| 1. Thales, Fragments, None (7th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 205 |
2. Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 10-11, 907-917, 919-996, 918 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 20| 918. οὐδὲν γὰρ αὐτῷ ταῦτʼ ἐπαρκέσει τὸ μὴ οὐ | |
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| 3. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 2.83-2.85 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 1 |
| 4. Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
| 5. Sophocles Iunior, Fragments, 753.2 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
| 6. Euripides, Hippolytus, 25 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
| 7. Euripides, Children of Heracles, 613 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
| 8. Euripides, Fragments, 25 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
9. Euripides, Bacchae, 474 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3| 474. οὐ θέμις ἀκοῦσαί σʼ, ἔστι δʼ ἄξιʼ εἰδέναι. Πενθεύς | |
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| 10. Andocides, On The Mysteries, 31 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
11. Herodotus, Histories, 1.32.1, 1.34.1, 1.61.4, 1.64.2, 1.171.1-1.171.3, 1.171.5, 2.81, 6.97.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 20, 47, 210 | 1.32.1. Thus Solon granted second place in happiness to these men. Croesus was vexed and said, “My Athenian guest, do you so much despise our happiness that you do not even make us worth as much as common men?” Solon replied, “Croesus, you ask me about human affairs, and I know that the divine is entirely grudging and troublesome to us. 1.34.1. But after Solon's departure divine retribution fell heavily on Croesus; as I guess, because he supposed himself to be blessed beyond all other men. Directly, as he slept, he had a dream, which showed him the truth of the evil things which were going to happen concerning his son. 1.61.4. and in course of time, not to make a long story, everything was ready for their return: for they brought Argive mercenaries from the Peloponnese , and there joined them on his own initiative a man of Naxos called Lygdamis, who was most keen in their cause and brought them money and men. 1.64.2. (He had conquered Naxos too and put Lygdamis in charge.) And besides this, he purified the island of Delos as a result of oracles, and this is how he did it: he removed all the dead that were buried in ground within sight of the temple and conveyed them to another part of Delos . 1.171.1. Harpagus, after subjugating Ionia , made an expedition against the Carians, Caunians, and Lycians, taking Ionians and Aeolians with him. 1.171.2. of these, the Carians have come to the mainland from the islands; for in the past they were islanders, called Leleges and under the rule of Minos, not (as far as I can learn by report) paying tribute, but manning ships for him when he needed them. 1.171.3. Since Minos had subjected a good deal of territory for himself and was victorious in war, this made the Carians too at that time by far the most respected of all nations. 1.171.5. Then, a long time afterwards, the Carians were driven from the islands by Dorians and Ionians and so came to the mainland. This is the Cretan story about the Carians; but the Carians themselves do not subscribe to it, but believe that they are aboriginal inhabitants of the mainland and always bore the name which they bear now; 2.81. They wear linen tunics with fringes hanging about the legs, called “calasiris,” and loose white woolen mantles over these. But nothing woolen is brought into temples, or buried with them: that is impious. ,They agree in this with practices called Orphic and Bacchic, but in fact Egyptian and Pythagorean: for it is impious, too, for one partaking of these rites to be buried in woolen wrappings. There is a sacred legend about this. 6.97.2. “Holy men, why have you fled away, and so misjudged my intent? It is my own desire, and the king's command to me, to do no harm to the land where the two gods were born, neither to the land itself nor to its inhabitants. So return now to your homes and dwell on your island.” He made this proclamation to the Delians, and then piled up three hundred talents of frankincense on the altar and burnt it. |
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12. Aristophanes, Clouds, 365-381, 563-565, 816-828, 382 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 20| 382. ἀτὰρ οὐδέν πω περὶ τοῦ πατάγου καὶ τῆς βροντῆς μ' ἐδίδαξας. | |
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13. Aristophanes, Frogs, 186 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 165| 186. τίς ἐς τὸ Λήθης πεδίον, ἢ ς' ̓́Ονου πόκας, | |
