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35 results for "plato"

1. Hesiod, Theogony, 770-775 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 557

775. ἔνθα δὲ ναιετάει στυγερὴ θεὸς ἀθανάτοισι,

775. Appeared in the forefront, Briareus,

2. Hesiod, Works And Days, 168-173, 287-290, 292, 291 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

291. καὶ τρηχὺς τὸ πρῶτον· ἐπὴν δʼ εἰς ἄκρον ἵκηται,

291. Each other, being lawless, but the pact

3. Homer, Odyssey, 4.561-4.569 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •plato, conception of the afterlife Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 557

4.561. σοὶ δʼ οὐ θέσφατόν ἐστι, διοτρεφὲς ὦ Μενέλαε, 4.562. Ἄργει ἐν ἱπποβότῳ θανέειν καὶ πότμον ἐπισπεῖν, 4.563. ἀλλά σʼ ἐς Ἠλύσιον πεδίον καὶ πείρατα γαίης 4.564. ἀθάνατοι πέμψουσιν, ὅθι ξανθὸς Ῥαδάμανθυς, 4.565. τῇ περ ῥηίστη βιοτὴ πέλει ἀνθρώποισιν· 4.566. οὐ νιφετός, οὔτʼ ἂρ χειμὼν πολὺς οὔτε ποτʼ ὄμβρος, 4.567. ἀλλʼ αἰεὶ Ζεφύροιο λιγὺ πνείοντος ἀήτας 4.568. Ὠκεανὸς ἀνίησιν ἀναψύχειν ἀνθρώπους· 4.569. οὕνεκʼ ἔχεις Ἑλένην καί σφιν γαμβρὸς Διός ἐσσι.

4.565. there where life is easiest for men, no snow, and not much winter, and never rain, but always gusts of clearly blowing West WindOcean sends up to cool off men, because you have Helen and are a son-in-law of Zeus to them.

4. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 59-60, 58 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 557

5. Aeschylus, Eumenides, 273-274 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 557

274. ἔνερθε χθονός,

6. Aristophanes, Frogs, 146-151, 274-276, 353-371, 145 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 560

145. δεινότατα. μή μ' ἔκπληττε μηδὲ δειμάτου: 145. > εἶτα βόρβορον πολὺν

7. Plato, Meno, 77E-78B (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •aristotle, rejects plato's purely intellectual conception of human happiness Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

8. Plato, Laws, 718e, 733e, 863C, 904B-C, 904a, 904b-e, 711 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

9. Plato, Greater Hippias, 524a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •plato, conception of the afterlife Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 557

10. Plato, Gorgias, 468C (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •aristotle, rejects plato's purely intellectual conception of human happiness Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

11. Plato, Charmides, 167E (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •aristotle, rejects plato's purely intellectual conception of human happiness Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

12. Plato, Republic, 330d, 600b, 608d2, 608d3, 608d4, 608d5, 608d6, 614c, 614d, 615a, 615b, 619b, 619c, 619d, 505D-E (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

13. Plato, Phaedo, 108a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •plato, conception of the afterlife Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 562

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,

14. Aristotle, Soul, 3.9, 3.10, 407b20, 432a22-b7, 432b5, 432b6, 433a24, 433a25 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 43, 322

15. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1.13, 1102b (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

16. Aristotle, Politics, 7.15, 1334b22, 1334b23, 1334b24, 1334b25 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

17. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1.10, 1368b (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

18. Aristotle, Topics, 4.5, 126a12, 126a13 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 322

19. Josephus Flavius, Jewish War, 2.162-2.163 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •plato, conception of divinity ofthe soul Found in books: Rosen-Zvi, Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (2011). 214

2.162. Δύο δὲ τῶν προτέρων Φαρισαῖοι μὲν οἱ μετὰ ἀκριβείας δοκοῦντες ἐξηγεῖσθαι τὰ νόμιμα καὶ τὴν πρώτην ἀπάγοντες αἵρεσιν εἱμαρμένῃ τε καὶ θεῷ προσάπτουσι πάντα, 2.163. καὶ τὸ μὲν πράττειν τὰ δίκαια καὶ μὴ κατὰ τὸ πλεῖστον ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις κεῖσθαι, βοηθεῖν δὲ εἰς ἕκαστον καὶ τὴν εἱμαρμένην: ψυχήν τε πᾶσαν μὲν ἄφθαρτον, μεταβαίνειν δὲ εἰς ἕτερον σῶμα τὴν τῶν ἀγαθῶν μόνην, τὰς δὲ τῶν φαύλων ἀιδίῳ τιμωρίᾳ κολάζεσθαι.

2.162. 14. But then as to the two other orders at first mentioned: the Pharisees are those who are esteemed most skillful in the exact explication of their laws, and introduce the first sect. These ascribe all to fate [or providence], and to God, 2.163. and yet allow, that to act what is right, or the contrary, is principally in the power of men, although fate does cooperate in every action. They say that all souls are incorruptible, but that the souls of good men only are removed into other bodies,—but that the souls of bad men are subject to eternal punishment.

