1. Homer, Iliad, 3.278-3.279, 5.539, 18.535, 19.259-19.260 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •transmigration, in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 86, 90 | 3.278. / Then in their midst Agamemnon lifted up his hands and prayed aloud:Father Zeus, that rulest from Ida, most glorious, most great, and thou Sun, that beholdest all things and hearest all things, and ye rivers and thou earth, and ye that in the world below take vengeance on men that are done with life, whosoever hath sworn a false oath; 3.279. / Then in their midst Agamemnon lifted up his hands and prayed aloud:Father Zeus, that rulest from Ida, most glorious, most great, and thou Sun, that beholdest all things and hearest all things, and ye rivers and thou earth, and ye that in the world below take vengeance on men that are done with life, whosoever hath sworn a false oath; 5.539. / son of Pergasus, whom the Trojans honoured even as the sons of Priam, for that he was swift to fight amid the foremost. Him did lord Agamemnon smite with his spear upon the shield, and this stayed not the spear, but clean through it passed the bronze, and into the lower belly he drave it through the belt; 18.535. / And amid them Strife and Tumult joined in the fray, and deadly Fate, grasping one man alive, fresh-wounded, another without a wound, and another she dragged dead through the mellay by the feet; and the raiment that she had about her shoulders was red with the blood of men. Even as living mortals joined they in the fray and fought; 19.259. / made prayer to Zeus; and all the Argives sat thereby in silence, hearkening as was meet unto the king. And he spake in prayer, with a look up to the wide heaven:Be Zeus my witness first, highest and best of gods, and Earth and Sun, and the Erinyes, that under earth 19.260. / take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath, that never laid I hand upon the girl Briseis either by way of a lover's embrace or anywise else, but she ever abode untouched in my huts. And if aught of this oath be false, may the gods give me woes |
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| 2. Pindar, Olympian Odes, 7.24-7.26 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •transmigration, in empedocles •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 87; Wolfsdorf (2020) 61 |
| 3. Pindar, Pythian Odes, 2 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •transmigration, in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 87 |
4. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1021-1039, 1041-1076, 1040 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 222| 1040. τάδʼ ἐν χρόνῳ μοι πάντας Ἀργείους λέγω· | 1040. I go forth a wanderer, estranged from this land, leaving this repute behind, in life or death. Chorus |
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| 5. Aeschylus, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 88 |
| 6. Aeschylus, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 88 |
| 7. Aeschylus, Fragments, None (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 88 |
| 8. Pindar, Fragments, 3.13 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •transmigration, in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 87 |
| 9. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 61 |
10. Plato, Meno, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 61| 81a. ΜΕΝ. οὐκοῦν καλῶς σοι δοκεῖ λέγεσθαι ὁ λόγος οὗτος, ὦ Σώκρατες; ΣΩ. οὐκ ἔμοιγε. ΜΕΝ. ἔχεις λέγειν ὅπῃ; ΣΩ. ἔγωγε· ἀκήκοα γὰρ ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν σοφῶν περὶ τὰ θεῖα πράγματα— ΜΕΝ. τίνα λόγον λεγόντων; ΣΩ. ἀληθῆ, ἔμοιγε δοκεῖν, καὶ καλόν. ΜΕΝ. τίνα τοῦτον, καὶ τίνες οἱ λέγοντες; ΣΩ. οἱ μὲν λέγοντές εἰσι τῶν ἱερέων τε καὶ τῶν ἱερειῶν ὅσοις μεμέληκε περὶ ὧν μεταχειρίζονται λόγον οἵοις τʼ εἶναι | 81a. Men. Now does it seem to you to be a good argument, Socrates? Soc. It does not. Men. Can you explain how not? Soc. I can; for I have heard from wise men and women who told of things divine that— Men. What was it they said ? Soc. Something true, as I thought, and admirable. Men. What was it? And who were the speakers? Soc. They were certain priests and priestesses who have studied so as to be able to give a reasoned account of their ministry; and Pindar also |
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| 11. Euripides, Orestes, 1332-1343, 1625-1665, 1668-1669, 282-298, 380-425, 427-467, 426 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 222 |
| 12. Plato, Republic, 364, 366, 365 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 79, 83 |
| 13. Euripides, Antiope (Fragmenta Antiopes ), None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60 |
| 14. Empedocles, Fragments, None (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 61, 63 |
| 15. Aristotle, Rhetoric, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 63 |
| 16. Aristotle, Physics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 63 |
| 17. Aristotle, Metaphysics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 63 |
| 18. Aristotle, Generation And Corruption, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 64 |
