Lucian of Samosata De Syria dea 5

Austin Morris Harmon (Translator)

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De Syria dea. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.

Funding provided by National Endowment for the Humanities.

Current edition Perseus

The Goddesse of Surrye (English) (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).)

Editions (1)
Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 4. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925 (printing).) — 5 focus

Notes on the current edition

The Goddesse of Surrye

1.
This cult was at Heliopolis (Baalbek). The god, who appears to have been originally Hadad but to have undergone syncrisis with the sun-god and with the Syrian ‘ “Apollo,” was worshipped far and wide as Jupiter Heliopolitanus. The cult image, says Macrobius (Saturn. 1, 23, 10) came from Heliopolis in Egypt by way of Assyria. The ambiguity of Lucian’s Greek (for fepdy suggests “holy place”) seems meant to convey the jocose implication that the magnificent new temple, built by Antoninus Pius, had been transported thither without human hands,