that Euhemerus came from the Sicilian Messene (Messina). Diodorus Siculus is one of the very few sources who provide other details about Euhemerus' life...

Cyrenaics, Euhemerus forged a new method of interpretation for the contemporary religious beliefs. Though his work is lost, the reputation of Euhemerus was that...

island, first mentioned by ancient Greek philosopher Euhemerus in the late 4th century BC. Euhemerus describes this place as home to a utopian society made...

Ennius the physics of the universe. The Euhemerus presented a theological doctrine based on the ideas Greek of Euhemerus of Messene, who argued that the gods...

don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?" Euhemerus (c. 330–260 BCE) published his view that the gods were only the deified...

with the putative sunken Atlantis. A long-standing tradition begun by Euhemerus in the late 4th century BC and supported by Callimachus, endorsed by modern...

sense. The cult may be one of personality in the case of a newly arisen Euhemerus figure, or one of national identity (e.g., Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh or...

Nebuchadnezzar claims to be descended from Belus. Diodorus Siculus (6.1.10) cites Euhemerus as relating that Zeus (a euhemerized Zeus) went to Babylon and was entertained...

Velchanos had been an annual vegetative spirit. The Hellenistic writer Euhemerus apparently proposed a theory that Zeus had actually been a great king...

the Classical age became even more pronounced.: 89  Greek mythographer Euhemerus established the tradition of seeking an actual historical basis for mythical...

existence of an afterlife and the need to fear divine punishment after death. Euhemerus (c. 300 BCE) published his view that the gods were only the deified rulers...

Also, native tradition and certain ancient Greek historians (notably Euhemerus and Callimachus) maintain that Gozo is the island Homer described as Ogygia...

claims of this kind. This theory is named euhemerism after mythologist Euhemerus (c. 320 BCE), who suggested that Greek gods developed from legends about...

on the Ugaritic tables. The account of Euhemerus's wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea, where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history...

theogony of Euhemerus (4th century BC), the gods were treated as mortal rulers whose deeds were immortalized by tradition. Ennius translated Euhemerus into Latin...

of the seasons.: 311–317  Later, in the third century BCE, the scholar Euhemerus argued in his book Sacred History that the gods were originally flesh-and-blood...

account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of...

those who did not. Amaterasu Charismatic authority Cult of personality Euhemerus Incarnation James Frazer, The Golden Bough Robert Graves, The White Goddess...

Tegea. Glauce, twin sister of Pluto who died as an infant according to Euhemerus. Glauce, one of the Melian nymphs. Glauce, one of the 50 Nereids, marine-nymph...

(3rd century BC), author of epigrams Damophon (2nd century BC), sculptor Euhemerus (4th century BC), mythographer "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού - Κατοικιών...

(1854), Herculaneum Winiarczyk, Marek (2013). The "Sacred History" of Euhemerus of Messene. Walter de Gruyter. p. 30. ISBN 978-3110278880. Burkert 1985...

embellishment of its mythology. Ennius translated the work of Graeco-Sicilian Euhemerus, who explained the genesis of the gods as deified mortals. In the last...

Rhodes – historian Euenus – poet Euetes – writer Eugammon – epic poet Euhemerus – mythographer Eumelus (poet) – Corinthian poet Eumenes I – Attalid king...

Section Description I.3 1–2 Critiques of Eratosthenes' sources: Damastes, Euhemerus. 3 Critiques of Eratosthenes' geology, shape of the Earth. 4–7 Fossils...

extolling him as a present god who heard them, as the other gods did not. Euhemerus, a contemporary of Alexander, wrote a fictitious history of the world...

falsehoods. Strabo also attacked the credibility of the writers Pytheas and Euhemerus in the same chapter. The Attic verb βεργαΐζειν (bergaizein) was used in...

Alexander the Great to his mother Olympias. He was a contemporary of Euhemerus and explained similarly the human origin of the gods. The early Christian...

funerary inscription from Emerita Augusta in Lusitania. Publius Acculeius Euhemerus, named in an inscription from Ostia, dating to AD 172. Publius Accoleius...

Clement, like many pre-Nicene church fathers, writes favourably about Euhemerus and other rationalist philosophers, on the grounds that they at least...

romance and novelistic forms. Two known examples from Greek literature are Euhemerus' Sacred History and Iambulus’ Islands of the Sun. Their utopian islands...