1. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 47.12, 47.17 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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2. Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, 4.18.6 (2nd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
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3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.26.9, 3.26.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
| 2.26.9. From the one at Pergamus has been built in our own day the sanctuary of Asclepius by the sea at Smyrna . Further, at Balagrae of the Cyreneans there is an Asclepius called Healer, who like the others came from Epidaurus . From the one at Cyrene was founded the sanctuary of Asclepius at Lebene, in Crete . There is this difference between the Cyreneans and the Epidaurians, that whereas the former sacrifice goats, it is against the custom of the Epidaurians to do so. 3.26.1. From Oetylus to Thalamae the road is about eighty stades long. On it is a sanctuary of Ino and an oracle. They consult the oracle in sleep, and the goddess reveals whatever they wish to learn, in dreams. Bronze statues of Pasiphae and of Helios stand in the unroofed part of the sanctuary. It was not possible to see the one within the temple clearly, owing to the garlands, but they say this too is of bronze. Water, sweet to drink, flows from a sacred spring. Pasiphae is a title of the Moon, and is not a local goddess of the people of Thalamae . |
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4. Eusebius of Caesarea, Life of Constantine, 3.56 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)
| 3.56. For since a wide-spread error of these pretenders to wisdom concerned the demon worshipped in Cilicia, whom thousands regarded with reverence as the possessor of saving and healing power, who sometimes appeared to those who passed the night in his temple, sometimes restored the diseased to health, though on the contrary he was a destroyer of souls, who drew his easily deluded worshipers from the true Saviour to involve them in impious error, the emperor, consistently with his practice, and desire to advance the worship of him who is at once a jealous God and the true Saviour, gave directions that this temple also should be razed to the ground. In prompt obedience to this command, a band of soldiers laid this building, the admiration of noble philosophers, prostrate in the dust, together with its unseen inmate, neither demon nor god, but rather a deceiver of souls, who had seduced mankind for so long a time through various ages. And thus he who had promised to others deliverance from misfortune and distress, could find no means for his own security, any more than when, as is told in myth, he was scorched by the lightning's stroke. Our emperor's pious deeds, however, had in them nothing fabulous or feigned; but by virtue of the manifested power of his Saviour, this temple as well as others was so utterly overthrown, that not a vestige of the former follies was left behind. |
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5. Marinus, Vita Proclus, 32 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
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6. Epigraphy, Lsam, 24
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7. Epigraphy, Didyma, 132
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8. Epigraphy, Epigr. Tou Oropou, 277
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9. Epigraphy, Ig Ii2, 4962, 47
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10. Epigraphy, Seg, 44.505
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11. Epigraphy, Inscr. De Delos, 1417
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12. Epigraphy, Die Inschriften Von Pergamon, 161
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