Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Ion, 536c

nan and you have plenty to say: for it is not by art or knowledge about Homer that you say what you say, but by divine dispensation and possession; just as the Corybantian worshippers are keenly sensible of that strain alone which belongs to the god whose possession is on them, and have plenty of gestures and phrases for that tune, but do not heed any other. And so you, Ion, when the subject of Homer is mentioned, have plenty to say, but nothing on any of the others. And when you ask me the reason

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apollo,musegetes	Mikalson (2010) 221
artemis	Mikalson (2010) 221
athena	Mikalson (2010) 221
castration	Lateiner and Spatharas (2016) 235
dionysus,and wine	Mikalson (2010) 221
dionysus	Mikalson (2010) 221
excrement	Lateiner and Spatharas (2016) 235
galli'	Lateiner and Spatharas (2016) 235
hephaestus	Mikalson (2010) 221
muses	Mikalson (2010) 221
poets and poetry,and apollo	Mikalson (2010) 221
poets and poetry,and divine inspiration	Mikalson (2010) 221
poets and poetry,and muses	Mikalson (2010) 221
prometheus	Mikalson (2010) 221
war,success in,and athena	Mikalson (2010) 221
xenoi,and zeus xenios	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,herkeios	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,homophylos	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,horios	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,of magnesia	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,patroo¨s	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,phratrios	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,poliouchos	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus,xenios	Mikalson (2010) 221
zeus	Mikalson (2010) 221