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Demosthenes, On The Crown, 259
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Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

211e. But tell me, what would happen if one of you had the fortune to look upon essential beauty entire, pure and unalloyed; not infected with the flesh and color of humanity, and ever so much more of mortal trash? What if he could behold the divine beauty itself, in its unique form?
2. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 3.1-3.2 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

3. Philo of Alexandria, Who Is The Heir, 299 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

299. for the first number is that into which it is not possible to receive any idea of either good or evil, since the soul is as yet destitute of all impressions; and the second is that in which we indulge in a rapid course of the passions; and the third is that in which we are healed, repelling the infections of disease, and at last ceasing to feel the evil vigour of the passions; the fourth is that in which we acquire complete and perfect health and vigour, when rejecting what is bad we appear to endeavor to apply to what is good, which previously was not in our power. LX.
4. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 63 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE)

63. And it has not fallen to the lot of all the suppliants to become guardians of the holy things, but to those only who have arrived at the number fifty, which proclaims remission of offences and perfect liberty and a return to their ancient possessions. "For this," says the Scripture, "is the law concerning the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upwards, they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service thereof, and shall serve no more; but shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall keep what is to be kept, and shall do no Service.


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
aeschines Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
athens,tribes and kinship groups Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
communal religion Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
contemplation Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
conversion,moral Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
conversion,philosophical Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
conversion,ritual Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
cosmology/cosmological Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
cultic ritual practice,feasting Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
cultural memory,public vs. private ritual practice Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
cultural memory,tribes and kinship groups Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
dionysiac Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
dionysos (bacchus,god),dionysia festivals Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
education/educational Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
epistrophê Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
festivals,anthesteria Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
festivals,apatouria Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
festivals,dionysia Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
festivals,panathenaia Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
festivals,proerosia Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
festivals,pyanopsia Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
festivals,thesmophoria Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
goal/telos of philosophical life Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
metanoia/metanoeō Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
mystery cult Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
parker,robert c. t. Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
perfection Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
periagôgê Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
philosophy,philosophical Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
poland,franz Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
pythagorean Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
ritual Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
sacrifice (thysia)' Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263
semantics Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
senses Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
socratic Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
soul Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
turning soul Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
universe Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
vertical metaphor/movement Despotis and Lohr (2022) 204
whitehead,david Eidinow and Kindt (2015) 263