Index
Achmîm, 27
Aelian
VH 2.26, 167
Aëtius
5.18.1, 328
5.19.5, 174,
5.27.1, 328
5.7.1, 328
O’Brien’s interpretation of Aëtius’ report on Empedocles’ zoogony (A 72), 326
Aidoneus, 130
Ammonius
De Interpr. CIAG 4.5, 249.1–11, 211
Anaxagoras
B 17, 221
Apollo
exile, 33
Aristophanes
Ran. 1033, 14
Clement of Alexandria
Strom. 5.81.2, 291
Cornford, F. M, 142
correspondences between demonic cycle and cosmic cycle,
on δαίμων as a quantum of Love,
cosmology,
cosmos
cosmic ages on the model of Hesiod’s myth of the races,
golden age, ,
moral import for the shape of the cosmos,
elements
and immortality, ,
called by the name of traditional gods, ,
in B 115, 36
nature of their godhood,
their life cycle, , ,
ἀκίνητοι,
Empedocles
A 1, 81
B 2.1, 289
B 2.3, 214
B 2.4, 214
B 2.6, 118
B 2.9,
B 3.9–13,
B 3.12, 291
B 4.3, 293
B 5, 112
B 8.1, 267
B 8.4, 267
B 17.1–2, 335
B 17.1–5,
B 17.3–5,
textual issues, 315
B 17.6, 229
B 17.12, 229
B 17.14, 302
B 17.20–8,
B 17.21, 267
B 17.24, 207
B 20, 276,
B 21, 276
B 21.1, 272
B 21.1–6,
B 21.7–12, , 275
B 22.1–3, 275
B 23, 54,
B 23.9–11, 272
B 26, ,
B 26.4–7, 333
B 27, 203,
B 28, 204,
B 29, 204
B 31, 203
B 35.3–11,
B 35.14
textual reconstruction, 192
B 35.14–16,
B 35.14–17, 192
B 57,
B 59, 174
B 59.2, 342
B 61,
B 62.7, 331
B 73, 280
B 89, 284
B 96, 280
B 101, 285
B 105,
B 110,
B 110.1–2, 292
B 111.9, 233
B 113, 214
B 113.2, 114
B 114.3, 267
B 115, , 51, , 141, 145, , 238
analogies with PStrasb. d–f 1–10,
Hippolytus’ reading,
Plutarch’s reading in De exilio, , 150
rejection of the standard interpretation,
Simplicius’ reading,
B 115.1–2, 43
B 115.3, 34
B 115.4,
B 115.9–12, 72
B 115.12–13,
B 117, 66,
B 119, 66,
B 122–3, 67,
B 124, 311
B 128,
B 130, 338
B 131,
B 133,
B 134, 210
B 137.6, 233
B 138, 233
B 139, 28
B 143, 13
B 145.2, 233
B 153a, 13
F 26 Mansfeld-Primavesi, 13
PStrasb. a(ii) 21–24, 271
PStrasb. a(ii) 29, 292
PStrasb. a(ii) 23–30,
PStrasb. a(ii) 29, 267
PStrasb. d–f 1–10, ,
PStrasb. d–f 1–4,
PStrasb. d–f 5–6, 40
Epimenides of Crete,
author of Purifications, 14
epistemology,
analogy and inductive reasoning,
Eris, 201
Euripides
Bacch. 53–4, 229
Harmonia, 200
Harpies, 59
Herodotus
2.123,
Hesiod
Catalogue of Women, Fr. 54a–c Merkelbach-West, 33
Erga 26, 109
Erga 106–201,
Erga 109–26, 85,
Erga 658–62, 100
Theog. 1–115, 98
Theog. 22–34,
Theog. 26, 115
Theog. 26–27 (on the lying Muses),
Theog. 39, 201
Theog. 44–45, 102
Theog. 47–52, 102
Theog. 274–75, 106
Theog. 740, 106
Theog. 744–57, 105
Theog. 783, 35
Theog. 784–806,
Hippolytus
Ref. 5.20.6, 38
Ref. 7.29.10, 202
Ref. 7.29.14, 203
Ref. 7.29.14–23, 32
Ref. 7.29.23, 202
Ref. 7.29–30,
Hladký, V., 200
Hölderlin, F., 6
Homer
Il. 1.70, 201
Il. 1.526–27, 53
Il. 2.485, 255
Il. 2.486, 255
Il. 3.420, 148
