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Crassus and the goddess in Hierapolis (1)

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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
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12 Assyrian Identity
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 		Keywords
omens
Rome
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Plutarch, Crassus 17.5-6:
[Crassus] spent many days weighing exactly the treasures of the goddess in Hierapolis, and prescribed quotas of soldiers for districts and dynasts to furnish, only to remit the prescription when money was offered him, thereby losing their respect and winning their contempt. And the first warning sign came to him from this very goddess, whom some call Aphrodite, others Hera, while others still regard her as the natural cause which supplies from moisture the beginnings and seeds of everything, and points out to mankind the source of all blessings. For as they were leaving her temple, first the youthful Crassus stumbled and fell at the gate, and then his father fell over him.

Source (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Plutarch, Crassus 17.5-6

Bibliography

Perrin 1959, 366-367Perrin, Bernadotte. Plutarch's Lives. 11 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1959.

Amar Annus


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