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Belief in eternal life (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Doctrine of salvation 03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices 03.02 Cult of Ištar 03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation Immortality of the soul 01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery 01.01 Cosmogonic and cosmological ideas 01.01.09 Immortality of the soul	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, n114

Marincola, 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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