Thinkers of the Classical Antiquity
Tatian
120 – 173
Religionquotes
Tatian of Adiabene, or Tatian the Syrian or Tatian the Assyrian, was an Assyrian Christian writer and theologian of the 2nd century.
Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume 3: Tatian, Theophilus, And The Clementine Recognitions
Justin_Martyr
100 – 165
Philosophyquotes
Justin Martyr, also known as Justin the Philosopher, was an early Christian apologist and philosopher. The First Apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life and provides various arguments to convince the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius to abandon persecution of the Church. Justin also indicates that historical manifestations of the Logos predated Christ's incarnation, and that many historical Greek philosophers were unknowing Christians.
The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.
Elagabalus
203 – 222
Religionquotes
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus and Heliogabalus, was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His short reign was notorious for religious controversy and alleged sexual debauchery. A close relative to the Severan dynasty, he came from a prominent Syrian Arab family in Emesa (Homs), Syria, where he served as the head priest of the sun god Elagabal from a young age.
delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles.
Apuleius
125 – 170
Literaturequotes
Apuleius, also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day M'Daourouch, Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens, travelled to Italy, Asia Minor, and Egypt, and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries.
No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the Gods of heaven, will be heard or believed.
Pausanias
150 – 175
Literaturequotes
Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.
Plotinus
205 – 270
Philosophyquotes
Plotinus was a Hellenistic Greek philosopher, born and raised in Roman Egypt. Plotinus is regarded by modern scholarship as the founder of Neoplatonism.
All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another.
Philostratus
193 – 211
Historyquotes
Philostratus or Lucius Flavius Philostratus, called "the Athenian", was a Greek sophist of the Roman imperial period. His father was a minor sophist of the same name. He flourished during the reign of Septimius Severus (193–211) and died during that of Philip the Arab (244–249), probably in Tyre.
I, whenever I see thee, thirst, and holding the cup, apply it to my lips more for thy sake than for drinking.
Cyprian
200 – 258
Religionquotes
Cyprian was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.
For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.
Words from December 9
"Ante-Nicene Christian Library, Volume 3: Tatian, Theophilus, And The Clementine Recognitions"
Tatian
120
"Die to the world, repudiating the insanity that pervades it. Live to God, and by apprehending God, apprehend your own nature as a spiritual being created in his image."
Tatian
120
"The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated."
Justin_Martyr
100
"For there is not one single race of men, whether barbarians, or Greeks, or whatever they may be called, nomads, or vagrants, or herdsmen living in tents, among whom prayers and giving of thanks are not offered through the name of the crucified Jesus."
Justin_Martyr
100
"delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles."
Elagabalus
203
"He undertook to disparage my age when he himself had appointed his ten-year-old son."
Elagabalus
203