Section: 5B - Ancient.
Number of quotes: 6
Ancient Rome by Robert Payne
Robert Payne
Book ID: 16 Page: 227
Section: 5B
The fall and ruin of the world will soon take place, but it seems that nothing of the kind is to be feared as long as the city of Rome stands intact. But when the capital of the world has fallen . . . who can doubt that the end will have come for the affairs of men and for the whole world? It is that city which sustains all things. - Lactantius, The Divine Institutions
Quote ID: 300
Time Periods: 4
Continuity and Change in Roman Religion
J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz
Book ID: 313 Page: 21
Section: 5B
It is likely that religion was used to maintain patrician claims from the beginning.The Romans lacked any sense that religion is sullied if it is exploited for sectional interest, and that the gods must be fair to all sections of society.
Quote ID: 7607
Time Periods: 01234
Lucretius, On The Nature Of Things, LCL 181: Lucretius
Lucretius
Book ID: 162 Page: 193
Section: 3C2,5B
Thus it is more useful to scrutinize a man in danger or peril, and to discern in adversity what manner of man he is: for only then are the words of truth drawn up from the very heart, the mask is torn off, the reality remains.
Quote ID: 8644
Time Periods: 04
Pausanias, Description of Greece, LCL 297: Pausanias, Vol. 4, Books 8.22-10
Translated by W.H.S. Jones
Book ID: 694 Page: 431
Section: 5B
There is a rock rising up above the ground. On it, say the Delphians, there stood and chanted the oracles a woman, by name Herophile and surnamed Sibyl. The former Sibyl I find was as ancient as any; the Greeks say that she was a daughter of Zeus by Lamia, daughter of Poseidon, that she was the first woman to chant oracles, and that the name Sibyl was given her by the Libyans. Herophile was younger than she was, but nevertheless she too was clearly born before the Trojan war, as she foretold in her oracles that Helen would be brought up in Sparta to be the ruin of Asia and Europe, and that for her sake the Greeks would capture Troy.*PJ note: Pausanias, Description of Greece, trans. W.H.S. Jones, Vol. 4, bks. 8.22-10, Loeb Classical Library 297 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, [Reprint ?]. First published 1935, 431.*
Quote ID: 9822
Time Periods: 0
Porphyrius The Charioteer
Alan Cameron
Book ID: 180 Page: 3
Section: 5B
appropriately enough in the person of Porphyrius, champion of hippodromes all over the Empire for more than forty years.
Quote ID: 3938
Time Periods: 56
Vigilantius and His Times
William Stephen Gilly
Book ID: 284 Page: 290
Section: 5B
The works of Origen contain doctrinal errors, which are summed up under eight heads.1. That the Son of God does not see the Father, and the Holy Ghost does not see the Son.
2. That the souls of men were once angels in heaven, and were committed to mortal bodies, as a punishment for their sins.
3. That Satan and the fallen angels will repent, and will be permitted to reign with the saints in heaven.
4. That Adam and Eve were incorporeal before the fall, and that the skins, wherein they were said to be clothed, were their bodies.
5. That man will not rise in the body.
6. That the paradise on earth was only allegorical of heaven.
7. That the waters above the firmament were angels; and the waters below were evil spirits.
8. That the image of God in man was effaced by sin.
Quote ID: 7235
Time Periods: 23
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