1. Hesiod, Theogony, 191-192 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 264 | 192. And in an ambush set her child apart |
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2. Herodotus, Histories, 1.104-1.106 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •venus planet Found in books: Bernabe et al. (2013), Redefining Dionysos, 264 | 1.104. It is a thirty days' journey for an unencumbered man from the Maeetian lake to the river Phasis and the land of the Colchi; from the Colchi it is an easy matter to cross into Media: there is only one nation between, the Saspires; to pass these is to be in Media. ,Nevertheless, it was not by this way that the Scythians entered; they turned aside and came by the upper and much longer way, keeping the Caucasian mountains on their right. There, the Medes met the Scythians, who defeated them in battle, deprived them of their rule, and made themselves masters of all Asia . 1.105. From there they marched against Egypt : and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine , Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and prayers to come no further. ,So they turned back, and when they came on their way to the city of Ascalon in Syria , most of the Scythians passed by and did no harm, but a few remained behind and plundered the temple of Heavenly Aphrodite. ,This temple, I discover from making inquiry, is the oldest of all the temples of the goddess, for the temple in Cyprus was founded from it, as the Cyprians themselves say; and the temple on Cythera was founded by Phoenicians from this same land of Syria . ,But the Scythians who pillaged the temple, and all their descendants after them, were afflicted by the goddess with the “female” sickness: and so the Scythians say that they are afflicted as a consequence of this and also that those who visit Scythian territory see among them the condition of those whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”. 1.106. The Scythians, then, ruled Asia for twenty-eight years: and the whole land was ruined because of their violence and their pride, for, besides exacting from each the tribute which was assessed, they rode about the land carrying off everyone's possessions. ,Most of them were entertained and made drunk and then slain by Cyaxares and the Medes: so thus the Medes took back their empire and all that they had formerly possessed; and they took Ninus (how, I will describe in a later part of my history), and brought all Assyria except the province of Babylon under their rule. |
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3. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.629, 2.1117, 5.1362 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •venus (planet) Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 253| 1.629. cogere consuesset rerum natura creatrix, 2.1117. omnia perduxit rerum natura creatrix; 5.1362. ipsa fuit rerum primum natura creatrix, | |
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| 4. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 11.5.1-11.5.2 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •venus (planet) Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 253 |
| 5. Papyri, Papyri Graecae Magicae, 4.2891-4.2941 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •venus (planet) Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 253 |
| 7. Ostraka, O.Hor, 10 Tagged with subjects: •venus (planet) Found in books: Bortolani et al. (2019), William Furley, Svenja Nagel, and Joachim Friedrich Quack, Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices: Graeco-Egyptian Handbooks and Related Traditions, 253 |