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| 14. Sophocles, Fragments, 753.2 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
15. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 10| 364e. λοιβῇ τε κνίσῃ τε παρατρωπῶσʼ ἄνθρωποι λισσόμενοι, ὅτε κέν τις ὑπερβήῃ καὶ ἁμάρτῃ. Hom. Il. 9.497 βίβλων δὲ ὅμαδον παρέχονται Μουσαίου καὶ Ὀρφέως, Σελήνης τε καὶ Μουσῶν ἐκγόνων, ὥς φασι, καθʼ ἃς θυηπολοῦσιν, πείθοντες οὐ μόνον ἰδιώτας ἀλλὰ καὶ πόλεις, ὡς ἄρα λύσεις τε καὶ καθαρμοὶ ἀδικημάτων διὰ θυσιῶν καὶ | 364e. And incense and libation turn their wills Praying, whenever they have sinned and made transgression. Hom. Il. 9.497 And they produce a bushel of books of Musaeus and Orpheus, the offspring of the Moon and of the Muses, as they affirm, and these books they use in their ritual, and make not only ordinary men but states believe that there really are remissions of sins and purifications for deeds of injustice, by means of sacrifice and pleasant sport for the living, |
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16. Plato, Symposium, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 1| 218b. Ἐρυξιμάχους, Παυσανίας, Ἀριστοδήμους τε καὶ Ἀριστοφάνας· Σωκράτη δὲ αὐτὸν τί δεῖ λέγειν, καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι; πάντες γὰρ κεκοινωνήκατε τῆς φιλοσόφου μανίας τε καὶ βακχείας—διὸ πάντες ἀκούσεσθε· συγγνώσεσθε γὰρ τοῖς τε τότε πραχθεῖσι καὶ τοῖς νῦν λεγομένοις. οἱ δὲ οἰκέται, καὶ εἴ τις ἄλλος ἐστὶν βέβηλός τε καὶ ἄγροικος, πύλας πάνυ μεγάλας τοῖς ὠσὶν ἐπίθεσθε. | 218b. a Pausanias, an Aristodemus, and an Aristophanes—I need not mention Socrates himself—and all the rest of them; every one of you has had his share of philosophic frenzy and transport, so all of you shall hear. You shall stand up alike for what then was done and for what now is spoken. But the domestics, and all else profane and clownish, must clap the heaviest of doors upon their ears. |
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17. Thucydides, The History of The Peloponnesian War, 1.4.1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 210| 1.4.1. Μίνως γὰρ παλαίτατος ὧν ἀκοῇ ἴσμεν ναυτικὸν ἐκτήσατο καὶ τῆς νῦν Ἑλληνικῆς θαλάσσης ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἐκράτησε καὶ τῶν Κυκλάδων νήσων ἦρξέ τε καὶ οἰκιστὴς πρῶτος τῶν πλείστων ἐγένετο, Κᾶρας ἐξελάσας καὶ τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ παῖδας ἡγεμόνας ἐγκαταστήσας: τό τε λῃστικόν, ὡς εἰκός, καθῄρει ἐκ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐφ’ ὅσον ἐδύνατο, τοῦ τὰς προσόδους μᾶλλον ἰέναι αὐτῷ. | 1.4.1. And the first person known to us by tradition as having established a navy is Minos. He made himself master of what is now called the Hellenic sea, and ruled over the Cyclades , into most of which he sent the first colonies, expelling the Carians and appointing his own sons governors; and thus did his best to put down piracy in those waters, a necessary step to secure the revenues for his own use. |
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18. Aristophanes, Birds, 1605, 1643, 1706-1754, 1756-1765, 1755 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 20| 1755. ̔Υμὴν ὦ ̔Υμέναι' ὦ. 1755. ἔπεσθε νῦν γάμοισιν ὦ | |
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| 19. Aristotle, Metaphysics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 205 |
| 20. Theophrastus, Characters, 27.8 (4th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 275 |
| 21. Aristotle, Politics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 210 |
| 22. Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation, 2.30 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 409 |
23. Philo of Alexandria, On The Migration of Abraham, 222 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 409 | 222. So that never, O my mind, do thou become effeminate and yield; but even if any thing does appear difficult to be discovered by contemplation, still opening the seeing faculties that are in thyself, look inwards and investigate existing things more accurately, and never close the eyes whether intentionally or unintentionally; for sleep is a blind thing as wakefulness is a sharp-sighted thing. And it is well to be content if by assiduity in investigation it is granted to thee to arrive at a correct conception of the objects of thy search. |
