The Golden Verses of Pythagoras · 115 of 122 · tr. Florence M. Firth
Section 13 (part 82)
Χρυσοκόμης δὲ Διώνυσος ξανθὴν Ἀριάδνην, κούρην Μίνωος, θαλερὴν ποιήσατ᾽ ἄκοιτιν.
Τὴν δέ οἱ ἀθάνατον καὶ ἀγήρω θῆκε Κρονίων.
Ἥβην δ᾽ Ἀλκμήνης καλλισφύρου ἄλκιμος υἱός, 950 ἲς Ἡρακλῆος, τελέσας στονόεντας ἀέθλους, παῖδα Διὸς μεγάλοιο καὶ Ἥρης χρυσοπεδίλου, αἰδοίην θέτ᾽ ἄκοιτιν ἐν Οὐλύμπῳ νιφόεντι, ὄλβιος, ὃς μέγα ἔργον ἐν ἀθανάτοισιν ἀνύσσας ναίει ἀπήμαντος καὶ ἀγήραος ἤματα πάντα.
955 Ἠελίῳ δ᾽ ἀκάμαντι τέκεν κλυτὸς Ὠκεανίνη Περσηὶς Κίρκην τε καὶ Αἰήτην βασιλῆα.
Αἰήτης δ᾽ υἱὸς φαεσιμβρότου Ἠελίοιο κούρην Ὠκεανοῖο τελήεντος ποταμοῖο γῆμε θεῶν βουλῇσι, Ἰδυῖαν καλλιπάρῃον.
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Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.
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The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
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The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.
The text explicitly states that Dionysus and Heracles were mortal but are now gods, illustrating the transformation of a human into a divine being.
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