Anonymi Paradoxographi De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana) 20

ed. Nicola Festa

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Περὶ τοῦ πυρὸς τοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν Διομήδους ὅπλων.

Τί τὸ ἀκατάπαυστον πῦρ ὃ ἀνή‹στρα›πτεν ἀπὸ τῶν ὅπλων τοῦ Διομήδους; ἐπεὶ φωσφόρος παραδίδοται ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ καὶ χορηγός ἐστι νοῦ καὶ φρονήσεως ἀληθοῦς, ἀνῆψε τῇ Διομήδους ψυχῇ φῶς καὶ τὴν ἀχλὺν ἀφείλατο, ἤγουν τὴν ἀγνωσίαν, ἧς παρούσης οὐχ ὁρᾷ ψυχή. λέγεται γάρ·

ἀχλὺν δ᾿ αὖ τοι ἀπ᾿ ὀφθαλμῶν ἕλον ἣ πρὶν ἐπῆεν · καὶ τοῦτο ἂν νοηθείη τὸ πῦρ καὶ ἡ παρασχοῦσα αὐτῷ Ἀθηνᾶ.

Οὕτω Πρόκλος.

De Incredibilibus (excerpta Vaticana). Anonymi Paradoxographi. ed. Nicola Festa. Leipzig. 1902.

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Peri Apiston (Greek) (Anonymi Paradoxographi. Mythographi Graeci. Vol. 3, fasc. 2.Festa, Nicola, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1902.)

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Excerpta Vaticana First1KGreek (Anonymi Paradoxographi. Rationalizing Myth in Antiquity, Hawes, Greta, author and translator. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) — 20 focus

The fire from Diomedes’ weapons.

What is that incessant fire which would flash from the weapons of Diomedes? Athena is traditionally known as the ‘lightbringer’ and she is the patroness of intellectual activity and true wisdom. She lit a fire in Diomedes’ soul, and took away the mist, that is to say his ignorance, in the presence of which the soul is blind. For it is said: What is more I have taken the mist from your eyes, which before was upon them [ Il. 5.127]. And that’s what the fire should be thought to be, and it is Athena who provides it. Thus in Proclus.

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The fire from Diomedes’ weapons.

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