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- χ233Χειμερινὸς καιρόςwintry season, wintry time… Hesiod, Theogony 148 (citing Chrysippus), on the three sons of Earth and Heaven: Kottos, Briareos and Gyges. Each is equated with a season of the year: Kottos with the angry heat of summer, Briareos …
- δ1093Δίκηςof justice… the idea that justice is rewarded by the fertility of earth see Homer, Odyssey 19.109ff.; further parallels are Aeschylus, Supplices 627-29, Eumenides 937-87; Sophocles, Oedipus Rex 269-71. The notion is also to be seen …
- ε2494ἘπίνικοςEpinikos, Epinicus… the wife of Leo I, he organized with her a plot against Emperor Zeno in 415 AD. After the latter fled from Rome, Basiliscus (DIR entry by Hugh Elton at web address 2) was …
- α1549ἈμέλιοςAmelios, Amelius… 183. [1] In Syria; but in fact (Porphyry, Life of Plotinus 7) he came from Etruria, in central Italy. [2] 246-269.
- ε3737ΕὐσέβιοςEusebios, Eusebius… In 262, Porphyry initiated his six-year study of Neoplatonism with Plotinus in Rome. Exhausted from his apprenticeship, Porphyry then retreated to Sicily for five years, returning to Rome as Plotinus' successor. [7] Pamphilus and …
- α1124Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ ΜαμαίαςAlexander Mamaias, Alexander son of Mamaia… Nevertheless, Elagabalus lost the support of the Senate and began plotting against his cousin Alexander, whom he recognized to be broadly supported by the Praetorian Guard. At the age of eighteen, along with his …
- ε3046ἙρμογένηςHermogenes… [2] Probably the Athenian Stoic mentioned in Porphyry, Life of Plotinus 20 (RE Musonios (17)). This and other details in the present article are discussed in Heath (1998). [3] Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists …
- δ1170Διονύσιος ὁ ἈρεωπαγίτηςDionysios the Areiopagite, Dionysius the Areopagite… is very similar to the union with the One, which Plotinus experienced four times in his life, and Porphyry only once. Even the doctrine concerning evil can be understood on the ground of a …