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... Ephesus received a second "Neokoros" title (and temple) from Hadrian after an intervention by the priest of the imperial cult (and probable sophist) Ti. Claudius Piso Diophantes ( 1K Ephesos 428) Marietta Horster, "Cult," chapter 38 in The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophi...

The city of Cyzicus, in Mysia, northwest Anatolia, on the shores of the Sea of Marmara, had a Temple of Hadrian. In 124,Cyzicus was granted the role of neokoros, temple warden of the imperial cult. The people of Cyzicus, declared Hadrian the 13th Olympian god. https://x.com/carolemadge/status/164440...

Stephen L. Young (2024) '“Make Rome Great Again” … The Ancient Romo-Nationalism of Biblical Writers,' Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 78 (4): 321-34. from https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00209643241270135 (full text available) How Narratives about the Decline of Society...

Dionysus, Bacchus and Liber [an olde Roman god of viticulture and wine, male fertility and freedom] became virtually interchangeable from the late Republican era (133 BCE and onward), and their mystery cults persisted well into the Principate of the Roman Imperial era. Liber's associations with wine...

Liber [an olde Roman god of viticulture and wine, male fertility and freedom] and Dionysus became virtually interchangeable from the late Republican era (133 BCE and onward), and their mystery cults persisted well into the Principate of Roman Imperial era. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchanalia ...

Cybele Phrygian : Matar Kubileya/Kubeleya "Kubileya/Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; Lydian Kuvava ; Greek : Κυβέλη Kybele , Κυβήβη Kybebe , Κύβελις Kybelis Cybele was/is an Anatolian mother goddess ... She is Phrygia's only known goddess, and was probably its nation...

https://www.worldhistory.org/Roman_Imperial_Cult/ In the 1st century BCE, several Germanic tribes invaded Gaul and northern Italy; the king of Pontus, Mithridates VI (r. 120-63 BCE), conquered the Roman province of Asia; and the allied cities in Italy rebelled over their citizen status in the Social...

rgprice wrote: ↑Thu Nov 14, 2024 11:16 am
Yeah, knowing what it actually says is of course critical here. So what is in question is : Λέγει δὲ οὕτως

This appears to be something like "He says this".

Therefore/but he says thus / he says in this manner

Chapter 11, the section that has all or some "Marcosian gnosis" allegedly begins with the statement: Just as in astronomy we have Abraham as an example (ὑπόδειγμα), so also in arithmetic we have the same Abraham. For, upon hearing that Lot had been taken captive, he numbered his own train...

The following is modified from W. Martin Bloomer, 'Latinitas,' chapter 5 in The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic . Development of Latin prose and verse styles was in great part spurred on by Roman ambitions to have a literary language that emulated Attic Greek, ambitions that largely began wi...