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7 results for "forgetfulness"

1. Homer, Odyssey, 24.11 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •forgetfulness, waters of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007) 109

2. Theognis, Elegies, 704-705 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007) 117

3. Pindar, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007) 101

4. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 2.61-2.62 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •forgetfulness, waters of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007) 109

5. Plato, Protagoras, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •forgetfulness, waters of Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007) 104

6. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007) 116

621a. ἀνάγκης ἰέναι θρόνον, καὶ διʼ ἐκείνου διεξελθόντα, ἐπειδὴ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι διῆλθον, πορεύεσθαι ἅπαντας εἰς τὸ τῆς Λήθης πεδίον διὰ καύματός τε καὶ πνίγους δεινοῦ· καὶ γὰρ εἶναι αὐτὸ κενὸν δένδρων τε καὶ ὅσα γῆ φύει. σκηνᾶσθαι οὖν σφᾶς ἤδη ἑσπέρας γιγνομένης παρὰ τὸν Ἀμέλητα ποταμόν, οὗ τὸ ὕδωρ ἀγγεῖον οὐδὲν στέγειν. μέτρον μὲν οὖν τι τοῦ ὕδατος πᾶσιν ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι πιεῖν, τοὺς δὲ φρονήσει μὴ σῳζομένους πλέον πίνειν τοῦ μέτρου· τὸν δὲ ἀεὶ πιόντα

621a. And after it had passed through that, when the others also had passed, they all journeyed to the Plain of Oblivion, through a terrible and stifling heat, for it was bare of trees and all plants, and there they camped at eventide by the River of Forgetfulness, whose waters no vessel can contain. They were all required to drink a measure of the water, and those who were not saved by their good sense drank more than the measure, and each one as he drank forgot all things.

7. Plutarch, Letter of Condolence To Apollonius, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Graf and Johnston (2007) 101

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