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Xenophon, Memoirs, 1.3.1

ὡς δὲ δὴ καὶ ὠφελεῖν ἐδόκει μοι τοὺς συνόντας τὰ μὲν ἔργῳ δεικνύων ἑαυτὸν οἷος ἦν, τὰ δὲ καὶ διαλεγόμενος, τούτων δὴ γράψω ὁπόσα ἂν διαμνημονεύσω. τὰ μὲν τοίνυν πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς φανερὸς ἦν καὶ ποιῶν καὶ λέγων ᾗπερ ἡ Πυθία ἀποκρίνεται τοῖς ἐρωτῶσι πῶς δεῖ ποιεῖν ἢ περὶ θυσίας ἢ περὶ προγόνων θεραπείας ἢ περὶ ἄλλου τινὸς τῶν τοιούτων· ἥ τε γὰρ Πυθία νόμῳ πόλεως ἀναιρεῖ ποιοῦντας εὐσεβῶς ἂν ποιεῖν, Σωκράτης τε οὕτω καὶ αὐτὸς ἐποίει καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις παρῄνει, τοὺς δὲ ἄλλως πως ποιοῦντας περιέργους καὶ ματαίους ἐνόμιζεν εἶναι. In order to support my opinion that he benefited his companions, alike by actions that revealed his own character and by his conversation, I will set down what I recollect of these. First, then, for his attitude towards religion; his deeds and words were clearly in harmony with the answer given by the Priestess at Delphi to such questions as What is my duty about sacrifice? or about cult of ancestors. For the answer of the Priestess is, Follow the custom of the State: that is the way to act piously. And so Socrates acted himself and counselled others to act. To take any other course he considered presumption and folly.

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

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1. Aristophanes, Peace, 1088 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 1088. ποῖον γὰρ κατὰ χρησμὸν ἐκαύσατε μῆρα θεοῖσιν;
2. Euripides, Electra, 171 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 171. ἀγγέλλει δ' ὅτι νῦν τριταί-
3. Plato, Epinomis, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 985c. five being really existent creatures, wherever any of us came upon them, either happening upon them in the dream-world of sleep, or by something spoken to persons listening in health, or equally in sickness, through ominous utterances and prophecies, or again when they have arrived at the end of life opinions that occur to us both in private and in public, whence many sanctities of many beings have arisen, and others shall arise—in regard to all these the lawgiver who possesses even the slightest degree of mind will never dare by innovations to turn his city to a divine worship which i
4. Plato, Euthyphro, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 14b. Socrates. You might, if you wished, Euthyphro, have answered much more briefly the chief part of my question. But it is plain that you do not care to instruct me.
5. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
6. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
7. Sophocles, Women of Trachis, 239 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 239. In payment of a vow, or at the command of an oracle? Lichas:
8. Xenophon, Memoirs, 2.2.13, 4.3.16 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 2.2.13. And yet, when you are resolved to cultivate these, you don’t think courtesy is due to your mother, who loves you more than all? Don’t you know that even the state ignores all other forms of ingratitude and pronounces no judgment on them, Cyropaedia I. ii. 7. caring nothing if the recipient of a favour neglects to thank his benefactor, but inflicts penalties on the man who is discourteous to his parents and rejects him as unworthy of office, holding that it would be a sin for him to offer sacrifices on behalf of the state and that he is unlikely to do anything else honourably and rightly? Aye, and if one fail to honour his parents’ graves, the state inquires into that too, when it examines the candidates for office. 4.3.16. Nay, be not down-hearted, Euthydemus; for you know that to the inquiry, How am I to please the gods? the Delphic god replies, Follow the custom of the state ; and everywhere, I suppose, it is the custom that men propitiate the gods with sacrifices according to their power. How then can a man honour the gods more excellently and more devoutly than by doing as they themselves ordain?
9. Aristotle, Politics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
10. Theophrastus, De Pietate, 3.15-3.18 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
11. Philodemus, (Pars I) \ On Piety, 880-884, 879 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
12. Demosthenes, Orations, 21.63, 21.126, 21.220-21.222

