Celestial Ascents among the Classical Greek

Hercules

Hesiod, Theogony, 949

Apollodorus, The Library [of Mythology], 2.7.7

Diodorus of Sicily, 4.38-39 (= LCLG 303:464-469)

Pindar, Nemean Odes, 10.55,60,80

Castor and Pollux

Apollodorus, The Library [of Mythology], 3.11.2 (= LCLG 122:30-35)

Ovid, Fasti 5.693-720 (= LCLL 253:313-315)

Cypria Epic Cycle = Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation, 2.305

Proclus, Chrestomathy

Odysseus

Homer, The Odyssey. 11. Descent into the Underworld (cf. Gilgamesh)

[get a copy from the library]

Parmenides

Leonaro Taran, ed., Parmenides: A Text with Translation, Commentary, and Critical Essay, (Princeton UP, 1965), lines 11-32. [HBLL B 235 .P22 E6]

(cf. Segal, "Heavenly Ascent," 1344)

Er the Pamphylian

Plato, Republic, 10.614B ff. (LCLG 276:490-521)

Aridaeus/Thespesius

Plutarch, "The Divine Vengeance" = "On Those Who Are Punished by the Deity Late", 22-33 inMoralia. (563b-568a) (= LCLG 405:268-299)

Celestial Ascents among the Romans

Dream of Scipio

Cicero, Republic, 6.9-29 (= LCLL 213:260-283)

Romulus

Ovid, Metamorphosis, 14.805-52 (=LCLL 43:356-361)

Ovid, Fasti, 2.496

Horace, Carmina, 3.3

Plutarch, Life of Romulus, 27.5

Livy History, 1.16

Dionysius of Halicarnassus 2.56 (= LCLG 319:470-477)

Augustus

Virgil, "Fourth Eclogue" (= LCLL 63:28-33)

Apotheosis of Julius Caesar and other Roman rulers

Segal, "Heavenly Ascent," 1348-50

L'Orange, Hans Peter, Apotheosis in ancient portraiture. (Harvard, 1947) [HBLL N7580 .L6]

Apotheosis of Antinous

Dio, History, 69.11

Pausanias, Description 8.9.7-8

Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 4.8

Justin Martyr, First Apology, 1.29

Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus, 4

LCLG = Loeb Classical Library, Greek Series

LCLL = Loeb Classical Library, Latin Series

Hornblower, Simon and Antony Spawforth. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. (Oxford, 1996) [HBLL Ref 5 DE 5 .O9 1996]

On revelations in Dreams in the Classical world

Aristotle, On Prophecy in Sleep, 462b, 12-464b, 18

Artemidorus of Daldis, trans. Robert J. White. The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica). (Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes, 1975) 4.72

"When a man was talking about the heavenly bodies and meteors, 'Pray how many days,' said [Diogenes the Cynic] to him, 'is it since you came down from the heavens?' " Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, 6.2

Bibliography to Get

Johnston, Sarah Iles. "Riders in the Sky: Cavalier Gods and Theurgic Salvation in the Second Century A.D." Classical Philology 87 (1992):303-21

Goodman, Felicitas. Where Spirits Ride the wind: Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences. (Indiana UP, 1990)

Artemidorus of Daldis, trans. Robert J. White. The Interpretation of Dreams (Oneirocritica). (Park Ridge, N.J.: Noyes, 1975) 4.72

King Nechepso

in Vettius Valens, Anthologiae VI, preface, ed. Wilhelm Kroll, Berlin: Weidmann, 1908