| 1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1.3, 2.1-2.31, 3.10, 4.2-4.16, 5.3-5.5, 5.15-5.21, 5.23 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •wellmann, m. Found in books: Cornelli, In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category (2013) 378 |
| 2. Plato, Phaedo, 108c6 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •wellmann, m. Found in books: Cornelli, In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category (2013) 376 |
| 3. Plato, Timaeus, 58d2, 58d3, 58d4, 58d1 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Cornelli, In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category (2013) 376 |
| 4. Sextus, Against The Mathematicians, 10.258-10.284 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •wellmann, m. Found in books: Cornelli, In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category (2013) 377 |
| 5. Aelius Aristides, Sacred Tales, 1.3, 2.1-2.31, 3.10, 4.2-4.16, 5.3-5.5, 5.15-5.21, 5.23 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •wellmann, m. Found in books: Cornelli, In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category (2013) 378 |
6. Aelian, Varia Historia, 3.18, 9.16 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •wellmann, m., Found in books: Del Lucchese, Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (2019) 200 | 3.18. Theopompus relates a discourse between Midas the Phrygian and Silenus. This Silenus was son of a Nymph, inferior by nature to the Gods only, superior to men and Death. Amongst other things, Silenus told Midas that Europe, Asia and Africa were Islands surrounded by the Ocean: That there was but one Continent only, which was beyond this world, and that as to magnitude it was infinite: That in it were bred, besides other very great creatures, men twice as big as those here, and they lived double our age: That many great cities are there, and peculiar manners of life; and that they have laws wholly different from those amongst us: That there are two cities far greater then the rest, nothing to like each other; one named Machimus, warlike, the other Eusebes, Pious: That the Pious people live in peace, abounding in wealth, and reap the fruits of the Earth without ploughs or oxen, having no need of tillage or sowing. They live, as he said, free from sickness, and die laughing, and with great pleasure: They are so exactly just, that the Gods many times vouchsafe to converse with them. The inhabitants of the city Machimus are very warlike, continually armed and fighting: They subdue their neighbours, and this one city predominates over many. The inhabitants are not fewer then two hundred myriads: they die sometimes of sickness, but this happens very rarely, for most commonly they are killed in the wars by stones or wood, for they are invulnerable by steel. They have vast plenty of gold and silver, insomuch that gold is of less value with them then iron with us. He said that they once designed a voyage to these our Islands, and sailed upon the Ocean, being in number a thousand myriads of men, till they came to the Hyperboreans; but understanding that they were the happiest men amongst us, they contemned us as persons that led a mean inglorious life, and therefore thought it not worth their going farther. He added what is yet more wonderful, that there are men living amongst them called Meropes, who inhabit many great cities; and that at the farthest end of their country there is a place named Anostus, (from whence there is no return) which resembles a Gulf; it is neither very light nor very dark, the air being dusky intermingled with a kind of red: That there are two rivers in this place, one of pleasure, the other of grief; and that along each river grow trees of the bigness of a plane-tree. Those which grow up by the river of grief bear fruit of this nature; If any one eat of them, he shall spend all the rest of his life in tears and grief, and so die. The other trees which grow by the river of pleasure produce fruit of a contrary nature, for who tasts thereof shall be eased from all his former desires: If he loved any thing, he shall quite forget it; and in a short time shall become younger, and live over again his former years: he shall cast off old age, and return to the prime of his strength, becoming first a young man, then a child, lastly, an infant, and so die. This, if any man think the Chian worthy credit, he may believe. To me he appears an egregious Romancer as well in this as other things. |
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7. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 8.28, 8.33, 8.36, 8.31, 8.30, 8.25, 8.29, 8.26, 8.9, 8.10, 8.6, 8.27, 8.32, 8.25a, 25b, 28b, 27b (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Cornelli, In Search of Pythagoreanism: Pythagoreanism as an Historiographical Category (2013) 375, 377, 378 | 8.28. All things live which partake of heat – this is why plants are living things – but all have not soul, which is a detached part of aether, partly the hot and partly the cold, for it partakes of cold aether too. Soul is distinct from life; it is immortal, since that from which it is detached is immortal. Living creatures are reproduced from one another by germination; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation from earth. The germ is a clot of brain containing hot vapour within it; and this, when brought to the womb, throws out, from the brain, ichor, fluid and blood, whence are formed flesh, sinews, bones, hairs, and the whole of the body, while soul and sense come from the vapour within. |
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| 8. Aristotle, De Pythagoreis, fr.195 rose = fr.5 ross, 157 gigon Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan |
