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Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 8

nan No wonder you have forced your way into the Senate House: no bars or bolts can hold against you. Only do say what species of god you want the fellow to be made. An Epikoureios/Epicurean god he cannot be: for they have no troubles and cause none. A Stoic, then? How can he be globular, as Varro says, without a head or a prepuce? There is in him something of the Stoic god, as I can see now: he has neither heart nor head. Upon my word, if he had asked this boon from Saturn, he would not have got it, though he kept up Saturn's feast all the year round, a truly Saturnalian prince. A likely thing he will get it from Jove, whom he condemned for incest as far as in him lay: for he killed his son-in-law Silanus, because Silanus had a sister, a most charming girl, called Venus by all the world, and he preferred to call her Juno. Why, says he, I want to know why, his own sister? Read your books, stupid: you may go half-way at Athens, the whole way at Alexandria. Because the mice lick meal at Rome, you say. Is this creature to mend our crooked ways? What goes on in his own bedchamber he knows not; and now he searches the regions of the sky, wants to be a god. Is it not enough that he has a temple in Britain, that savages worship him and pray to him as a god, so that they may find a fool to have mercy upon them [μωροῦ εὐιλάτου τυχεῖν]?

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1. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 113d. Such is the nature of these things. Now when the dead have come to the place where each is led by his genius, first they are judged and sentenced, as they have lived well and piously, or not. And those who are found to have lived neither well nor ill, go to the Acheron and, embarking upon vessels provided for them, arrive in them at the lake; there they dwell and are purified, and if they have done any wrong they are absolved by paying the penalty for their wrong doings
2. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 247b. they proceed steeply upward to the top of the vault of heaven, where the chariots of the gods, whose well matched horses obey the rein, advance easily, but the others with difficulty; for the horse of evil nature weighs the chariot down, making it heavy and pulling toward the earth the charioteer whose horse is not well trained. There the utmost toil and struggle await the soul. For those that are called immortal, when they reach the top
3. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
4. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 1.51, 1.57-1.84 (1st cent. CE
5. Seneca The Younger, Apocolocyntosis, 7.5, 9.2-9.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
6. Seneca The Younger, De Beneficiis, 1.13.2-1.13.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
7. Lucian, Hermotimus, Or Sects, 7, 5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
8. Lucian, The Sky-Man, 34 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Lucian, The Dead Come To Life Or The Fisherman, 46 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
acta senatus	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
anubis; subject of mime	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
apatheia, freedom from, eradication of, emotion (; is apatheia intelligible?	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
apatheia, freedom from, eradication of, emotion (; reasons for and against apatheia	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
apatheia, freedom from, eradication of, emotion (; should humans aspire to be divine?	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
archive	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
ascension	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
attis; loved by cybele	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
audience	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
augustus	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173; Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
barbarian	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
britain	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
caligula	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
chrysippus, stoic (already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for stoics tended to be ascribed to chrysippus), god spherical	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
chrysippus, stoic (already in antiquity, views seen as orthodox for stoics tended to be ascribed to chrysippus), souls spherical	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
citizenship, roman	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
claudius	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57; Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
clementia	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
commodus	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
consul	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
crime	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
debate, space for	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57
diespiter	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
divine being, heracles	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
economics, wealth	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
equality	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
glory	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
gods; shamefully represented	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
greek	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
hercules	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
homer	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
honor	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
humour	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57
iamblichus, neoplatonist, spherical soul vehicles	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
janus	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
jupiter	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28, 57
jurisdiction	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
justice	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
king, emperor, alexander the great	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
king, emperor, claudius	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
king, emperor, marcus aurelius	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
king, emperor, trajan	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
langslow, david	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
legitimacy, legitimation	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
memory	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
menippean satire	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 28
mimes	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
music; at pantomime	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
narrative	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
nature, natural phenomena, cloud	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
nature, natural phenomena, earth, land	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
nature, natural phenomena, heaven, sky	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
nero	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
occupations	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
origen, church father, does not think resurrection bodies spherical	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
pantomime	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
passion	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
phaethon; lamented by sol	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
philosophy, stoic	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
philosophy	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
plotinus, neoplatonist, apatheia achieved by some souls after death	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
plotinus, neoplatonist, vehicles of soul spherical	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
power	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
religion passim, apotheosis	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
religion passim, prayer	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
religion passim, temple, shrine	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
republic, republican	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
resurrection bodies spherical	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
rhetoric, dialogue	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
rhetoric, metaphor	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
rhetoric, satire	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
rome, empire	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
scorn gods	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
senate	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
senator, senatorial	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
seneca, the younger, stoic, lampoons emperor claudius	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
seneca the elder	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
seneca the younger	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
spectacula; gods insulted at	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
stocker, michael	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
strawson, peter	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
sun; as sol	Sider, Christian and Pagan in the Roman Empire: The Witness of Tertullian (2001) 33
trial	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
troy	Pinheiro et al., Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (2018) 173
vehicles of soul spherical	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189
vica pota	Tacoma, Cicero and Roman Education: The Reception of the Speeches and Ancient Scholarship (2020) 57
virtue'	Tuori, The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication< (2016) 140
virtue	Rothschold, Blanton and Calhoun, The History of Religions School Today: Essays on the New Testament and Related Ancient Mediterranean Texts (2014) 273
zeno of citium, stoic, hence different conception of freedom from emotion(apatheia)	Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 189