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Belief in eternal life (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices



01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery


Keywords
immortality
Period
3rd century CE
Achaemenid Empire
Roman Empire
Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars


Text
Diogenes Laërtius, Vitae Philosophorum 1.9:
The last named author [sc. Theopompus of Chios, 4th cent. BCE] says that according to the [Babylonian] Magi men will live in a future life and be immortal, and that the world will endure through their invocations.


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Diogenes Laërtius, Vitae Philosophorum 1.9
Theopompus, Histories (FGrHist 115.F.65)

Bibliography

Marincola 1997, n114Marincola, John. Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge Univesity Press 1997 (n. 114).

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Diogenes Laërtius (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Simo Parpola


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