| 19. Aeschylus of Alexandria, Fragments, None (3rd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 88 |
20. Plutarch, On The Eating of Flesh I, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •transmigration, in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 84 | 996b. is no worse than he who slaughters it outright. But it seems that we are more observant of acts contrary to convention than of those that are contrary to nature. In that place, then, Imade my remarks in a popular vein. Istill hesitate, however, to attempt a discussion of the principle underlying my opinion, great as it is, and mysterious and incredible, as Plato says, with merely clever men of mortal opinions, just as a steersman hesitates to shift his course in the midst of a storm, or a playwright to raise his god from the machine in the midst of a play. Yet perhaps it is not unsuitable to set the pitch and announce the theme by quoting some verses of Empedocles. ... By these lines he means, though he does not say so directly, that human souls are imprisoned in mortal bodies as a punishment for murder, the eating of animal flesh, and cannibalism. |
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| 21. Plutarch, On The Face Which Appears In The Orb of The Moon, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 64 |
22. Plutarch, On Exilio, None (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •transmigration, in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 83, 84, 88 | 607c. but by coming to Thebes expatriated his 'descendant,' Euhius Dionysus, Rouser of women, Him that is adored in frenzy"? Now as to the matters at which Aeschylus hinted darkly when he said And pure Apollo, god exiled from heaven "let my lips" in the words of Herodotus "be sealed"; Empedocles, however, when beginning the presentation of his philosophy, says by way of prelude: Alaw there is, an oracle of Doom, of old enacted by the assembled gods, That if a Daemon â such as live for agesâ Defile himself with foul and sinful murder, He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam Far from the Blest: such is the path Itread, |
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| 23. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 9.126-9.129 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 62 |
| 24. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 4.155 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60 |
25. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.34, 8.77 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles •transmigration, in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 79; Wolfsdorf (2020) 60, 61 | 8.34. According to Aristotle in his work On the Pythagoreans, Pythagoras counselled abstinence from beans either because they are like the genitals, or because they are like the gates of Hades . . . as being alone unjointed, or because they are injurious, or because they are like the form of the universe, or because they belong to oligarchy, since they are used in election by lot. He bade his disciples not to pick up fallen crumbs, either in order to accustom them not to eat immoderately, or because connected with a person's death; nay, even, according to Aristophanes, crumbs belong to the heroes, for in his Heroes he says:Nor taste ye of what falls beneath the board !Another of his precepts was not to eat white cocks, as being sacred to the Month and wearing suppliant garb – now supplication ranked with things good – sacred to the Month because they announce the time of day; and again white represents the nature of the good, black the nature of evil. Not to touch such fish as were sacred; for it is not right that gods and men should be allotted the same things, any more than free men and slaves. 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. |
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26. Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 19 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 60, 61 | 19. Through this he achieved great reputation, he drew great audiences from the city, not only of men, but also of women, among whom was a specially illustrious person named Theano. He also drew audiences from among the neighboring barbarians, among whom were magnates and kings. What he told his audiences cannot be said with certainty, for he enjoined silence upon his hearers. But the following is a matter of general information. He taught that the soul was immortal and that after death it transmigrated into other animated bodies. After certain specified periods, the same events occur again; that nothing was entirely new; that all animated beings were kin, and should be considered as belonging to one great family. Pythagoras was the first one to introduce these teachings into Greece. SPAN |
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| 27. Empedocles, Papyrus Strasbourg Graecus, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 62 |
| 29. Julius Africanus, Kestoi, 79 Tagged with subjects: •transmigration, in empedocles Found in books: Petrovic and Petrovic (2016) 86 |
| 30. Dichaearchus, Fr., None Tagged with subjects: •metempsychosis (transmigration of soul, reincarnation), in empedocles Found in books: Wolfsdorf (2020) 61 |
