Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 1 (of 2)Legge, Francis
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Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 1 (of 2)
Legge, Francis
Christianity and other religions; Religions
Sylvain Lévi, “Bouddhisme et les Grecs,” _Revue de l’Histoire des
Religions_, 1891, p. 2; Percy Gardner, _Catalogue of Bactrian and
Indian Coins in British Museum_. Arts other than the plastic also
received attention. Amitrochates, son of the famous Chandragupta or
Sandracottus, wrote to Antiochus (Soter?) to buy him some sweet wine,
dried figs, and a sophist. He received the other commodities, but was
told that it was not lawful to sell sophists in Greece. See Athenaeus,
_Deipnosophistae_, Bk XIV. c. 67 quoting Hegesander.
Footnote 51:
Droysen, _op. cit._ III. p. 66. Cf. the _Omnis Oriens loquitur_ of St
Jerome _Prol. ad Epist. ad Galatas_; and Deissmann, _New Light on the
New Testament_ (English edition), 1907, p. 30.
Footnote 52:
1 Kings xx. 23.
Footnote 53:
1 Sam. iv. 6, 7.
Footnote 54:
Maspero, “La Fille du Prince de Bakhtan” in _Contes Populaires de
l’Ancienne Égypte_, Paris, p. 159.
Footnote 55:
Pater, _Plato and Platonism_, 1901, pp. 85, 86.
Footnote 56:
Aristotle, _Metaphysica_, Bk XI. c. 6.
Footnote 57:
Xenophon, _Memorabilia_, Bk I. c. 1, § 1-5.
Footnote 58:
Plutarch, _Alexander_, c. VII.
Footnote 59:
So F. H. Woods, _The Hope of Israel_, Edinburgh, 1896, p. 205, where
he speaks of the religion of the Prophets and Psalmists, as “giving,
on the whole, by far the most perfect and, as compared with other
ancient literature, practically a unique example of monotheism.” Yet
as Winwood Reade points out, Solomon must have thought there were
other gods than Yahweh, because he worshipped other gods; _op. cit._
_supra_, p. 201.
Footnote 60:
Aristotle, _Politica_, Bk I. c. 2, § 7. Cf. Max Müller, _Religions of
India_ (Hibbert Lectures), 1880, p. 292.
Footnote 61:
Arrian, _op. cit._ Bk VI. c. 27.
Footnote 62:
See his repudiation of the night attack advised at Arbela: οὐ κλέπτω
τὴν νίκην, “I steal no victory!” Plutarch, _Alexander_, c. XXXI.
Footnote 63:
Plutarch, _op. cit._ c. XXI. and c. XXX.
Footnote 64:
The wry neck or, in Mr Hogarth’s words, “the famous inclination of his
beautiful head towards the left shoulder” was imitated by dandies as
late as the time of Severus. For authorities see Hogarth, _Philip and
Alexander of Macedon_, 1897, p. 278, n. 2.
Footnote 65:
Droysen, _op. cit._ I. p. 218 and p. 479, n. 1. Major P. H. Sykes
lately found an inscription in Khorassan to Sulayman Shah who reigned
from 1667-1694 A.D. containing the words “His audience-chamber is the
Sun; his Army the Stars; his authority is like Alexander’s,” _Journal
of the Royal Asiatic Society_, 1910, pp. 1152, 1153.
Footnote 66:
Bouché-Leclercq, _Hist. des Lagides_, Paris, t. I. p. 130, n. 2,
points out that there was hardly a philosopher during the next three
centuries who did not write a treatise Περὶ τῆς βασιλείας.
Footnote 67:
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