Il. 5.890–91, 351
Il. 12. 266–67, 350
Il. 17.687–88, 254
Il. 18.309, 352
Il. 20.203–5, 254
Il. 22.12, 53
Il. 24.460, 50
Od. 1.22–27, 255
Od. 4.417,
Od. 6.172, 148
Od. 10.508, 106
Od. 11.36ff.,
Od. 11.93–94, 74
Od. 12.37–38, 148
Od. 12.169, 148
Od. 23.181–204, 256
Od. 24.14, 77
Kamtekar, R., 279
katabasis, ,
of Aeneas (Aeneid 6.273ff.),
of Epimenides of Crete,
of Odysseus, 74
of Orpheus,
of Parmenides, ,
of Pythagoras, 97
Kerferd, G. B., 149
Kirk, G. S., Raven, J. E. and Schofield, M.
on the ‘ineliminable I’ of B 115, 238
knowledge acquisition
mind and blood, , 295
mind as a container, 292
physiological process of thinking and knowing,
purification and cognition, ,
role of sensation in thinking and knowing,
κρᾶσις and cognition,
Kotos, 201
Kronos, 213
like to like
Aristotle on the knowledge of the Sphairos, 208
in theories of perception and knowledge acquisition,
according to Aristotle and Theophrastus, 287
Long, A., 191
long-lived gods, 114
Integrated (divine) beings,
their godhood is associated with Love,
δαίμονες as long-lived gods, 214
Lonie, I., 277
Love and Strife,
associated with union and separation,
made as antithetical principles, ,
their godhood,
Martin, A and Primavesi, O.,
Martin, A., 27
Menander
fr. 500.1 Kassel-Austin, 85
metaphor
body as a tunic, 231
craftmanship for Love’s working on compounds, 280
of change of bodies (transformation) illustrating rebirths,
of the paths of life in B 115,
moral import
and the cosmos, ,
Morrison, A., 125
Most, G. W.
on Hesiod’s myth of the races, 345
Musaeus
A 6, 14
Parmenides
B 1, 102
B 1.1, 269
B 1.1–5,
B 1.5, 115
B 1.11–18,
B 1.16–18, 106
B 1.27–31,
B 1.30–31, 261
B 1.31, 111
B 2.1, 267
B 4, 267
B 4.1, 267
B 6,
B 6.4–7, 115
B 6.7, 267
B 6.9, 115
B 8.24, 263
B 8.30–8, 206
B 8.50–61,
B 8.53–4, 262
B 8.60–61, 261
B 9,
B 9.3, 263
B 10, 111
B 12.3, 149
perception,
Aristotle and Theophrastus on the principle of like to like, 287
Aristotle on likeness and the Sphairos lacking knowledge, 208
Aristotle’s identification of perception and cognition,
principle of like to like,
perjury (as a fault of the gods in B 115),
Plato
Crat. 397d–398 c, 163
Crat. 400 c, 88
Gorg. 492e–493a, 88
Phaedo 86e–88b, 236
Phaedo 107d–108 c, 157
Phaedr. 272d 2, 101
Republic 614b–621d,
Symp. 189d 5–191d 5, 4
Symp. 189d–193b, 312
Timaeus 90a–c, 161
Plutarch
Adv. Col. 10, 222
Adv. Col. 12.1113c–d, 134
Adv. Col. 32.4 p. 1126b, 56
De curios. 1.515, 56
De ex. 17.607 c–d, 147
De ex. 17.607d, 74
De ex. 17.559d–607 f, 150
De Is. 361 c, 39
De tranq. an. 474b, 86
Quaest. conv. 8.8.1 p. 728e, 112
Quaest. conv. 23 p. 219, 285
Quaest. nat. 916d, 284
Work on Empedocles in ten books, 38
poetical signature,
Poseidon, 213
Primavesi, O., 12, 27, 30, 49, , 243