20. Seneca The Younger, On Anger, 2.4.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •aristotle, rejects plato's purely intellectual conception of human happiness Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 43

21. Longus, Daphnis And Chloe, 1.13.1-1.13.3, 1.13.5, 1.17.2-1.17.3, 4.18.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •beauty, of protagonists, plato conception of Found in books: Pinheiro Bierl and Beck, Anton Bierl? and Roger Beck?, Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel (2013) 60

1.13.2. 1.13.3. 1.13.5. 1.17.3. 4.18.1.

22. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.28.4-10.28.6 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •plato, conception of the afterlife Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 558

10.28.4. ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἀχέροντος τῇ ὄχθῃ μάλιστα θέας ἄξιον, ὅτι ὑπὸ τοῦ Χάρωνος τὴν ναῦν ἀνὴρ οὐ δίκαιος ἐς πατέρα ἀγχόμενός ἐστιν ὑπὸ τοῦ πατρός. περὶ πλείστου γὰρ δὴ ἐποιοῦντο οἱ πάλαι γονέας, ὥσπερ ἔστιν ἄλλοις τε τεκμήρασθαι καὶ ἐν Κατάνῃ τοῖς καλουμένοις Εὐσεβέσιν, οἵ, ἡνίκα ἐπέρρει τῇ Κατάνῃ πῦρ τὸ ἐκ τῆς Αἴτνης, χρυσὸν μὲν καὶ ἄργυρον ἐν οὐδενὸς μερίδι ἐποιήσαντο, οἱ δὲ ἔφευγον ὁ μὲν ἀράμενος μητέρα, ὁ δὲ αὐτῶν τὸν πατέρα· προϊόντας δὲ οὐ σὺν ῥᾳστώνῃ καταλαμβάνει σφᾶς τὸ πῦρ ἐπειγόμενον τῇ φλογί· καὶ —οὐ γὰρ κατετίθεντο οὐδʼ οὕτω τοὺς γονέας— διχῇ σχισθῆναι λέγεται τὸν ῥύακα, καὶ αὐτούς τε τοὺς νεανίσκους, σὺν δὲ αὐτοῖς τοὺς γονέας τὸ πῦρ οὐδέν σφισι λυμηνάμενον παρεξῆλθεν. 10.28.5. οὗτοι μὲν δὴ τιμὰς καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ ἔτι παρὰ Καταναίων ἔχουσιν, ἐν δὲ τῇ Πολυγνώτου γραφῇ πλησίον τοῦ ἀνδρός, ὃς τῷ πατρὶ ἐλυμαίνετο καὶ διʼ αὐτὸ ἐν Ἅιδου κακὰ ἀναπίμπλησι, τούτου πλησίον ἱερὰ σεσυληκὼς ἀνὴρ ὑπέσχε δίκην· γυνὴ δὲ ἡ κολάζουσα αὐτὸν φάρμακα ἄλλα τε καὶ ἐς αἰκίαν οἶδεν ἀνθρώπων. 10.28.6. περισσῶς δὲ ἄρα εὐσεβείᾳ θεῶν ἔτι προσέκειντο οἱ ἄνθρωποι, ὡς Ἀθηναῖοί τε δῆλα ἐποίησαν, ἡνίκα εἷλον Ὀλυμπίου Διὸς ἐν Συρακούσαις ἱερόν, οὔτε κινήσαντες τῶν ἀναθημάτων οὐδὲν τὸν ἱερέα τε τὸν Συρακούσιον φύλακα ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς ἐάσαντες· ἐδήλωσε δὲ καὶ ὁ Μῆδος Δᾶτις λόγοις τε οὓς εἶπε πρὸς Δηλίους καὶ τῷ ἔργῳ, ἡνίκα ἐν Φοινίσσῃ νηὶ ἄγαλμα εὑρὼν Ἀπόλλωνος ἀπέδωκεν αὖθις Ταναγραίοις ἐς Δήλιον. οὕτω μὲν τὸ θεῖον καὶ οἱ πάντες τότε ἦγον ἐν τιμῇ, καὶ ἐπὶ λόγῳ τοιούτῳ τὰ ἐς τὸν συλήσαντα ἱερὰ ἔγραψε Πολύγνωτος.

