Dear Dennis, one problem with your enquiry is that the very idea of being specific and accurate regarding the Trinity only arose in response to what the...
Stobaeus (3.1.173) included the Commandments of the Seven Wise Men, listing the little-known Sosiades as the source. For centuries these 147 gnomic sentences...
Hi John, ... Draft translations of about a third of them, with modern interpretive remarks, can be found here: <omphalos.org/BA/Hupothekai.pdf> ... That would...
... Looks nice, thanks very much, as I was not familiar with these. I did notice 56 seems a bit awkward - "down look" - I think I would change that, and there...
thank you for this. for the benefit of lay participants in the group, would you give some short background information. thanks. ... From: john.uebersax...
... John Uebersax already provided quite a bit of background in a previous message. Here's some more: There are a number of editions of the Sayings of the...
Dennis - thanks for catching the typos. Mike - thanks, I didn't know about Porphyry's comments (much less the Arab version!) Robin - In addition to what Mike...
List, Â Still digging up notes and references. As an undergraduate, I had a triple major (one switched from physics to cognitive science): philosophy, history...
I happened to be reading the Vishnu Purana and Wilson's intro touches upon the Indian theory for Ammonius Saccas (going back to 1864) - which probably prompted...
It would seem to me more appropriate to think of the Semitic root SQQ, which gives, for instance, Assyrian *shakku*, Greek *sakkos* and Latin *saccus*, cf....
... I regret to report that its nature and origins are every bit as confusing as those Ammonius Sakkas himself. I mentioned prevously Berosus' report on the...
Haumavarga: I'll check but first impression of this word is that there are references to one of the reasons Zarathustra banned the Haoma cult is that the...
... Yes, I like the last one best now! Why not haoma-swigging - turns out that is really ephedrine, right? As in the main ingredient of all that Sudafed I used...
As an aside, one of the things scholars neglect when investigating the origins of the Mithraic Mysteries is Parthian-era Zoroatrianism and Iranian religions....
We are not sure what soma was. Given a description of its preparation and its effects (and locale), paleo-pharmacologists best guess is a psychedelic combined...
I mentioned that the three tribes mentioned may be three classes. This appears to be confirmed below. Sakas may be another name for the priestly class of...
PS, My indo-European dictionary makes Sakas cognate to Sacer, etc. ... From: Thomas Mether <t_mether@...> Subject: [neoplatonism] Scythian, Sakas, Saccas...
I confirmed it today. The legend of the Haumavarga as soma-induced "werewolves" in Scythian myth is discussed by  Bruce Lincoln, Priests, Warriors, and...
Never mind Ammonius Saccus and the possible sources of his name - we now need to consider why Amazon in the UK (www.amazon.co.uk) have decided that Plotinus'...
Perhaps it is a Murdoch News Corp plot to hack into the one and take it over. Proceeding from there, News Corp becomes Nous Corp wherein all news is no news. ...
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John Dillon
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Aug 12, 2011 4:40 pm
... Yes, Tim, I checked and you are quite right! Janet! Poor old Plotty. How humiliating. John [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Finally a way to get rich writing fiction - "Janet Plottin and the Philosopher's Tooth"? ...female Harry Potter who has to learn the three secret...
Does anyone know if someone is currently working on an English translation of Hermias' commentary of the Phaedrus? This is a text that would be nice to have...
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Suzanne Stern-Gillet
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Aug 14, 2011 3:34 pm
I happen to know that negotiations are in progress between a team of young scholars and a publisher. It is early stages as yet, so I do not feel at liberty to...
... In case it's not generally known, there is a translation into German: Bernard, H.1997. Kommentar zu Platons "Phaidros" (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck). To be...
