddess, teaches men to be Eager with armed valour to defend Their motherland, and ready to stand forth, The guard and glory of their parents' years. A tale, however beautifully wrought, That's wide of reason by a long remove: For all the gods must of themselves enjoy Immortal aeons and supreme repose, Withdrawn from our affairs, detached, afar: Immune from peril and immune from pain, Themselves abounding in riches of their own, Needing not us, they are not touched by wrath They are not taken by service or by gift. Truly is earth insensate for all time; But, by obtaining germs of many things, In many a way she brings the many forth Into the light of sun. And here, whoso Decides to call the ocean Neptune, or The grain-crop Ceres, and prefers to abuse The name of Bacchus rather than pronounce The liquor's proper designation, him Let us permit to go on calling earth Mother of Gods, if only he will spare To taint his soul with foul religion.
2. Plutarch, Fragments, 178 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3. Plutarch, Fragments, 178 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 8.24 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

5. Julian (Emperor), , None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

6. Julian (Emperor), , None (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

7. Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Caracalla, 9.11 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)



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apotheosis Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 91
arcana naturae Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
archives Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
ass, hateful to isis, spot where ass had lain Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
athens and athenians, and religious authority Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
athens and athenians, cults and cult places of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
athens and athenians, in peloponnesian war era Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
augustine Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
burial rituals, dionysiac Graf and Johnston, Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007) 158
clement of alexandria Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
cybele, and rebirth, priest of Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
demeter Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
dionysus Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
dover, kenneth j. Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
eleusinian rites, influence of Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
eleusis Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
enigma Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
ff*., ill' Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
image, fertile, of goddess, images of gods Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
isidis navigium, in cenchreae, ill Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
isis, in pompeii Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
isis, name of ship Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
isis pelagia, on lamps Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
isis pharia Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
julian Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
julian (emperor) Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
metroön, at athens Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
milk Graf and Johnston, Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007) 158
mithras, cult of, and rebirth Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
mother of the gods, and athens Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
mother of the gods, myths of Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
mother of the gods, scholarship on Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
mysteries Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
neoplatonists Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
new years commerce, and ship of isis Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
olbia tablets Graf and Johnston, Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007) 158
orpheus, as founder of mysteries and religious reformer Graf and Johnston, Ritual texts for the afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets (2007) 158
parker, robert Munn, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (2006) 58
persephone, kourotrophos Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 91
pledge, to service in sacred rites Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
pompeii, iseum in, naval scene Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
reincarnation Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 91
revelation Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
rite de passage, suckling Edmonds, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets (2004) 91
sallustios Stroumsa, Hidden Widsom: Esoteric Traditions and the Roots of Christian Mysticism (1996) 23
sea-shore, procession stops at Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
service, holy military, pledge to service in sacred rites Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259
ship, of isis, offered by priests as first-fruits of new years navigation, naming, dedication, and launching of Griffiths, The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI) (1975) 259