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1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 4.2.1 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
2. Aristotle, Soul, 3.5 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
3. Aristotle, Generation of Animals, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
4. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 1.36, 1.39 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.36. Lastly, Balbus, I come to your Stoic school. Zeno's view is that the law of nature is divine, and that its function is to command what is right and to forbid the opposite. How he makes out this law to be alive passes our comprehension; yet we undoubtedly expect god to be a living being. In another passage however Zeno declares that the aether is god — if there is any meaning in a god without sensation, a form of deity that never presents itself to us when we offer up our prayers and supplications and make our vows. And in other books again he holds the view that a 'reason' which pervades all nature is possessed of divine power. He likewise attributes the same powers to the stars, or at another time to the years, the months and the seasons. Again, in his interpretation of Hesiod's Theogony (or Origin of the Gods) he does away with the customary and received ideas of the gods altogether, for he does not reckon either Jupiter, Juno or Vesta as gods, or any being that bears a personal name, but teaches that these names have been assigned allegorically to dumb and lifeless things. 1.39. Chrysippus, who is deemed to be the most skilful interpreter of the Stoic dreams, musters an enormous mob of unknown gods — so utterly unknown that even imagination cannot guess at their form and nature, although our mind appears capable of visualizing anything; for he says that divine power resides in reason, and in the soul and mind of the universe; he calls the world itself a god, and also the all‑pervading world-soul, and again the guiding principle of that soul, which operates in the intellect and reason, and the common and all‑embracing nature of things; beside this, the fire that I previously termed aether; and also the power of Fate, and the Necessity that governs future events; and also all fluid and soluble substances, such as water, earth, air, the sun, moon and stars, and the all‑embracing unity of things; and even those human beings who have attained immortality.
5. Aelius Aristides, Sacred Tales, 4.2.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
6. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.156-7.157 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) 7.156. And there are five terrestrial zones: first, the northern zone which is beyond the arctic circle, uninhabitable because of the cold; second, a temperate zone; a third, uninhabitable because of great heats, called the torrid zone; fourth, a counter-temperate zone; fifth, the southern zone, uninhabitable because of its cold.Nature in their view is an artistically working fire, going on its way to create; which is equivalent to a fiery, creative, or fashioning breath. And the soul is a nature capable of perception. And they regard it as the breath of life, congenital with us; from which they infer first that it is a body and secondly that it survives death. Yet it is perishable, though the soul of the universe, of which the individual souls of animals are parts, is indestructible. 7.157. Zeno of Citium and Antipater, in their treatises De anima, and Posidonius define the soul as a warm breath; for by this we become animate and this enables us to move. Cleanthes indeed holds that all souls continue to exist until the general conflagration; but Chrysippus says that only the souls of the wise do so.They count eight parts of the soul: the five senses, the generative power in us, our power of speech, and that of reasoning. They hold that we see when the light between the visual organ and the object stretches in the form of a cone: so Chrysippus in the second book of his Physics and Apollodorus. The apex of the cone in the air is at the eye, the base at the object seen. Thus the thing seen is reported to us by the medium of the air stretching out towards it, as if by a stick.
7. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 15.20.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
8. Augustine, Contra Academicos, 3.38 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
9. Stoic School, Stoicor. Veter. Fragm., 1.146, 2.809

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
academy	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
chrysippus	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45; Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
cicero	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
cohesion (ἕξις)	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
conflagration	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
conflagration (ἐκπύρωσις)	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
dualism	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
godlikeness,stoic	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
immortal(ity)	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
immortality,achieved	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
immortality,deathlessness	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
immortality,divinity	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
imperishability	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
presocratic,,anaxagoras	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
pythagor(as)(eans)	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
pythagoras,pythagoreans	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
reason/rational	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
scholarship,,qumran	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
soul-body relationship,temporary survival after death	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
souls,and immortality	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82
stoicism/stoic;	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
xenocrates'	Frey and Levison (2014), The Holy Spirit, Inspiration, and the Cultures of Antiquity Multidisciplinary Perspectives, 45
zeno of citium	Long (2019), Immortality in Ancient Philosophy, 82