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24 results for "heavenly"
1. Homer, Iliad, 1.458-1.459 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 270
1.458. αὐτὰρ ἐπεί ῥʼ εὔξαντο καὶ οὐλοχύτας προβάλοντο, 1.459. αὐέρυσαν μὲν πρῶτα καὶ ἔσφαξαν καὶ ἔδειραν, 1.458. /ward off now from the Danaans the loathly pestilence. 1.459. ward off now from the Danaans the loathly pestilence. So he spoke in prayer, and Phoebus Apollo heard him. Then, when they had prayed, and had sprinkled the barley grains, they first drew back the victims' heads, and cut their throats, and flayed them, and cut out the thighs and covered them
2. Plato, Republic, 517b4-5 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •gods, heavenly Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 341
3. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, 1.587-1.588 (3rd cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 270
1.587. καί μιν κυδαίνοντες ὑπὸ κνέφας ἔντομα μήλων < 1.588. κεῖαν, ὀρινομένης ἁλὸς οἴδματι· διπλόα δʼ ἀκταῖς <
4. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 1.32, 1.148, 6.98 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 113
1.32. οἱ δὲ καταφυγόντες πρὸς ̓Αντίοχον ἱκέτευσαν αὐτοῖς ἡγεμόσι χρώμενον εἰς τὴν ̓Ιουδαίαν ἐμβαλεῖν. πείθεται δ' ὁ βασιλεὺς ὡρμημένος πάλαι, καὶ μετὰ πλείστης δυνάμεως αὐτὸς ὁρμήσας τήν τε πόλιν αἱρεῖ κατὰ κράτος καὶ πολὺ πλῆθος τῶν Πτολεμαίῳ προσεχόντων ἀναιρεῖ, ταῖς τε ἁρπαγαῖς ἀνέδην ἐπαφιεὶς τοὺς στρατιώτας αὐτὸς καὶ τὸν ναὸν ἐσύλησε καὶ τὸν ἐνδελεχισμὸν τῶν καθ' ἡμέραν ἐναγισμῶν ἔπαυσεν ἐπ' ἔτη τρία καὶ μῆνας ἕξ. 1.32. ̓Εφ' οἷς χαλεπήνας ̔Ηρώδης ὥρμησεν μὲν ἀμύνασθαι Μαχαιρᾶν ὡς πολέμιον, κρατήσας δὲ τῆς ὀργῆς ἤλαυνεν πρὸς ̓Αντώνιον κατηγορήσων τῆς Μαχαιρᾶ παρανομίας. ὁ δ' ἐν διαλογισμῷ τῶν ἡμαρτημένων γενόμενος ταχέως μεταδιώκει τε τὸν βασιλέα καὶ πολλὰ δεηθεὶς ἑαυτῷ διαλλάττει. 1.148. ̓́Ενθα δὴ πολλὰ τῶν ̔Ρωμαίων κακοπαθούντων ὁ Πομπήιος τά τε ἄλλα τῆς καρτερίας τοὺς ̓Ιουδαίους ἀπεθαύμαζεν καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ μηδὲν παραλῦσαι: τῆς θρησκείας ἐν μέσοις τοῖς βέλεσιν ἀνειλημένους: ὥσπερ γὰρ εἰρήνης βαθείας κατεχούσης τὴν πόλιν αἵ τε θυσίαι καθ' ἡμέραν καὶ οἱ ἐναγισμοὶ καὶ πᾶσα θεραπεία κατὰ τἀκριβὲς ἐξετελεῖτο τῷ θεῷ, καὶ οὐδὲ κατ' αὐτὴν τὴν ἅλωσιν περὶ τῷ βωμῷ φονευόμενοι τῶν καθ' ἡμέραν νομίμων εἰς τὴν θρησκείαν ἀπέστησαν. 6.98. πρὸς ταῦτα τοῦ δήμου μὲν ἦν κατήφεια καὶ σιγή, πολλὰ δ' ὁ τύραννος λοιδορηθείς τε τῷ ̓Ιωσήπῳ καὶ καταρασάμενος τὸ τελευταῖον προσέθηκεν, ὡς οὐκ ἄν ποτε δείσειεν ἅλωσιν: θεοῦ γὰρ ὑπάρχειν τὴν πόλιν. 1.32. who fled to Antiochus, and besought him to make use of them for his leaders, and to make an expedition into Judea. The king being thereto disposed beforehand, complied with them, and came upon the Jews with a great army, and took their city by force, and slew a great multitude of those that favored Ptolemy, and sent out his soldiers to plunder them without mercy. He also spoiled the temple, and put a stop to the constant practice of offering a daily sacrifice of expiation for three years and six months. 1.148. 4. Now, here it was that, upon the many hardships which the Romans underwent, Pompey could not but admire not only at the other instances of the Jews’ fortitude, but especially that they did not at all intermit their religious services, even when they were encompassed with darts on all sides; for, as if the city were in full peace, their daily sacrifices and purifications, and every branch of their religious worship, was still performed to God with the utmost exactness. Nor indeed when the temple was actually taken, and they were every day slain about the altar, did they leave off the instances of their Divine worship that were appointed by their law; 6.98. At these words of his a great sadness and silence were observed among the people. But the tyrant himself cast many reproaches upon Josephus, with imprecations besides; and at last added this withal, that he did never fear the taking of the city, because it was God’s own city.
5. Alcinous, Handbook of Platonism, 15.171, 22-3 p. 35 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 331
6. Aelian, Varia Historia, 5.21 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 113
5.21. Some say that the relation concerning Medea is false, and that she did not kill her children, but the Corinthians. This fable concerning Colchis, and the Tragedy (Medea) they say Euripides made at the request of the Corinthians. The falsity prevailed above the truth, by reason of the excellency of the poet. But for the Murther of the children, they say that even to this day the Corinthians offer expiatory sacrifices to them; which they render as a kind of Tribute.
7. Pollux, Onomasticon, 1.7-1.8 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 50
8. Porphyry, Philosophy From Oracles, 117, 120, 112 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 113
9. Plotinus, Enneads, 5.8.1 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 341
10. Origen, Against Celsus, 9 p. 372, 6.77 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 331
11. Iamblichus, Concerning The Mysteries, 2.7.85, 17 p. 89 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 341
12. Sallustius, On The Gods, 18.1-2 p. 23 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •gods, heavenly Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 340
13. Synesius of Cyrene, Hymni, 6.27 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 113
14. Proclus, In Platonis Timaeum Commentarii, 1.19, 1.255, 1.362, 1.418 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 331, 341
15. Proclus, In Platonis Cratylum Commentaria, 10-11, 76, 4 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 341
17. Anon., Proleg., 14-17 p. 27, 13  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Schibli, Hierocles of Alexandria (2002) 331
18. Ptolemaios of Askalon, Lexicon, s.v. βωμός  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 50
20. Markellos, Fr. (Klostermann &Amp; Hansen 1991), 125  Tagged with subjects: •heavenly gods Found in books: Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults in the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic Period (2013) 113