oenoanda

Updated: July 12, 2025

But the result so attained was considered sufficient. Further research was not encouraged. The various theories of learned men were all possible but none certain. Lucretius, writing 250 years later, appears to vary hardly in any detail from the doctrines of the Master, and Diogenes of Oenoanda, 500 years later, actually repeats his letters and sayings word for word. It is sad, this.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion

And, of course, in this paper I have left out of account many of the grosser forms of superstition. In any consideration of the balance, they should not be forgotten. If a reader of Proclus and the Corpus Hermeticum wants relief, he will find it, perhaps, best in the writings of a gentle old Epicurean who lived at Oenoanda in Cappadocia about A. D. 200.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion