1. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 2 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139| 2. σωτὴρ γενοῦ μοι ξύμμαχός τʼ αἰτουμένῳ· | |
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2. Cicero, On Divination, 1.37, 1.81 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11| 1.37. Age, barbari vani atque fallaces; num etiam Graiorum historia mentita est? Quae Croeso Pythius Apollo, ut de naturali divinatione dicam, quae Atheniensibus, quae Lacedaemoniis, quae Tegeatis, quae Argivis, quae Corinthiis responderit, quis ignorat? Collegit innumerabilia oracula Chrysippus nec ullum sine locuplete auctore atque teste; quae, quia nota tibi sunt, relinquo; defendo unum hoc: Numquam illud oraclum Delphis tam celebre et tam clarum fuisset neque tantis donis refertum omnium populorum atque regum, nisi omnis aetas oraclorum illorum veritatem esset experta. 1.81. Obiciuntur etiam saepe formae, quae reapse nullae sunt, speciem autem offerunt; quod contigisse Brenno dicitur eiusque Gallicis copiis, cum fano Apollinis Delphici nefarium bellum intulisset. Tum enim ferunt ex oraclo ecfatam esse Pythiam: Ego próvidebo rem ístam et albae vírgines. Ex quo factum, ut viderentur virgines ferre arma contra et nive Gallorum obrueretur exercitus. Aristoteles quidem eos etiam, qui valetudinis vitio furerent et melancholici dicerentur, censebat habere aliquid in animis praesagiens atque divinum. Ego autem haud scio an nec cardiacis hoc tribuendum sit nec phreneticis; animi enim integri, non vitiosi est corporis divinatio. | 1.37. Come, let us admit that the barbarians are all base deceivers, but are the Greek historians liars too?Speaking now of natural divination, everybody knows the oracular responses which the Pythian Apollo gave to Croesus, to the Athenians, Spartans, Tegeans, Argives, and Corinthians. Chrysippus has collected a vast number of these responses, attested in every instance by abundant proof. But I pass them by as you know them well. I will urge only this much, however, in defence: the oracle at Delphi never would have been so much frequented, so famous, and so crowded with offerings from peoples and kings of every land, if all ages had not tested the truth of its prophecies. For a long time now that has not been the case. 1.81. Frequently, too, apparitions present themselves and, though they have no real substance, they seem to have. This is illustrated by what is said to have happened to Brennus and to his Gallic troops after he had made an impious attack on the temple of Apollo at Delphi. The story is that the Pythian priestess, in speaking from the oracle, said to Brennus:To this the virgins white and I will see.The result was that the virgins were seen fighting against the Gauls, and their army was overwhelmed with snow.[38] Aristotle thought that even the people who rave from the effects of sickness and are called hypochondriacs have within their souls some power of foresight and of prophecy. But, for my part, I am inclined to think that such a power is not to be distributed either to a diseased stomach or to a disordered brain. On the contrary, it is the healthy soul and not the sickly body that has the power of divination. |
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3. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 22.9 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11 | 22.9. 1. Brennus, the king of the Gauls, accompanied by one hundred and fifty thousand infantry, armed with long shields, and ten thousand cavalry, together with a horde of camp followers, large numbers of traders, and two thousand waggons, invaded Macedonia and engaged in battle. Having in this conflict lost many men . . . as lacking sufficient strength . . . when later he advanced into Greece and to the oracle at Delphi, which he wished to plunder. In the mighty battle fought there he lost tens of thousands of his comrades-inâarms, and Brennus himself was three times wounded.,2. Weighed down and near to death, he assembled his host there and spoke to the Gauls. He advised them to kill him and all the wounded, to burn their waggons, and to return home unburdened; he advised them also to make Cichorius king. Then, after drinking deeply of undiluted wine, Brennus slew himself.,3. After Cichorius had given him burial, he killed the wounded and those who were victims of cold and starvation some twenty thousand in all; and so he began the journey homeward with the rest by the same route. In difficult terrain the Greeks would attack and cut off those in the rear, and carried off all their baggage. On the way to