Chapter V (continued 1)
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321 Pseudo-Plutarch, De placitis philosoph. i, 7. ↑
322 Eusebius, Præp. Evang. bk. ii, ch. 2; Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, ch. 23. ↑
323 P. 80. ↑
324 It may be noted that Diogenes of Babylon, a follower of Chrysippos, applied the principle to Greek mythology. Cicero, De nat. Deor. i, 15. ↑
325 Above, p. 80, note 4. ↑
326 See Grote, i, 371–74 and notes. ↑
327 Palaiphatos, De Incredibilibus: De Actæone, De Geryone, De Cerbero, De Amazonibus, etc. ↑
328 E. R. Bevan (art. “The Deification of Kings in the Greek Cities” in Eng. Histor. Rev. Oct. 1901, p. 631) argues that the practice was not primarily eastern, but Greek. See, however, Herodotos, vii, 136; Arrian, Anabas. Alexand. iv, 11; Q. Curtius, viii, 5–8; and Plutarch, Artaxerxes, ch. 22, as to the normal attitude of the Greeks, even as late as Alexander. ↑
329 See Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, chs. 22, 23, for the later Hellenistic tone on the subject of apotheosis apart from the official practice of the empire. ↑
330 Gibbon, ch. xl. Bohn ed. iv, 353, and note. ↑
331 Mahaffy, Greek Life, pp. 133–35; Diog. Laërt. bk. ii, ch. v, 5 (§ 38). ↑
332 Wallace, Epicureanism (pp. 245–46), citing Suidas, s.v. Epicurus. ↑
333 Diogenes Laërtius, bk. vii, ch. i, 28 (§ 33); cp. Origen, Against Celsus, bk. i, ch. 5; Clemens Alex, Stromata, bk. v, ch. ii. ↑
334 Mahaffy, as cited, p. 135, n.; Athenæus, ix, 63 (p. 400). ↑
335 (297 B.C.) Burckhardt, Griechische Culturgeschichte, i, 213; Pausanias, i, 29. ↑
336 Cp. G. Guizot, Ménandre, 1855, pp. 324–27, and App. ↑
337 Cp. Guizot, pp. 327–31, and the fragments cited by Justin Martyr, De Monarchia, ch. 5. ↑
338 Whittaker, as cited, p. 85. ↑
339 Martha, as cited, p. 78. ↑
340 Diog. Laërt. bk. iv, ch. ix, 8 (§ 65). ↑
341 Diog. Laërt. bk. iv, ch. ix, 4, 5 (§ 63); Noumenios in Euseb. Præp. Evang. xiv, 8; Cicero, De Oratore, ii, 38; Lucilius, cited by Lactantius, Div. Inst. ↑
342 Cicero, Academics, ii, 34. ↑
343 Berry, Short Hist. of Astron. pp. 34–62; Narrien, Histor. Account, as cited, ch. xi; L. U. K. Hist. of Astron. ch. vi. It is noteworthy that Hipparchos, like so many of his predecessors, had some of his ideas from Babylonia. Strabo, proœm., § 9. ↑
344 Ptolemy normally lumps unbelief in religion with all the vices of character. Cp. the Tetrabiblos, iii, 18 (paraphrase of Proclus). ↑
345Hist. Nat. ii, 26. ↑
346 Lucian’s dialogue Philopseudes gives a view of the superstitions of average Greeks in the second century of our era. Cp. Mr. Williams’s note to the first Dialogue of the Dead, in his tr. p. 87. ↑
347 See M. Foucart’s treatise, Des assoc. relig. chez les Grecs, 1873, 2e ptie. ↑
348 On the early tendency to orthodox conformity among the unbelieving Alexandrian scholars, see Mahaffy, Greek Life and Thought, pp. 260–61. ↑
349 Frag. cited by Wallace, p. 258. ↑
350 Rev. Baden Powell, Hist. of Nat. Philos. 1834, p. 79. ↑
351De Oratore, iii, 17; De Finibus, ii, 12, 13. ↑
352 See Saisset, Le Scepticisme, 1865, pp. 22–27, for a careful discussion of dates. ↑
353 His own claim was to be of the “methodical” school. Hypotyp. i, 34. ↑
354 See his doctrine expounded by Owen, Evenings with the Skeptics, i, 332 sq. ↑
355 Cp. Owen, p. 349. ↑
356 These seem to be derived from Carneades. Cp. Ueberweg, i, 217. ↑
357 “The general character of the Greek Skeptics from Sokrates to Sextos is quite unexceptionable” (Owen, Evenings, i, 352). ↑
358 Polybius, bk. vi, ch. lvi. Cp. bk. xvi, Frag. 5 (12), where he speaks impatiently of the miracle-stories told of certain cults, and, repeating his opinion that some such stories are useful for preserving piety among the people, protests that they should be kept within bounds. ↑
359 Bk. i, ch. ii, § 8. Plutarch (Isis and Osiris, ch. 8) puts the more decent principle that all the apparent absurdities have good occult reasons. ↑
360 Bk. ix, ch. iii, § 12. Cp. bk. x, ch. iii, § 23. The hand of an interpolator frequently appears in Strabo (e.g., bk. ix, ch. ii, § 40; ch. iii, § 5); and the passage cited in bk. i is more in the style of the former than of the latter. ↑