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24. Philo of Alexandria, On Dreams, 1.1, 1.167-1.168 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 409 | 1.1. The treatise before this one has contained our opinions on those visions sent from heaven which are classed under the first species; in reference to which subject we delivered our opinion that the Deity sent the appearances which are beheld by man in dreams in accordance with the suggestions of his own nature. But in this treatise we will, to the best of our power, describe those dreams which come under the second species. 1.167. is it not then worth while to examine into the cause of this difference? Undoubtedly it is; let us then in a careful manner apply ourselves to the consideration of the cause. Philosophers say that virtue exists among men, either by nature, or by practice, or by learning. On which account the sacred scriptures represent the three founders of the nation of the Israelites as wise men; not indeed originally endowed with the same kind of wisdom, but arriving rapidly at the same end. 1.168. For the eldest of them, Abraham, had instruction for his guide in the road which conducted him to virtue; as we shall show in another treatise to the best of our power. And Isaac, who is the middle one of the three, had a self-taught and self-instructed nature. And Jacob, the third, arrived at this point by industry and practice, in accordance with which were his labours of wrestling and contention. |
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| 25. Catullus, Poems, 64.260 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
26. Philo of Alexandria, On The Contemplative Life, 26 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 409 | 26. Therefore they always retain an imperishable recollection of God, so that not even in their dreams is any other object ever presented to their eyes except the beauty of the divine virtues and of the divine powers. Therefore many persons speak in their sleep, divulging and publishing the celebrated doctrines of the sacred philosophy. |
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27. Dionysius of Halycarnassus, Roman Antiquities, 8.52.4 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 165 | 8.52.4. And if there is in very truth a place which will receive men's souls when released from the body, it is not that subterranean and gloomy place where, men say, the unhappy dwell, that will receive mine, nor the region called the Plain of Lethe, but the pure ether high up in the heavens, where, as report has it, those who are sprung from the gods dwell, enjoying a happy and a blessed life; and to them my soul will relate your piety and the acts of kindness with which you honoured her, and will ever ask the gods to requite you with glorious rewards. |
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| 28. Philo of Alexandria, On Sobriety, 5 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 409 |
29. Philo of Alexandria, On The Special Laws, 2.103 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 409 | 2.103. This long interval between sleeping and waking nature has allotted to men, that they may by turns labour diligently and by turns rest, so as to have all the parts of their bodies more ready for action, and more active and powerful.XXI. |
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30. Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 1.4.1 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 210| 1.4.1. τῶν δὲ Κοίου θυγατέρων Ἀστερία μὲν ὁμοιωθεῖσα ὄρτυγι ἑαυτὴν εἰς θάλασσαν ἔρριψε, φεύγουσα τὴν πρὸς Δία συνουσίαν· καὶ πόλις ἀπʼ ἐκείνης Ἀστερία πρότερον κληθεῖσα, ὕστερον δὲ Δῆλος. Λητὼ δὲ συνελθοῦσα Διὶ κατὰ τὴν γῆν ἅπασαν ὑφʼ Ἥρας ἠλαύνετο, μέχρις εἰς Δῆλον ἐλθοῦσα γεννᾷ πρώτην Ἄρτεμιν, ὑφʼ ἧς μαιωθεῖσα ὕστερον Ἀπόλλωνα ἐγέννησεν. Ἄρτεμις μὲν οὖν τὰ περὶ θήραν ἀσκήσασα παρθένος ἔμεινεν, Ἀπόλλων δὲ τὴν μαντικὴν μαθὼν παρὰ Πανὸς τοῦ Διὸς καὶ Ὕβρεως 1 -- ἧκεν εἰς Δελφούς, χρησμῳδούσης τότε Θέμιδος· ὡς δὲ ὁ φρουρῶν τὸ μαντεῖον Πύθων ὄφις ἐκώλυεν αὐτὸν παρελθεῖν ἐπὶ τὸ χάσμα, τοῦτον ἀνελὼν τὸ μαντεῖον παραλαμβάνει. κτείνει δὲ μετʼ οὐ πολὺ καὶ Τιτυόν, ὃς ἦν Διὸς υἱὸς καὶ τῆς Ὀρχομενοῦ θυγατρὸς Ἐλάρης, 2 -- ἣν Ζεύς, ἐπειδὴ συνῆλθε, δείσας Ἥραν ὑπὸ γῆν ἔκρυψε, καὶ τὸν κυοφορηθέντα παῖδα Τιτυὸν ὑπερμεγέθη εἰς φῶς ἀνήγαγεν. οὗτος ἐρχομένην 1 -- εἰς Πυθὼ Λητὼ θεωρήσας, πόθῳ κατασχεθεὶς ἐπισπᾶται· ἡ δὲ τοὺς παῖδας ἐπικαλεῖται καὶ κατατοξεύουσιν αὐτόν. κολάζεται δὲ καὶ μετὰ θάνατον· γῦπες γὰρ αὐτοῦ τὴν καρδίαν ἐν Ἅιδου ἐσθίουσιν. | |
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| 31. Plutarch, Sayings of The Spartans, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 275 |
| 32. Plutarch, Moralia, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 205 |
| 33. Plutarch, Table Talk, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
34. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9.39-9.40, 9.39.7, 10.1.11 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 116, 165| 9.39.7. πρῶτα μὲν ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ αὐτὸν ἄγουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν ποταμὸν τὴν Ἕρκυναν, ἀγαγόντες δὲ ἐλαίῳ χρίουσι καὶ λούουσι δύο παῖδες τῶν ἀστῶν ἔτη τρία που καὶ δέκα γεγονότες, οὓς Ἑρμᾶς ἐπονομάζουσιν· οὗτοι τὸν καταβαίνοντά εἰσιν οἱ λούοντες καὶ ὁπόσα χρὴ διακονούμενοι ἅτε παῖδες. τὸ ἐντεῦθεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἱερέων οὐκ αὐτίκα ἐπὶ τὸ μαντεῖον, ἐπὶ δὲ ὕδατος πηγὰς ἄγεται· αἱ δὲ ἐγγύτατά εἰσιν ἀλλήλων. 10.1.11. εὑρέθη δὲ καὶ ὕστερον τοῖς Φωκεῦσιν οὐκ ἀποδέον σοφίᾳ τῶν προτέρων. ὡς γὰρ δὴ τὰ στρατόπεδα ἀντεκάθητο περὶ τὴν ἐς τὴν Φωκίδα ἐσβολήν, λογάδες Φωκέων πεντακόσιοι φυλάσσοντες πλήρη τὸν κύκλον τῆς σελήνης ἐπιχειροῦσιν ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ τοῖς Θεσσαλοῖς, αὐτοί τε ἀληλιμμένοι γύψῳ καὶ ἐνδεδυκότες ὅπλα λευκὰ ἐπὶ τῇ γύψῳ. ἐνταῦθα ἐξεργασθῆναι φόνον τῶν Θεσσαλῶν λέγεται πλεῖστον, θειότερόν τι ἡγουμένων ἢ κατὰ ἔφοδον πολεμίων τὸ ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ συμβαῖνον. ὁ δὲ Ἠλεῖος ἦν Τελλίας ὃς καὶ ταῦτα τοῖς Φωκεῦσιν ἐμηχανήσατο ἐς τοὺς Θεσσαλούς. | 9.39.7. First, during the night he is taken to the river Hercyna by two boys of the citizens about thirteen years old, named Hermae, who after taking him there anoint him with oil and wash him. It is these who wash the descender, and do all the other necessary services as his attendant boys. After this he is taken by the priests, not at once to the oracle, but to fountains of water very near to each other. 10.1.11. Afterwards the Phocians discovered a stratagem quite as clever as their former ones. For when the armies were lying opposite each other at the pass into Phocis , five hundred picked men of Phocis , waiting until the moon was full, attacked the Thessalians on that night, first smearing themselves with chalk and, in addition to the chalk, putting on white armour. It is said that there then occurred a wholesale slaughter of the Thessalians, who thought this apparition of the night to be too unearthly to be an attack of their enemies. It was Tellias of Elis who devised this stratagem also for the Phocians to use against the Thessalians. |
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| 35. Lucian, On Mourning, 5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 165 |
| 36. Polyaenus, Stratagems, 6.18.1, 7.5.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 116, 266 |
| 37. Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, 5.8.39-5.8.40, 5.9.8 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 266 |
38. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 11.5 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 37 | 11.5. “Behold, Lucius, I have come! Your weeping and prayers have moved me to succor you. I am she who is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, queen of heaven! I am the principal of the celestial gods, the light of the goddesses. At my will the planets of the heavens, the wholesome winds of the seas, and the silences of hell are disposed. My name and my divinity is adored throughout all the world in diverse manners. I am worshipped by various customs and by many names. The Phrygians call me the mother of the gods. The Athenians, Minerva. The Cyprians, Venus. The Cretans, Diana. The Sicilians, Proserpina. The Eleusians, Ceres. Some call me Juno, other Bellona, and yet others Hecate. And principally the Aethiopians who dwell in the Orient, and the Aegyptians who are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine and by their proper ceremonies are accustomed to worship me, call me Queen Isis. Behold, I have come to take pity of your fortune and tribulation. Behold, I am present to favor and aid you. Leave off your weeping and lamentation, put away all your sorrow. For behold, the day which is ordained by my providence is at hand. Therefore be ready to attend to my command. This day which shall come after this night is dedicated to my service by an eternal religion. My priests and ministers are accustomed, after the tempests of the sea have ceased, to offer in my name a new ship as a first fruit of my navigation. I command you not to profane or despise the sacrifice in any way. |
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| 39. Aelius Aristides, Orations, 22.2, 22.12 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
| 40. Vettius Valens, Anthologies, None (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 1 |
