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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: The Ghost in the Machine is heeeeeeerre ....
- Replies: 4
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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: Revisiting Philo's Therapeutae and their Context/Timeline
- Replies: 75
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In DVC, The Passion of Craving = Epithumia
'Craving/Desire' is unspecified by character, in the List of Maladies that the Therapeutae can cure. 2. ἡ δὲ προαίρεσις τῶν φιλοσόφων εὐθὺς ἐμφαίνεται διὰ τῆς προσρήσεως· θεραπευταὶ γὰρ καὶ θεραπευτρίδες ἐτύμως καλοῦνται, ἤτοι παρόσον ἰατρικὴν ἐπαγγέλλονται κρείσσονα τῆς κατὰ πόλεις — ἡ μὲν γὰρ σώμα...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
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Re: Perspective
Don't open your veins, and spare the hemlock. We live now. The document that survived was surely 'corrupted' in little ways by other hands. I believe that possibility is obvious for everything that came down as canon literature. That doesn't make it False to my mind, however. I remember all the talk...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:28 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation on "Admissible Concealed Indicators"
- Replies: 2
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Re: Timo S. Paananen's Dissertation
What ever happened to his co-author, here?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:23 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 643
Last Chore done for you, DCH
... I am not saying that the final editor HAS to be T J Alexander, but to me he was a good candidate for the dismissive POV about excesses in entertainment prevalent at Rome. Of course <aaarrrgghhh!!> This *could* be Philo's own words, but I am aware that Philo's works circulated under various name...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:11 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Teiresias
- Replies: 5
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Re: Philo and Aristophanes' Eros Myth
DVC 63 , but my trans. below: 63. σιωπῶ τὰ τῶν μύθων πλάσματα καὶ τοὺς δισωμάτους, οἳ κατ’ ἀρχὰς προσφύντες ἀλλήλοις ἑνωτικαῖς δυνάμεσιν αὖθις οἷα μέρη συνεληλυθότα διεζεύχθησαν, τῆς ἁρμονίας ὑφ’ ἧς συνείχοντο λυθείσης· εὐπαράγωγα γὰρ ταῦτα πάντα, δυνάμενα τῇ καινότητι τῆς ἐπινοίας τὰ ὦτα δελεάζειν...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:14 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Thoughts on Secret Mark by Smith and Landau
- Replies: 60
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Re: Thoughts on Regardie, Corrected
Thank you, Stephen. That is an entirely different interpretation, not one that I agree with, but meriting consideration. Edited as I see it: "Crowley was in England in the Thirties when Stephensen’s book was published. When was the article you have about the **Somebody Something** 'zwischen Sch...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:25 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Thoughts on Secret Mark by Smith and Landau
- Replies: 60
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Re: Thoughts on Scholem and Smith's "Mittel-Danj"
In a rant above emerges this question: "Where is the footnote confirming Smith's interest in Crowley?" Try Klawans footnote 49. Or, to restate, in a letter from Smith to Scholem dated November 26, 1945, Smith mentions Crowley--eight times. Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, correspondence ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
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Re: The Catamites of Flaccus?
De Vita Contemplativa says: 51. βαθυχαῖται γάρ εἰσιν ἢ μὴ κειρόμενοι τὸ παράπαν ἢ τὰς προμετωπιδίους αὐτὸ μόνον ἐξ ἄκρων εἰς ἐπανίσωσιν καὶ γραμμῆς κυκλοτεροῦς ἠκριβωμένον σχῆμα· χιτῶνάς τε ἀραχνοϋφεῖς καὶ ἐκλεύκους ἐπαναζωσάμενοι, τὰ μὲν ἐμπρόσθια κατωτέρω τῶν ὑπὸ γόνου, τὰ δὲ κατόπιν μικρὸν ὑπὸ το...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:20 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: The Catamites of Tiberius?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 643
Re: The Catamites of Tiberius?
Wiki is more authoritative than you here, unfortunately: Tiberius Julius Alexander (fl. 1st century) was an equestrian governor and general in the Roman Empire. Born into a wealthy Jewish family of Alexandria but abandoning or neglecting the Jewish religion, he rose to become the 2nd procurator of J...