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03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
Keywords
resurrection
Zoroaster
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars
Text
Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 5.14: And the same (= Plato), in the tenth book of the Republic, mentions Eros the son of Armenius, who is Zoroaster. Zoroaster himself records: ‘Zoroaster, the son of Armenius, a native of Pamphylia, who was killed in war, wrote this account of what he learned from the gods when he was in Hades.’ Now Plato asserts that this Zoroaster, after lying for twelve days on the pyre, came back to life. He alludes perhaps to the resurrection, or perhaps to the fact that the path for souls to ascension lies through the twelve signs of the zodiac; and he himself says, that the descending pathway to birth is the same. In the same way we are to understand the twelve labours of Heracles, after which the soul obtains release from this entire world.
