Tiresias: The Ancient Mediterranean Religions Source Database

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Plato, Menexenus, 237e

nan And we have a signal proof of this statement in that this land of ours has given birth to the forefathers both of these men and of ourselves. For every creature that brings forth possesses a suitable supply of nourishment for its offspring; and by this test it is manifest also whether a woman be truly a mother or no, if she possesses no founts of nourishment for her child. Soc. Now our land, which is also our mother, furnishes to the full this proof of her having brought forth men; for, of all the lands that then existed, she was the first and the only one to produce human nourishment

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agriculture,success in,and benevolence of gods	Mikalson (2010) 230
aristotle,on divination	Mikalson (2010) 230
aristotle,on dreams	Mikalson (2010) 230
artemis	Mikalson (2010) 230
athena,of athens	Mikalson (2010) 230
atlantis	Mikalson (2010) 230
autochthony,of the athenians	Isaac (2004) 122
celestial deities,cleanthes on	Mikalson (2010) 230
cleanthes,on benevolence of gods	Mikalson (2010) 230
cleanthes,on celestial bodies	Mikalson (2010) 230
cleanthes,on divination	Mikalson (2010) 230
cleanthes,on origins of belief in gods	Mikalson (2010) 230
critias	Mikalson (2010) 230
demiurge	Mikalson (2010) 230
descent and lineage,greek views on	Isaac (2004) 122
dionysus	Mikalson (2010) 230
divination,as proof of gods existence'	Mikalson (2010) 230
divination,cleanthes on	Mikalson (2010) 230
divination,xenophanes on	Mikalson (2010) 230
earth,as mother	Isaac (2004) 122
earth,as nurse	Isaac (2004) 122
epicurus,divination,rejection of	Mikalson (2010) 230
ge	Mikalson (2010) 230
hephaestus	Mikalson (2010) 230
plato,on athenian autochthony and pure lineage	Isaac (2004) 122
plato,on attica as the mother of the athenians	Isaac (2004) 122
poseidon,of atlantis	Mikalson (2010) 230
prometheus	Mikalson (2010) 230
protagoras	Mikalson (2010) 230
xenophanes,on divination	Mikalson (2010) 230