| 41. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 5.8.39-5.8.40, 5.9.8 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 266 |
42. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 2.17, 9.18 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 51, 205 | 2.17. His theory is to this effect. Water is melted by heat and produces on the one hand earth in so far as by the action of fire it sinks and coheres, while on the other hand it generates air in so far as it overflows on all sides. Hence the earth is confined by the air, and the air by the circumambient fire. Living things, he holds, are generated from the earth when it is heated and throws off slime of the consistency of milk to serve as a sort of nourishment, and in this same way the earth produced man. He was the first who explained the production of sound as being the concussion of the air, and the formation of the sea in hollow places as due to its filtering through the earth. He declared the sun to be the largest of the heavenly bodies and the universe to be unlimited.There have been three other men who bore the name of Archelaus: the topographer who described the countries traversed by Alexander; the author of a treatise on Natural Curiosities; and lastly a rhetorician who wrote a handbook on his art. 9.18. 2. XENOPHANESXenophanes, a native of Colophon, the son of Dexius, or, according to Apollodorus, of Orthomenes, is praised by Timon, whose words at all events are:Xenophanes, not over-proud, perverter of Homer, castigator.He was banished from his native city and lived at Zancle in Sicily [and having joined the colony planted at Elea taught there]. He also lived in Catana. According to some he was no man's pupil, according to others he was a pupil of Boton of Athens, or, as some say, of Archelaus. Sotion makes him a contemporary of Anaximander. His writings are in epic metre, as well as elegiacs and iambics attacking Hesiod and Homer and denouncing what they said about the gods. Furthermore he used to recite his own poems. It is stated that he opposed the views of Thales and Pythagoras, and attacked Epimenides also. He lived to a very great age, as his own words somewhere testify: |
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| 43. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 3.11 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 266 |
| 44. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 6.170, 27.204, 27.228, 29.274, 30.122, 34.144, 47.733 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 116 |
45. Strabo, Geography, 6.3.4, 10.5.2, 10.5.5, 14.1.20 Tagged with subjects: •orphic rites and mysticism Found in books: Munn (2006), The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. 210 | 6.3.4. At one time the Tarantini were exceedingly powerful, that is, when they enjoyed a democratic government; for they not only had acquired the largest fleet of all peoples in that part of the world but were wont to send forth an army of thirty thousand infantry, three thousand cavalry, and one thousand commanders of cavalry. Moreover, the Pythagorean philosophy was embraced by them, but especially by Archytas, who presided over the city for a considerable time. But later, because of their prosperity, luxury prevailed to such an extent that the public festivals celebrated among them every year were more in number than the days of the year; and in consequence of this they also were poorly governed. One evidence of their bad policies is the fact that they employed foreign generals; for they sent for Alexander the Molossian to lead them in their war against the Messapians and Leucanians, and, still before that, for Archidamus, the son of Agesilaus, and, later on, for Cleonymus, and Agathocles, and then for Pyrrhus, at the time when they formed a league with him against the Romans. And yet even to those whom they called in they could not yield a ready obedience, and would set them at enmity. At all events, it was out of enmity that Alexander tried to transfer to Thurian territory the general festival assembly of all Greek peoples in that part of the world — the assembly which was wont to meet at Heracleotes in Tarantine territory, and that he began to urge that a place for the meetings be fortified on the Acalandrus River. Furthermore, it is said that the unhappy end which befell him was the result of their ingratitude. Again, about the time of the wars with Hannibal, they were deprived of their freedom, although later they received a colony of Romans, and are now living at peace and better than before. In their war against the Messapians for the possession of Heracleia, they had the co-operation of the king of the Daunians and the king of the Peucetians. 