10.28.4. On the bank of Acheron there is a notable group under the boat of Charon, consisting of a man who had been undutiful to his father and is now being throttled by him. For the men of old held their parents in the greatest respect, as we may infer, among other instances, from those in Catana called the Pious, who, when the fire flowed down on Catana from Aetna, held of no account gold or silver, but when they fled took up, one his mother and another his father. As they struggled on, the fire rushed up and caught them in the flames. Not even so would they put down their parents, and it is said that the stream of lava divided itself in two, and the fire passed on, doing no hurt to either young men or their parents. These Catanians even at the present day receive honors from their fellow countrymen. 10.28.5. Near to the man in Polygnotus' picture who maltreated his father and for this drinks his cup of woe in Hades, is a man who paid the penalty for sacrilege. The woman who is punishing him is skilled in poisonous and other drugs. 10.28.6. So it appears that in those days men laid the greatest stress on piety to the gods, as the Athenians showed when they took the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus at Syracuse ; they moved none of the offerings, but left the Syracusan priest as their keeper. Datis the Persian too showed his piety in his address to the Delians, and in this act as well, when having found an image of Apollo in a Phoenician ship he restored it to the Tanagraeans at Delium . So at that time all men held the divine in reverence, and this is why Polygnotus has depicted the punishment of him who committed sacrilege.

23. Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation For The Gospel, 1.2.1-1.2.3 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •neoplatonist conception of life, reading of plato's laws Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

24. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.36, 8.77 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •plato, conception of the afterlife Found in books: Eidinow and Kindt, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (2015) 561

8.36. This is what Alexander says that he found in the Pythagorean memoirs. What follows is Aristotle's.But Pythagoras's great dignity not even Timon overlooked, who, although he digs at him in his Silli, speaks ofPythagoras, inclined to witching works and ways,Man-snarer, fond of noble periphrase.Xenophanes confirms the statement about his having been different people at different times in the elegiacs beginning:Now other thoughts, another path, I show.What he says of him is as follows:They say that, passing a belaboured whelp,He, full of pity, spake these words of dole:Stay, smite not ! 'Tis a friend, a human soul;I knew him straight whenas I heard him yelp ! 8.77. The sun he calls a vast collection of fire and larger than the moon; the moon, he says, is of the shape of a quoit, and the heaven itself crystalline. The soul, again, assumes all the various forms of animals and plants. At any rate he says:Before now I was born a boy and a maid, a bush and a bird, and a dumb fish leaping out of the sea.His poems On Nature and Purifications run to 5000 lines, his Discourse on Medicine to 600. of the tragedies we have spoken above.

25. Plotinus, Enneads, 1.2, 2.9.9, 3.2.13 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •neoplatonist conception of life, reading of plato's laws •demiurge, plato's conception of Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76; Marmodoro and Prince, Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (2015) 69

26. Porphyry, Fragments, 438 Smith, 324 Smith (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

27. Porphyry, Fragments, 324 Smith, 438 Smith (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

28. Porphyry, Life of Plotinus, 12, 9 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

9. Several women were greatly attached to him, amongst them Gemina, in whose house he lived, and her daughter, called Gemina, too, after the mother, and Amphiclea, the wife Ariston, son Iamblichus; all three devoted themselves assiduously to philosophy. Not a few men and women of position, on the approach of death, had left their boys and girls, with all their property, in his care, feeling that with Plotinus for guardian the children would be in holy hands. His house therefore was filled with lads lasses, amongst them Potamon, in whose education he took such interest as often to hear the boy recite verses of his own composition. He always found time for those that came to submit returns of the children's property, and he looked closely to the accuracy of the accounts: 'Until the young people take to philosophy,' he used to say, 'their fortunes and revenues must be kept intact for them.' And yet all this labour and thought over the worldly interests of so many people never interrupted, during waking hours, his intention towards the Supreme. He was gentle, and always at the call of those having the slightest acquaintance with him. After spending twenty-six years in Rome, acting, too, as arbiter in many differences, he had never made an enemy of any citizen.

29. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 12, 17 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

17. Going to Crete, Pythagoras besought initiation from the priests of Morgos, one of the Idaean Dactyli, by whom he was purified with the meteoritic thunder-stone. In the morning he lay stretched upon his face by the seaside; at night, he lay beside a river, crowned with a black lamb's woolen wreath. Descending into the Idaean cave, wrapped in black wool, he stayed there twenty-seven days, according to custom; he sacrificed to Zeus, and saw the throne which there is yearly made for him. On Zeus's tomb, Pythagoras inscribed an epigram, "Pythagoras to Zeus," which begins: "Zeus deceased here lies, whom men call Jove."

30. Epiphanius, Panarion, 16.2.1 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •plato, conception of divinity ofthe soul Found in books: Rosen-Zvi, Demonic Desires: Yetzer Hara and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity (2011). 214

31. Damaskios, De Principiis, 2.117-2.118 (5th cent. CE - 6th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •demiurge, plato's conception of Found in books: Marmodoro and Prince, Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (2015) 69

33. Epigraphy, Lex Coloniae Genetiuae Iuliae Vrsonensis, 32 Tagged with subjects: •neoplatonist conception of life, reading of plato's laws Found in books: Ando and Ruepke, Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006) 76

34. Stobaeus, Eclogues, 2.88.1(SVF 3.171), 2.86.17-18(SVF 3.169) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 43

35. Spinoza Benedict De, Ethica, part 2, prop.49, corollary Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Sorabji, Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation (2000) 43

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