| 1. Cicero, On Laws, 2.22 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •rejection of deities, ; of normal life Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 259 |
2. Cicero, On The Nature of The Gods, 3.47 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •rejection of deities Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 312 | 3.47. And if it is the nature of the gods to intervene in man's affairs, the Birth-Spirit also must be deemed divine, to whom it is our custom to offer sacrifice when we make the round of the shrines in the Territory of Ardea: she is named Natio from the word for being born (nasci), because she is believed to watch over married women in travail. If she is divine, so are all those abstractions that you mentioned, Honour, Faith, Intellect, Concord, and therefore also Hope, the Spirit of Money and all the possible creations of our own imagination. If this supposition is unlikely, so also is the former one, from which all these instances flow. Then, if the traditional gods whom we worship are really divine, what reason can you give why we should not include Isis and Osiris in the same category? And if we do so, why should we repudiate the gods of the barbarians? We shall therefore have to admit to the list of gods oxen and horses, ibises, hawks, asps, crocodiles, fishes, dogs, wolves, cats and many beasts besides. Or if we reject these, we shall also reject those others from whom their claim springs. |
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| 3. Catullus, Poems, 2018-12-01 00:00:00 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •rejection of deities, ; of normal life Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 172 |
| 4. Josephus Flavius, Jewish Antiquities, 65-76, 78-80, 77 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 312 |
| 5. Plutarch, On The Face Which Appears In The Orb of The Moon, 3.11.40-3.11.46 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rejection of deities Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 312 |
6. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 8.28, 11.11 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rejection of deities, ; of normal life •rejection of deities Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 259, 312 | 11.11. By and by, after the goddess, there followed gods on foot. There was Anubis, the messenger of the gods infernal and celestial, with his face sometimes black, sometimes faire, lifting up the head of a dog and bearing in his left hand his verge, and in his right hand the branches of a palm tree. After whom followed a cow with an upright gait, representing the figure of the great goddess. He who guided her marched on with much gravity. Another carried the secrets of their religion closed in a coffer. There was one who bore on his stomach a figure of his god, not formed like any beast, bird, savage thing or humane shape, but made by a new invention. This signified that such a religion could not be discovered or revealed to any person. There was a vessel wrought with a round bottom, having on the one side pictures figured in the manner of the Egyptians, and on the other side was an ear on which stood the serpent Aspis, holding out his scaly neck. |
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| 7. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 6.4.35 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rejection of deities Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 312 |
| 8. Lucian, The Syrian Goddess, 27 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •rejection of deities, ; of normal life Found in books: Alvar Ezquerra (2008) 259 |