Thermopylae, food being scarce there, they abandoned twenty thousand more men. All the rest perished as they were going through the country of the Dardani, and not a single man was left to return home.,4. Brennus, the king of the Gauls, on entering a temple found no dedications of gold or silver, and when he came only upon images of stone and wood he laughed at them, to think that men, believing that gods have human form, should set up their images in wood and stone.,5. At the time of the Gallic invasion the inhabitants of Delphi, seeing that danger was at hand, asked the god if they should remove the treasures, the children, and the women from the shrine to the most strongly fortified of the neighbouring cities. The Pythia replied to the Delphians that the god commanded them to leave in place in the shrine the dedications and whatever else pertained to the adornment of the gods; for the god, and with him the White Maidens, would protect all. As there were in the sacred precinct two temples of extreme antiquity, one of Athena Pronaia and one of Artemis, they assumed that these goddesses were the "White Maidens" named in the oracle. |
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4. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1.4.4, 8.31.7 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11| 1.4.4. οὗτοι μὲν δὴ τοὺς Ἕλληνας τρόπον τὸν εἰρημένον ἔσωζον, οἱ δὲ Γαλάται Πυλῶν τε ἐντὸς ἦσαν καὶ τὰ πολίσματα ἑλεῖν ἐν οὐδενὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ποιησάμενοι Δελφοὺς καὶ τὰ χρήματα. τοῦ θεοῦ διαρπάσαι μάλιστα εἶχον σπουδήν. καί σφισιν αὐτοί τε Δελφοὶ καὶ Φωκέων ἀντετάχθησαν οἱ τὰς πόλεις περὶ τὸν Παρνασσὸν οἰκοῦντες, ἀφίκετο δὲ καὶ δύναμις Αἰτωλῶν· τὸ γὰρ Αἰτωλικὸν προεῖχεν ἀκμῇ νεότητος τὸν χρόνον τοῦτον. ὡς δὲ ἐς χεῖρας συνῄεσαν, ἐνταῦθα κεραυνοί τε ἐφέροντο ἐς τοὺς Γαλάτας καὶ ἀπορραγεῖσαι πέτραι τοῦ Παρνασσοῦ, δείματά τε ἄνδρες ἐφίσταντο ὁπλῖται τοῖς βαρβάροις· τούτων τοὺς μὲν ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων λέγουσιν ἐλθεῖν, Ὑπέροχον καὶ Ἀμάδοκον, τὸν δὲ τρίτον Πύρρον εἶναι τὸν Ἀχιλλέως· ἐναγίζουσι δὲ ἀπὸ ταύτης Δελφοὶ τῆς συμμαχίας Πύρρῳ, πρότερον ἔχοντες ἅτε ἀνδρὸς πολεμίου καὶ τὸ μνῆμα ἐν ἀτιμίᾳ. | 1.4.4. So they tried to save Greece in the way described, but the Gauls, now south of the Gates, cared not at all to capture the other towns, but were very eager to sack Delphi and the treasures of the god. They were opposed by the Delphians themselves and the Phocians of the cities around Parnassus ; a force of Aetolians also joined the defenders, for the Aetolians at this time were pre-eminent for their vigorous activity. When the forces engaged, not only were thunderbolts and rocks broken off from Parnassus hurled against the Gauls, but terrible shapes as armed warriors haunted the foreigners. They say that two of them, Hyperochus and Amadocus, came from the Hyperboreans, and that the third was Pyrrhus son of Achilles. Because of this help in battle the Delphians sacrifice to Pyrrhus as to a hero, although formerly they held even his tomb in dishonor, as being that of an enemy. |
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| 5. Epigraphy, Tam 15.3, 1633 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 6. Eust., Il., None Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 7. Epigraphy, I. Pisid.Cen., None Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 8. Epigraphy, Ig Ii/Iii 3 4, 1152, 1347 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 9. Callim., Fr., 379, 378 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11 |
| 10. Epigraphy, Seg, 38.1562, 39.1502 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 11. Epigraphy, Ivperge, None Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 12. Epigraphy, Mama, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 13. Justinus, Epitome Historiarum Philippicarum, 24.4-24.8 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11 |
| 14. Epigraphy, Ig Xii,7, 249 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 15. Epigraphy, Ig Xii,4, 68 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11 |
| 16. Epigraphy, Gerasa, 195 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 17. Callimachus, Hymns, 4.171 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11 |
| 18. Epigraphy, Ricis, 504/0216 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
| 19. Epigraphy, Ik Anazarbos, 49 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 11 |
| 20. Epigraphy, Igr I, 1153 Tagged with subjects: •hermes soter Found in books: Jim (2022), Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece, 139 |
