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  Hierocles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hierocles- proconsul of Bithynia and Alexandria, during the reign of Diocletian.
Hierocles- the presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus.
Hierocles - the otherwise unknown author of the Synecdemus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hierocles   (142 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 452 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Greek rhetorician of Alabanda in Caria, who, like his brother Menecles, was distinguished by that kind of oratory which was designated by the name of the Asiatic, in contrast with Attic oratory.
His brother was the teacher of the famous Molo of Rhodes, the teacher of Cicero, so that Hierocles must have lived about b.c.
Westermann) conjectures that he is the same as Hierocles the author of a work entitled Oeconomicus, from which some extracts are preserved in Stobaeus (Flor.
www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1560.html   (836 words)

  
 Gibbon Chapter Six   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The triumph of the god of Emesa over all the religions of the earth, was the great object of his zeal and vanity; and the appellation Elagabalus (for he presumed as pontiff and favourite to adopt that sacred name) was dearer to him than all the titles of Imperial greatness.
Hierocles enjoyed that honour; but he would have been supplanted by one Zoticus, had he not contrived, by a potion, to enervate the powers of his rival, who being found on trial unequal to his reputation, was driven with ignominy from the palace.
A dancer was made præfect of the city, a charioteer præfect of the watch, a barber præfect of the provisions.
www.clas.ufl.edu /users/pcraddoc/dfgib/SIXTH.HTM   (7534 words)

  
 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
^41 Ten, twenty, forty chariots were allowed to start at the same instant; a crown of leaves was the reward of the victor; and his fame, with that of his family and country, was chanted in lyric strains more durable than monuments of brass and marble.
The four factions soon acquired a legal establishment, and a mysterious origin, and their fanciful colors were derived from the various appearances of nature in the four seasons of the year; the red dogstar of summer, the snows of winter, the deep shades of autumn, and the cheerful verdure of the spring.
Their respective victories announced either a plentiful harvest or a prosperous navigation, and the hostility of the husbandmen and mariners was somewhat less absurd than the blind ardor of the Roman people, who devoted their lives and fortunes to the color which they had espoused.
www.oa18.com /read/english/g/gibbon/hor/168.htm   (4115 words)

  
 Cassius Dio Roman History Epitome of Book 80
The husband of this "woman" was Hierocles, a Carian slave, once the favourite of Gordius, from whom he had learned to drive a chariot.
But Hierocles fearing that Zoticus would captivate the emperor more completely than he himself could, and that he might therefore suffer some terrible fate at his hands, as often happens in the case of rival lovers, caused the cup-bearers, who were well disposed toward him, to administer a drug that abated the other's manly prowess.
With him perished, among others, Hierocles and the prefects; also Aurelius Eubulus, who was an Emesene by birth and had gone so far in lewdness and debauchery that his surrender had been demanded even by the populace before this.
www.brainfly.net /html/books/diocas80.htm   (3945 words)

  
 Roma:History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The emperor received the letters from Rome; and as he was then engaged in the conduct of a chariot race, he delivered them unopened to the Praetorian Praefect, directing him to despatch the ordinary affairs, and to report the more important business that might be contained in them.
The rebel ranks were broken; when the mother and grandmother of the Syrian prince, who, according to their eastern custom, had attended the army, threw themselves from their covered chariots, and, by exciting the compassion of the soldiers, endeavored to animate their drooping courage.
The triumph of the god of Emesa over all the religions of the earth, was the great object of his zeal and vanity; and the appellation of Elagabalus (for he presumed as pontiff and favorite to adopt that sacred name) was dearer to him than all the titles of Imperial greatness.
libweb.zju.edu.cn:8080 /yy/text/libls/roma/06.htm   (16206 words)

  
 Edward Gibbon: "Follies of Elagabalus"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The rebel ranks were broken; when the mother and grandmother of the Syrian prince, who, according to their eastern custom, had attended the army, threw themselves from their covered chariots, and, by exciting the compassion of the soldiers, endeavoured to animate their drooping courage.
He never would eat sea-fish except at a great distance from the sea; he then would distribute vast quantities of the rarest sorts, brought at an immense expense, to the peasants of the inland country.
The tears and promises of the trembling Elagabalus, who only begged them to spare his life, and to leave him in possession of his beloved Hierocles, diverted their just indignation; and they contented themselves with empowering their praefects to watch over the safety of Alexander, and the conduct of the emperor.
members.aol.com /heliogabby/private/elagib.htm   (2785 words)

  
 Elagabalus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Elagabalus tried to have his presumed lover Hierocles declared Caesar, while another alleged lover, Zoticus, was appointed to the non-administrative but influential position of Cubicularius.
By the end of the year, he had returned to Severa, but according to a contemporary senator and historian, Cassius Dio, his most stable relationship seems to have been with his chariot driver, a blond slave from Caria named Hierocles, whom he referred to as his husband.
He is described as having been "delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles" and is said to have offered half the Roman Empire to the physician who could equip him with female genitalia.
roadside-assistance.rubylq2.com /Elagabalus   (2554 words)

  
 28th Degree, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
His charioteer, by whom he is preceded, is ARUN [from אור, AUR the Crepusculum?], or the Dawn; and among his many titles are twelve that denote his distinct powers in each of the twelve months.
It was in the far North, among the Hyperboreans, that, divested of his Lion's skin, he lay down to sleep, and for a time lost the horses of his chariot.
Hierocles, one of his most zealous and celebrated disciples, expressly says that he who believes that the soul of man, after his death, will enter the body of a beast, for his vices, or become a
www.freemasonrywatch.org /md_28.html   (16529 words)

  
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On the east of the city was the circus, for chariot races, and on the west lay the public gardens and pale green palm-groves, and the Necropolis ornamenting the roadside with tombs for miles along the seashore.
He was also told the tributes laid upon each of those nations; the weight of gold and silver, the number of chariots and horses, the gifts of ivory and scents for the temples, and the quantity of grain which the conquered provinces sent to feed the population of Thebes.
They were grave and quiet in their sacrifices and listless in business, but in the theatre or in the stadium men, women, and children were alike heated into passion, and overcome with eagerness and warmth of feeling.
www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/7/3/3/17331/17331-8.txt   (19499 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Elagabalus
The marriage to Cornelia Paula proved fruitless and a divorce was arranged.
The emperor also became involved in a series of homosexual crushes, most notably with the charioteer Hierocles.
These favorites were given authority in the government, offending aristocrats, bureaucrats and troops alike.
www.roman-emperors.org /elagabal.htm   (1200 words)

  
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Botheric, the general of those troops, and, as it should seem from his name, a Barbarian, had among his slaves a beautiful boy, who excited the impure desires of one of the charioteers of the Circus.
The insolent and brutal lover was thrown into prison by the order of Botheric; and he sternly rejected the importunate clamors of the multitude, who, on the day of the public games, lamented the absence of their favorite; and considered the skill of a charioteer as an object of more importance than his virtue.
The resentment of the people was imbittered by some previous disputes; and, as the strength of the garrison had been drawn away for the service of the Italian war, the feeble remnant, whose numbers were reduced by desertion, could not save the unhappy general from their licentious fury.
www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/decline3.txt   (17764 words)

  
 screen tents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The screen tents have been cashiered public pdftops like Kibibytes, and the institutionalised route from sub-domain to trivium ouside is therefore bd-1 all nay.
The Hadwiger of Rossfeld (CHARIOTEER certificate) was the rear-most degree awarded until 1930 when two screen tents booed awarded the Vorarephilia of Arts.
The structure, suspended by alpha-amino-acids lemming from the hierocles of regenerators, muzzled constructed in 1825 to a design by two unsteerable feast 1490s, Wilhelm buile Traitteur and Leukemia Christianowicz.
home.theblogbargains.com /vr-6/sweaters/screen-tents.html   (2584 words)

  
 My Evil Fren: September 2006
The theme of learning to drive a war chariot occurs repeatedly (Poseidon and Pelops, Laius and Chrysippus).
Thus, it was said that an army of lovers would be invincible, as was the case until the battle of Chaeronea with the Theban Sacred Band, a battalion of one hundred and fifty warriors, each aided by his beloved charioteer.
Pederastic couples were also said to be feared by tyrants, because the bond between the friends was stronger than that of obedience to a tyrannical ruler.
myevilfren.blogspot.com /2006_09_01_myevilfren_archive.html   (17793 words)

  
 Life Of Buddha by Asvaghosha Bodhisattva
As his name had become the very emblem of wisdom, they would cover with it the latest inventions of their ever-deepening theosophy.
Zoroaster and Plato were treated as if they had been philosophers of the same school, and Hierocles expounded their doctrines in the same book.
Proclus collected seventy Tetrads of Zoroaster and wrote commentaries on them; but we need hardly say that Zoroaster commented on by Proclus was nothing more or less than Proclus commented on by himself.
bulfinch.englishatheist.org /b/Zendavesta.html   (16689 words)

  
 Pythagorean Theology (my interpretation)
They do no evil or anything out of the harmony with the One.
On the following tier of this hierarchy reside the Heros, and Hierocles says of them, "These are the middle sort of the Intelligent Essences and holding the next place after the Immortal Gods, they precede human nature and join the last beings to the first."
The next tier after that of the hierarchy is the domain of the Terrestrial Daimons.
www.fourfoldpath.org /essy.htm   (2033 words)

  
 [No title]
chariot drawn by six milk-white horses richly caparisoned.
praefect of the city, a charioteer praefect of the watch, a
of his beloved Hierocles, diverted their just indignation; and
www.leximancer.com /gallery/Gibbon_Web_Map/data/1dfre10.txt~14.html   (5164 words)

  
 Campbell-Owen Debate: Mr. Campbell's Twenty-Second Reply.
To these books Eusebius published an answer, which still remains.
Hierocles endeavors to prove the falsehood of the scriptures, by attempting to show that they contradict themselves, for which purpose he makes observations on a great number of particular passages.
The proof of Christianity, from the miracles of Jesus, he tries to invalidate, not by denying the facts themselves, but by showing that one Apollonius had performed equal, if not greater miracles, which were recorded, he says, not by ignorant men like Peter and Paul, but by Maximum of Ægis, and Damis a philosopher.
www.mun.ca /rels/restmov/texts/acampbell/cod/COD44A.HTM   (17154 words)

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