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23 results for "orphic"

1. Septuagint, Isaiah, 7.94, 13.111 (8th cent. BCE - 6th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses •orphic triad of goddnesses, tradition of judgement Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118, 207

2. Homer, Odyssey, 22.481 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, and world-egg Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 261

3. Pindar, Fragments, 129 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, idea of sun at night Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 304

4. Plautus, Persa, 226 (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, tradition of judgement Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 207

5. Dead Sea Scrolls, Pssjos 4Q378, None (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 304

6. Horace, Odes, 3.22.4 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118

7. Ovid, Ars Amatoria, 2.329 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, and world-egg Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 261

2.329. Et veniat, quae lustret anus lectumque locumque,

8. Catullus, Poems, 12.1, 34.9, 47.1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, tradition of judgement •orphic triad of goddnesses Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118, 207

9. Ovid, Fasti, 1.141 (1st cent. BCE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118

1.141. ora vides Hecates in tres vertentia partes,

1.141. You see Hecate’s faces turned in three directions,

10. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 2.55.142 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, tradition of judgement Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 207

11. Tosefta, Nedarim, 12 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, idea of sun at night Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 304

12. Statius, Thebais, 4.526 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118

13. Statius, Siluae, 2.1.147 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118

14. Juvenal, Satires, 2.157, 6.518 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, and world-egg Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 261

15. Philostratus The Athenian, Life of Apollonius, 4.18 (2nd cent. CE - missingth cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, mysteries Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 289

4.18. ἦν μὲν δὴ ̓Επιδαυρίων ἡμέρα. τὰ δὲ ̓Επιδαύρια μετὰ πρόρρησίν τε καὶ ἱερεῖα δεῦρο μυεῖν ̓Αθηναίοις πάτριον ἐπὶ θυσίᾳ δευτέρᾳ, τουτὶ δὲ ἐνόμισαν ̓Ασκληπιοῦ ἕνεκα, ὅτι δὴ ἐμύησαν αὐτὸν ἥκοντα ̓Επιδαυρόθεν ὀψὲ μυστηρίων. ἀμελήσαντες δὲ οἱ πολλοὶ τοῦ μυεῖσθαι περὶ τὸν ̓Απολλώνιον εἶχον καὶ τοῦτ' ἐσπούδαζον μᾶλλον ἢ τὸ ἀπελθεῖν τετελεσμένοι, ὁ δὲ ξυνέσεσθαι μὲν αὐτοῖς αὖθις ἔλεγεν, ἐκέλευσε δὲ πρὸς τοῖς ἱεροῖς τότε γίγνεσθαι, καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸς μυεῖσθαι. ὁ δὲ ἱεροφάντης οὐκ ἐβούλετο παρέχειν τὰ ἱερά, μὴ γὰρ ἄν ποτε μυῆσαι γόητα, μηδὲ τὴν ̓Ελευσῖνα ἀνοῖξαι ἀνθρώπῳ μὴ καθαρῷ τὰ δαιμόνια. ὁ δὲ ̓Απολλώνιος οὐδὲν ὑπὸ τούτων ἥττων αὑτοῦ γενόμενος “οὔπω” ἔφη “τὸ μέγιστον, ὧν ἐγὼ ἐγκληθείην ἄν, εἴρηκας, ὅτι περὶ τῆς τελετῆς πλείω ἢ σὺ γιγνώσκων ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς παρὰ σοφώτερον ἐμαυτοῦ μυησόμενος ἦλθον.” ἐπαινεσάντων δὲ τῶν παρόντων, ὡς ἐρρωμένως καὶ παραπλησίως αὑτῷ ἀπεκρίνατο, ὁ μὲν ἱεροφάντης, ἐπειδὴ ἐξείργων αὐτὸν οὐ φίλα τοῖς πολλοῖς ἐδόκει πράττειν, μετέβαλε τοῦ τόνου καὶ “μυοῦ”, ἔφη “σοφὸς γάρ τις ἥκειν ἔοικας”, ὁ δὲ ̓Απολλώνιος “μυήσομαι” ἔφη “αὖθις, μυήσει δέ με ὁ δεῖνα” προγνώσει χρώμενος ἐς τὸν μετ' ἐκεῖνον ἱεροφάντην, ὃς μετὰ τέτταρα ἔτη τοῦ ἱεροῦ προὔστη.

4.18. It was then the day of the Epidaurian festival, at which it is still customary for the Athenians to hold the initiation at a second sacrifice after both proclamation and victims have been offered; and this custom was instituted in honor of Asclepius, because they still initiated him when on one occasion he arrived from Epidaurus too late for the mysteries. Now most people neglected the initiation and hung around Apollonius, and thought more of doing that than of being perfected in their religion before they went home; but Apollonius said that he would join them later on, and urged them to attend at once to the rites of the religion, for that he himself would be initiated. But the hierophant was not disposed to admit him to the rites, for he said that he would never initiate a wizard and charlatan, nor open the Eleusinian rite to a man who dabbled in impure rites. Thereupon Apollonius, fully equal to the occasion, said: You have not yet mentioned the chief of my offense, which is that knowing, as I do, more about the initiatory rite than you do yourself, I have nevertheless come for initiation to you, as if you were wiser than I am. The bystanders applauded these words, and deemed that he had answered with vigor and like himself; and thereupon the hierophant, since he saw that his exclusion of Apollonius was not by any means popular with the crowd, changed his tone and said: Be thou initiated, for thou seemest to be some wise man who has come here. But Apollonius replied: I will be initiated at another time, and it is so and so, mentioning a name, who will initiate me. Herein he showed his gift of prevision, for he glanced at the hierophant who succeeded the one he addressed, and presided over the sanctuary four years later.

16. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.28, 9.36 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, mysteries •orphic triad of goddnesses, tradition of judgement Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 207, 296

17. Lucian, Dialogues of The Dead, 1.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, and world-egg Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 261

18. Servius, Commentary On The Aeneid, 6.226 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, and world-egg Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 261

19. Epigraphy, Cil, 3.1095 Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118

20. Anon., Totenbuch, 15 Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, idea of sun at night Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 304

21. Vergil, Aeneis, 2.693, 4.511, 4.698, 6.138, 6.226, 6.641, 9.631 Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, tradition of judgement •orphic triad of goddnesses •orphic triad of goddnesses, and world-egg •orphic triad of goddnesses, idea of sun at night Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 118, 207, 261, 304

2.693. Like panic-stricken doves in some dark storm, 4.511. “No goddess gave thee birth. No Dardanus 4.698. nor feared she worse than when Sichaeus died, 6.138. And thrust beneath her heart a quickening spur. 6.226. In happier days, he oft at Hector's side 6.641. His face and bloody hands, his wounded head 9.631. Messapus' glittering helm, his baldric fair,

22. Dead Sea Scrolls, 4Q196, 2.481 Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, mysteries Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 296

23. Anon., Sifra Qedoshim, 4.193, 4.523 Tagged with subjects: •orphic triad of goddnesses, mysteries •orphic triad of goddnesses, and world-egg Found in books: Griffiths (1975), The Isis-Book (Metamorphoses, Book XI), 261, 289

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