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Lucian of Samosata, Concerning Sacrifices.8

16 Friday Jan 2015

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Enough of such things! Let us ascend to heaven, in a poetical flight along the same path as Homer and Hesiod, and there let us see how everything has been arranged.

It is brass on the outside, as we had heard from Homer, but peering a little over this, and simply turning your neck, the brightest light appears and pure sun and radiant start and the ground is gold.

Upon first entering there are the Hours, for these are the gates. After this we find Iris and Hermes, the servants and message bearers for Zeus. Next is Hephaestus with his forge and every sort of contrivance; after this the dwelling places for the gods and the palace of Zeus – all these spectacular things Hephaestus appointed.

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Lucian of Samosata: Concerning Sacrifices.7

06 Tuesday Jan 2015

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This should complete the condemnation: Rhea – there is need to speak just as much about these things – how she was not ashamed to act so wild – an old woman, already out of time and the mother of gods! Yet she chased boys, crazy jealous and dragging Attis about on lions; but enough about such things. Who then can blame Aphrodite for adultery; or Selena for falling out of the sky – repeatedly — to be with Endymion?

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