fictional narrators, ,
on δαίμων in B 59, 175
on δαίμων in B115 and Empedocles’ exceptional nature, 154
theologia fabulosa/theologia naturalis, 179
Proteus,
pseudo-Pythagoras
Carm. Aur. 67, 14
Purifications
collection of healing utterances, purifying oracles, prescriptions of abstinence and small sayings,
rebirth
and metamorphosis,
Pythagoras’ doctrine of rebirth,
ranking of rebirths, 90
rejection of the elitist reading of Empedocles’ doctrine of rebirth, 154
the standard conceptualization of rebirth as transmigration,
religion and philosophy
apparent doctrinal antinomy, 2
Empedocles’ alleged spiritual development, 7
Kahn’s first substantial criticism against doctrinal conflict in Empedocles,
Kingsley and his Empedocles magos,
the Strasbourg papyrus on doctrinal unity,
revelation
of Parmenides’ philosophy,
as ultimate criterion of truth, 265
re-use of the words of Parmenides’ goddess,
Rubensohn, O., 27
Sassi, M. M., 298
Sedley, D. N., 12, 287, 313, 323, 341
on one cosmos, ,
on the allocation of B 115 within On Nature, 52
on the nature of Empedocles’ Purifications,
on the proems of Empedocles and Lucretius, , 118
semantic instability,
Gemelli Marciano,
Simplicius
Cael. 587.18–19, 329
Cael. 587.18–20, 174
Phys. 157.25, 27
Phys. 252a 5–19,
Phys. 371.33, 343
Phys. 372.6, 343
Phys. 381.29, 311
Phys. 381.29–382.18, 328
slaughter (as a fault of the gods in B 115), 34
Sphairos
as θεός, 203
blissfulness, 207
not anthropomorphic,
oneness,
perfect blend of elements,
perfect knowledge,
rest,
spherical form, 205
Stein, H., 6
stichometric sign, 28
Strasbourg papyrus
evidence for a novel reconstruction of On Nature, , , 66
zoogony
Aëtius’ report,
and embryology,
and δαίμων (B 59),
double zoogony as Love’s and Strife’s concurrent action on compounds,
human beings generated by Strife,
reconstruction of the zoogonic phases of the past (first to third phase),
ἀκίνητοι,
ἀλλογνώς, 231
ἀπορροαί, , 302
Γηθοσύνη, 207
δαίμων
demonic cycle and cosmic cycle,
Detienne’s demonic soul,
Hesiod on δαίμων, 85,
Homer on δαίμων, 148
in B 59,
in Plato’s Phaedo, 157,
in Plato’s Republic (myth of Er), ,
modern interpretations of δαίμων functioning as a soul,
personal δαίμων in Plato’s Timaeus,
Plato’s Cratylus on philosophers being δαίμονες,
Plato’s notion of the soul choosing a δαίμων,
predicative notion,
Pythagoras on δαίμων,
δαίμονες and long-lived gods, 214
Εὐσεβίη, 124
κόσμος,
μείγνυμι or μίγνυμι,
μονίη,
ξύνοδος,
πόρος, 283
φόνος, 120
ψυχή,
in Odysseus’ Nekyia (Hom. Od. 11.36ff.),
its nature, 237
not the seat of the person,
possible attestation of the term in B 126,
Pythagoras’ notion of ψυχή as the agent of rebirths,
ψυχοπομποὶ δυνάμεις,
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