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13 results for "mystic"

1. Aeschylus, Fragments, 59 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •mystic initiation, transition to joy in Found in books: Seaford (2018) 375

2. Aeschylus, Fragments, 59 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •mystic initiation, transition to joy in Found in books: Seaford (2018) 375

3. Sophocles, Ajax, 394-395, 648-652, 655, 670, 672-676, 682-683, 685-686, 693, 671 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 219

4. Sophocles, Electra, 1247-1250, 1246 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 216

5. Aristophanes, Clouds, 319 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •mystic initiation, transition to joy in Found in books: Seaford (2018) 371

319. ταῦτ' ἄρ' ἀκούσας' αὐτῶν τὸ φθέγμ' ἡ ψυχή μου πεπότηται,

6. Euripides, Bacchae, 748, 957-958 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 375

958. λέκτρων ἔχεσθαι φιλτάτοις ἐν ἕρκεσιν. Διόνυσος

7. Euripides, Cyclops, 434, 433 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 375

433. ὥσπερ πρὸς ἰξῷ τῇ κύλικι λελημμένος

8. Euripides, Ion, 1204-1207, 1203 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 375

9. Plato, Phaedo, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 371

108a. μὲν γὰρ ἁπλῆν οἶμόν φησιν εἰς Ἅιδου φέρειν, ἡ δ᾽ οὔτε ἁπλῆ οὔτε μία φαίνεταί μοι εἶναι. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἂν ἡγεμόνων ἔδει: οὐ γάρ πού τις ἂν διαμάρτοι οὐδαμόσε μιᾶς ὁδοῦ οὔσης. νῦν δὲ ἔοικε σχίσεις τε καὶ τριόδους πολλὰς ἔχειν: ἀπὸ τῶν θυσιῶν τε καὶ νομίμων τῶν ἐνθάδε τεκμαιρόμενος λέγω. ἡ μὲν οὖν κοσμία τε καὶ φρόνιμος ψυχὴ ἕπεταί τε καὶ οὐκ ἀγνοεῖ τὰ παρόντα: ἡ δ’ ἐπιθυμητικῶς τοῦ σώματος ἔχουσα, ὅπερ ἐν τῷ ἔμπροσθεν εἶπον, περὶ ἐκεῖνο πολὺν

108a. for he says a simple path leads to the lower world, but I think the path is neither simple nor single, for if it were, there would be no need of guides, since no one could miss the way to any place if there were only one road. But really there seem to be many forks of the road and many windings; this I infer from the rites and ceremonies practiced here on earth. Now the orderly and wise soul follows its guide and understands its circumstances; but the soul that is desirous of the body, as I said before, flits about it, and in the visible world for a long time,

10. Plato, Phaedrus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Seaford (2018) 221

11. Plutarch, Fragments, 178 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •mystic initiation, transition to joy in Found in books: Seaford (2018) 334

12. Plutarch, Moralia, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •mystic initiation, transition to joy in Found in books: Seaford (2018) 371

13. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 22.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •mystic initiation, transition to joy in Found in books: Seaford (2018) 221

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