[B-Greek] SEBOUSI

Anita Clerke clerke at humanperformance.cc
Sun Dec 23 02:38:29 EST 2007


Thank you everyone for your very helpful replies. Regarding Lucian's  
use of sebousi, it was mentioned that it is used a couple of times in  
True History. However after reading it in english I can't find the  
section dealing with worship or reverence of a slop jar or something  
similar. Could someone please give me more details of where in True  
History he has used sebousi?

I have found True Story (the other name for True History) at http:// 
www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/tru01.htm
and this has Greek and English on facing pages, and I can find one  
reference to a jar on page 259 in Book 1, but no references to  
worship or revere in english. In Book II on page 339 a reference to  
worship of the gods of Night and the Cock, and a reference to jar on  
page 345

In Lucian's other works, I can find the following references to  
"worship" in:
1) The Tyrannicide, p. 182 paragraph 19, namely when he questions his  
readers as to whether they should worship a sword as a god;
2) Lexiphanes p. 268 paragraph 12 " Well, Damasias fell down and  
worshipped the Goddess (they have an Artemis by Scopas in the middle  
of the court)"
3) THE SCYTHIAN, where - in the opening paragraph - he talks of how  
Toxaris "presently came to be ranked among the Heroes; and sacrifice  
is still paid to 'the Foreign Physician,' as he was styled after his  
deification. Some account of the significance of this name, the  
origin of his worship, and his connexion with the sons of Asclepius.."

Could you tell me what Greek word or words Lucian uses for worship in  
these four ( I am unable to determine from the Greek facing page what  
word is used for worship of Night and the Cock) instances?

I have found online volume 3 of Lucian's works published by the Loeb  
Classical Library translated by AM Harmon with English and Greek on  
facing pages. It's address is http://www.ancientlibrary.com/lucian-3/ 
as accessed on 23/12/2007. This however doesn't include any of the  
titles mentioned in any of these posts regarding Lucian and sebousi.

I am interested as


Jonathan Clerke
clerke at humanperformance.cc






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