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
altars,founded by divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
altars	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
ammon	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132; Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
amphiaraus,of oropos	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
apollo,of magnesia	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
apollo	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178; Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 183
apollo of delphi on,and pollution	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
apollo of delphi on,and socrates	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
apollo of delphi on,aristotle on	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
apollo of delphi on,determining elements of cult	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58, 131, 132
aristophanes	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 46
aristotle,on apollo of delphi	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
aristotle,on divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
asebia (impiety),introduction into against midias	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
atheism	Versnel (2011), Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology, 556
athens	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 183
belief,believe,lack of	Versnel (2011), Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology, 556
charis,and sound thinking	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
charis,as human-god relationship	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
charis,to parents	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
choregos	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
customs	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
daimones,of plato	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
dead,the,divine guidance concerning	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131, 132
dead,the,funerals for	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
dead,the,making propitious	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
dead,the,service to	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36, 131, 132
dianira	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 46
diogenes of sinope,on sacrifice	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
dionysia	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
divination,and pollution	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
divination,and service to gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
divination,establishing elements of cult	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131, 132
divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131, 132
epicurus,on sacrifices	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
eusebeia	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
eusebia (piety),as civic virtue	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
exegetai	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
festivals,of magnesia	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
heroes,as deities,service to	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
honouring the gods,and service to gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
honouring the gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
language,disregarded by midias	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
lycurgus	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
lysias	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 183
midias	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
nomoi	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
old oligarch	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 183
omens	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
on sanctuaries	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
oracles,of ammon	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
oracles,of apollo of delphi	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
oracles,of zeus of dodona	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
oracles	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
parents,and charis	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
parents,honour to	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
parents,service to	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
plato	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 46
pollution,and divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
prayers,and charis	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
prayers,and religious correctness	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
prayers,and sound thinking	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
priests,status of	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
proper respect for gods,and charis	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
proper respect for gods,and nomoi	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58, 132
proper respect for gods,and service to gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58, 171
proper respect for gods,and socrates	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58, 131, 132
proper respect for gods,and sound thinking	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
proper respect for gods,apollo of delphi on	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58, 131, 132
proper respect for gods,through prayer	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
proper respect for gods,through sacrifice	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36, 58, 132, 171
proper respect for gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
propitiousness of gods,of the dead	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
psephismata	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
religion,social coherence	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
religious correctness,and charis	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
religious correctness,and proper respect for gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
religious correctness,and sacrifices	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58, 171
religious correctness,and service to gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
religious correctness,and sound thinking	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
religious correctness,as a virtue' "162.0_36@service to gods'"	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
religious correctness	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 171
rhetoric,manipulation of views	Martin (2009), Divine Talk: Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, 35
robert,louis	Versnel (2011), Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology, 556
sacrifice	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
sacrifices,and apollo of delphi	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58, 131, 132
sacrifices,and charis	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36, 171
sacrifices,and divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sacrifices,and nomoi	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sacrifices,and service to gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
sacrifices,and socrates	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sacrifices,criticisms of	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sacrifices,diogenes on	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sacrifices,epicurus on	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sacrifices,stoics on	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sacrifices	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
sanctuaries,and apollo of delphi	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131, 132
sanctuaries,and service to gods	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
sanctuaries,aristotle on	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
sanctuaries,founded by divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
sanctuaries,in magnesia	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
sanctuaries	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131, 132; Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
service to gods',and apollo of delphi"	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 131
service to gods',and charis"	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
slaves and slavery,serving the gods as	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
socrates	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 183
solon	Versnel (2011), Coping with the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology, 556
sophocles	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 46
sound thinking,and charis	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 36
statues	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
statues of gods,founded by divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
temples'	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
temples,founded by divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
theophrastus,on sacrifice	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 58
xenophon	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 46
zeus,and divination	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
zeus,naios of dodona	Mikalson (2016), New Aspects of Religion in Ancient Athens: Honors, Authorities, Esthetics, and Society, 178
zeus,of dodona	Mikalson (2010), Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy, 132
zeus	Naiden (2013), Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods, 46