Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Alcibiades Ii, 138b

nan as I believe. For tell me, in Heaven’s name, do you not think that the gods sometimes grant in part, but in part refuse, what we ask of them in our private and public prayers, and gratify some people, but not others? Alc. I do, certainly. Soc. Then you would agree that one should take great precautions against falling unawares into the error of praying for great evils in the belief that they are good, while the gods happen to be disposed to grant freely what one is praying for? Just as Oedipus

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aristotle,on prayers	Mikalson (2010) 48
beauty,as object of prayer	Mikalson (2010) 48
oedipus	Mikalson (2010) 48
prayers,aristotle on	Mikalson (2010) 48
prayers,criticisms of	Mikalson (2010) 48
prayers,objects of	Mikalson (2010) 48
prayers,proper	Mikalson (2010) 48
prayers,pythagoras on	Mikalson (2010) 48
prayers	Mikalson (2010) 48
pythagoras and pythagoreans,on prayer	Mikalson (2010) 48
strength of body,as object of prayer	Mikalson (2010) 48
wealth,as object of prayer'	Mikalson (2010) 48