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14 results for "lucian"

1. Herodotus, Histories, 4.95 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •charon (lucian) Found in books: Neusner Green and Avery-Peck (2022), Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation: Turning Points and Focal Points, 164

4.95. I understand from the Greeks who live beside the Hellespont and Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was once a slave in Samos, his master being Pythagoras son of Mnesarchus; ,then, after being freed and gaining great wealth, he returned to his own country. Now the Thracians were a poor and backward people, but this Salmoxis knew Ionian ways and a more advanced way of life than the Thracian; for he had consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek teachers, Pythagoras; ,therefore he made a hall, where he entertained and fed the leaders among his countrymen, and taught them that neither he nor his guests nor any of their descendants would ever die, but that they would go to a place where they would live forever and have all good things. ,While he was doing as I have said and teaching this doctrine, he was meanwhile making an underground chamber. When this was finished, he vanished from the sight of the Thracians, and went down into the underground chamber, where he lived for three years, ,while the Thracians wished him back and mourned him for dead; then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians, and thus they came to believe what Salmoxis had told them. Such is the Greek story about him.

2. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.117-1.118, 2.7-2.10 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 348

1.117. Ennius ut noster cecinit, qui primus amoeno 1.118. detulit ex Helicone perenni fronde coronam, 2.7. sed nihil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere 2.8. edita doctrina sapientum templa serena, 2.9. despicere unde queas alios passimque videre 2.10. errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae,

3. Propertius, Elegies, 3.3.6 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 348

4. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 79.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 348

5. Lucian, Alexander The False Prophet, 38-40 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Neusner Green and Avery-Peck (2022), Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation: Turning Points and Focal Points, 164

6. Lucian, Parliament of The Gods, 11 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •charon (lucian) Found in books: Neusner Green and Avery-Peck (2022), Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation: Turning Points and Focal Points, 164

7. Lucian, The Runaways, 1, 10-12, 2-4, 6-9, 5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Neusner Green and Avery-Peck (2022), Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation: Turning Points and Focal Points, 164

8. Lucian, Nigrinus, 10, 35, 12 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Neusner Green and Avery-Peck (2022), Judaism from Moses to Muhammad: An Interpretation: Turning Points and Focal Points, 164

9. Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking, 7-9, 6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 348

10. Cyprian, Letters, 1.6 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 348

11. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 6.8 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: KÃ¶nig (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 45

6.8. He used to recommend the Athenians to vote that asses are horses. When they deemed this absurd, his reply was, But yet generals are found among you who had had no training, but were merely elected. Many men praise you, said one. Why, what wrong have I done? was his rejoinder. When he turned the torn part of his cloak so that it came into view, Socrates no sooner saw this than he said, I spy your love of fame peeping through your cloak. Phanias in his work on the Socratics tells us how some one asked him what he must do to be good and noble, and he replied, You must learn from those who know that the faults you have are to be avoided. When some one extolled luxury his reply was, May the sons of your enemies live in luxury.

12. Vergil, Eclogues, 6.64-6.73 Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 348

13. Anon., Acts of James The Less, 1 Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: KÃ¶nig (2012), Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture, 45

14. Galen, On The Diagnosis And Cure of The Errors of The Soul, None Tagged with subjects: •lucian, charon Found in books: Konig (2022), The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, 348

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