Paganism

Traditions

• Pythagoræans include the Peripatetics, Stoics include the so-called Sceptics, & Epicureans include the so-called Democritæans & Pyrrhonists.
• Prophets are contemporarily called Gnostics.
• Magians are contemporarily called Zoroastrians.
• Brachmins are contemporarily called Hindus.
• Samanæans are contemporarily called Buddhists.

Idols

• Chaos:
  • As Chaos, is also called Chasma.
• Dies:
  • As Dies, is also called Aurora.
  • As Hémera, is also called Éós.
• Tellus:
  • As Gé, is also called Gæa.
  • As Cissaré, is also called Ci.
• Tethys:
  • As Téthys, is also called Thalassa.
  • As Tauthé, is also called Thalatté.
• Saturn:
  • As Cronus, is also called Chronus.
• Venus:
  • As Chabar, also called Alilat, is the god of the Hagarenes (now called Moslems). The fragments of the head of her idol are embed in the black stone at Mecca. Previously, the Arabs worshipped her with Aluzza & Manat.
  • As Istar, is also called Astarté & Mylitta.
• Dis:
  • As Dis & Hadés, is also called Plutó.
• Jupiter:
  • As Jupiter, is also called Jove.
  • As Zeus, is also called Dias.
  • As Bel, is also, by some, called Illinus.
• Sol:
  • As Sol & Apolló, is also called Phœbus.
  • As Apolló, is also called Hélios.
• Diana:
  • As Artemis, is also called Seléné.
  • As Seléné, is also called Méné.
• Minerva:
  • As Athéna, is identified, by some, with Assyrian Anaïtis.
• Mercury:
  • As Hermés, is identified, by some, with Ægyptian Anubis.
• Liber:
  • As Liber & Dionysus, is also called Bacchus
  • As Dionysius, is also called Phanés, Métis, Ericepæus, Æon, Zagreus, & Sabazius.
  • As Sabazius, is identified by some as the god of the Jews.
  • As Osiris, is also called Serapis.
• Proserpina:
  • As Persephoné, is also called Coré & Praxidicé.

Other Nations

• Mars:
  • As Tiw, is also, by the Latins, called Mars Thingsus.

Groups

Catalogues

For a want of traditional lists of the complete writings of the philosophers, here they are:

Plato

The Athenian theater grouped plays into tetralogies, three tragedies with a comedy. So are the works of Plato ordered into nine tetralogies.

By Diogenes Laërtius:

Aristotle

By Andronicus of Rhodes:

• Logic
  • “Organon”
    • Categories
    • On Interpretation
    • Prior Analytics
    • Posterior Analytics
    • Topics
    • On Sophistical Refutations
• Physics
  • Physica
  • On the Heavens
  • On Generation & Corruption
  • Meteorology
  • On the Universe
  • On the Soul
  • “Parva Naturalia”
    • Sense & Sensibilia
    • On Memeory
    • On Sleep
    • On Dreams
    • On Divination in Sleep
    • On Length & Shortness of Years
    • On Youth, Old Age, Life & Death, & Respiration
  • On Breath
  • History of Animals
  • Parts of Animals
  • Movement of Animals
  • Progression of Animals
  • Generation of Animals
  • On Colors
  • On Things Heard
  • Physiognomonics
  • On Plants
  • On Marvellous Things Heard
  • Mechanics
  • Problems
  • On Indivisible Lines
  • The Situations & Names of Winds
  • On Melissus, Xenophanes, & Gorgias
• Metaphysics
  • Metaphysics
• Ethics
  • Nicomachean Ethics
  • Great Ethics
  • Eudemian Ethics
  • On Virtues & Vices
  • Politics
  • Economics
• Poetics
  • Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric to Alexander
  • Poetics

References

• John of Damascus, St. “On Heresies” in: The Fount of Knowledge.
• Epiphanius of Salamis, St. Panarium.
• Sysoev, Daniel, St. A Chronicle of the Beginning
• Plato. Timæus.
• Damascius. Difficulties & Solutions of First Principles.
• Hesiod. Theogony.
• Homer. Illiad.
• Iamblichus. The Theology of Arithmetic.
• Plutarch. “On Isis & Osiris” in: Moralia.
• Porphyry. On Abstinence from Animal Food.
• Herodotus. Histories.
• Strabo. Geography.
• Laërtius, Diogenes. Lives & Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.