10.5.2. Now the city which belongs to Delos, as also the sanctuary of Apollo, and the Letoum, are situated in a plain; and above the city lies Cynthus, a bare and rugged mountain; and a river named Inopus flows through the island — not a large river, for the island itself is small. From olden times, beginning with the times of the heroes, Delos has been revered because of its gods, for the myth is told that there Leto was delivered of her travail by the birth of Apollo and Artemis: for aforetime, says Pindar,it was tossed by the billows, by the blasts of all manner of winds, but when the daughter of Coeus in the frenzied pangs of childbirth set foot upon it, then did four pillars, resting on adamant, rise perpendicular from the roots of the earth, and on their capitals sustain the rock. And there she gave birth to, and beheld, her blessed offspring. The neighboring islands, called the Cyclades, made it famous, since in its honor they would send at public expense sacred envoys, sacrifices, and choruses composed of virgins, and would celebrate great general festivals there. 10.5.5. Rheneia is a desert isle within four stadia from Delos, and there the Delians bury their dead; for it is unlawful to bury, or even burn, a corpse in Delos itself, and it is unlawful even to keep a dog there. In earlier times it was called Ortygia. 14.1.20. After the Samian strait, near Mt. Mycale, as one sails to Ephesus, one comes, on the right, to the seaboard of the Ephesians; and a part of this seaboard is held by the Samians. First on the seaboard is the Panionium, lying three stadia above the sea where the Pan-Ionian, a common festival of the Ionians, are held, and where sacrifices are performed in honor of the Heliconian Poseidon; and Prienians serve as priests at this sacrifice, but I have spoken of them in my account of the Peloponnesus. Then comes Neapolis, which in earlier times belonged to the Ephesians, but now belongs to the Samians, who gave in exchange for it Marathesium, the more distant for the nearer place. Then comes Pygela, a small town, with a sanctuary of Artemis Munychia, founded by Agamemnon and inhabited by a part of his troops; for it is said that some of his soldiers became afflicted with a disease of the buttocks and were called diseased-buttocks, and that, being afflicted with this disease, they stayed there, and that the place thus received this appropriate name. Then comes the harbor called Panormus, with a sanctuary of the Ephesian Artemis; and then the city Ephesus. On the same coast, slightly above the sea, is also Ortygia, which is a magnificent grove of all kinds of trees, of the cypress most of all. It is traversed by the Cenchrius River, where Leto is said to have bathed herself after her travail. For here is the mythical scene of the birth, and of the nurse Ortygia, and of the holy place where the birth took place, and of the olive tree near by, where the goddess is said first to have taken a rest after she was relieved from her travail. Above the grove lies Mt. Solmissus, where, it is said, the Curetes stationed themselves, and with the din of their arms frightened Hera out of her wits when she was jealously spying on Leto, and when they helped Leto to conceal from Hera the birth of her children. There are several temples in the place, some ancient and others built in later times; and in the ancient temples are many ancient wooden images [xoana], but in those of later times there are works of Scopas; for example, Leto holding a sceptre and Ortygia standing beside her, with a child in each arm. A general festival is held there annually; and by a certain custom the youths vie for honor, particularly in the splendor of their banquets there. At that time, also, a special college of the Curetes holds symposiums and performs certain mystic sacrifices. |
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| 46. Bacchylides, Odes, 3.85 Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 1 |
| 47. Papyri, Derveni Papyrus, 7.7-7.11, 9.2, 12.5, 18.5, 23.2, 23.5, 25.13, 26.8 Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 1, 3 |
| 49. Anon., Scholia To Clem. Al. Prot., 3.12 Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 266 |
| 53. Orphic Hymns., Hymni, 78, 86, 9 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 409 |
| 54. Orphic Hymns., Fragments, 1, 14, 243, 31, 35, 474, 477, 573, 653-655, 101 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
| 56. Heraclitus Lesbius, Fragments, None Tagged with subjects: •orphic, see bacchic, initiation, mystery cults, rites Found in books: de Jáuregui (2010), Orphism and Christianity in Late Antiquity, 3 |
