Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragment in Diels, Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker |
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... ORPHEUS ORPHEUS lived probably in Thrace , in pre - Homeric times . Aristotle believed that he never existed ; but to other ancient writers he was a real person , though living in remote antiquity . Nothing is known of any ancient ...
... ORPHEUS ORPHEUS lived probably in Thrace , in pre - Homeric times . Aristotle believed that he never existed ; but to other ancient writers he was a real person , though living in remote antiquity . Nothing is known of any ancient ...
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... Orpheus says ) have come to the time of enjoyment . 6. ( ib . 715E : as the ancient saying goes ) God holds the be- ginning and end , and the middle of all existing things . 6a . ( ib . 829D : Nobody is to sing a song not approved by ...
... Orpheus says ) have come to the time of enjoyment . 6. ( ib . 715E : as the ancient saying goes ) God holds the be- ginning and end , and the middle of all existing things . 6a . ( ib . 829D : Nobody is to sing a song not approved by ...
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... Orpheus to be revered by Greeks and barbarians , being deeply concerned with rites , purifications and oracles . The goddess Deme- ter ... whom Orpheus gave as the sister of Zeus , others as the mother . There is no need to recall these ...
... Orpheus to be revered by Greeks and barbarians , being deeply concerned with rites , purifications and oracles . The goddess Deme- ter ... whom Orpheus gave as the sister of Zeus , others as the mother . There is no need to recall these ...
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ABDÊRA Aether Anaxagoras animals Antiphon Aphrodite ARISTOTLE ATHENS attributed B.C. He wrote barbarians beauty become blood-vessels body called cause CHIOS Cleinias created creatures Critias Cronos Damon daughter death Demeter Democritus Diels Diels-Kranz divine drink earth elements Empedocles Epimenides everlasting everything existing things Fate fifth century B.C. Fire forms fourth century B.C. fragments friends give gods Gorgias Greece Greeks Hades harmony Hate Heaven Hecataeus Heracleitus Heracles Hesiod Homer honour immortal infinite intelligence justice Leucippus limbs live Logos Love mankind means MILÊTUS mind mixed moon mortals Musaeus nature night Non-Limited Not-Being Ocean one's Oration Orpheus Orphic pain Philolaus PLATO pleasure poem prime Prodicus Protagoras Pythagoras Pythagorean rain round separated soul Spartan speech Spurious Stobaeus TARENTUM thought Thrasymachus Title treatise Truth universe virtue whole wind wisdom wise wish word writings survive wrong Xenophanes XENOPHILUS Zeus