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Sextus Empiricus über Euhemeros (279 Aufrufe)
Γραικύλος schrieb am 09.12.2024 um 00:03 Uhr (Zitieren)
Sextus Empiricus, Adversus mathematicos IX 50 f.:
Of those, then, who have inquired as to the existence of God some say that God exists, some that he does not exist, some that he has existence “no more” than non-existence. That he exists is the view of most of the Dogmatists and the general conception of ordinary folk; that he does not exist is the view of those who are designated “atheists”, such as Euhemerus –

γέρων ἀλαζών, ἄδικα βιβλία ψήχων,

A hoary braggart, penning wicked books,

and Diagoras of Melos, and Prodicus of Ceos, and Theodorus, and a host of others. Of these, Euhemerus declared that those counted as Gods were certain men of power, because of which they were deified by the rest and reputed to be Gods; [...].

[Sextus Empiricus, Against Physicists. Ed. by R. G. Bury. Cambridge (Mass.)/London 1936, pp. 28 sq.]
 
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