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The Golden Verses of Pythagoras · 119 of 122 · tr. Florence M. Firth

Section 13 (part 86)

Καί ῥ᾽ ἥ γε δμηθεῖσ᾽ ὑπ᾽ Ἰήσονι, ποιμένι λαῶν, 1000 Μήδειον τέκε παῖδα, τὸν οὔρεσιν ἔτρεφε Χείρων Φιλυρίδης· μεγάλου δὲ Διὸς νόος ἐξετελεῖτο. Αὐτὰρ Νηρῆος κοῦραι, ἁλίοιο γέροντος, ἦ τοι μὲν Φῶκον Ψαμάθη τέκε δῖα θεάων Αἰακοῦ ἐν φιλότητι διὰ χρυσέην Ἀφροδίτην, 1005 Πηλέι δὲ δμηθεῖσα θεὰ Θέτις ἀργυρόπεζα γείνατ᾽ Ἀχιλλῆα ῥηξήνορα θυμολέοντα. Αἰνείαν δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔτικτεν ἐυστέφανος Κυθέρεια Ἀγχίσῃ ἥρωι μιγεῖσ᾽ ἐρατῇ φιλότητι Ἴδης ἐν κορυφῇσι πολυπτύχου ὑληέσσης. 1010 Κίρκη δ᾽, Ἠελίου θυγάτηρ Ὑπεριονίδαο, γείνατ᾽ Ὀδυσσῆος ταλασίφρονος ἐν φιλότητι Ἄγριον ἠδὲ Λατῖνον ἀμύμονά τε κρατερόν τε· [Τηλέγονον δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἔτικτε διὰ χρυσέην Ἀφροδίτην.
Themes
Anthropomorphismtheology

Attributing human characteristics, emotions, or form to the divine; embodied divine imagery.

Aphrodite is described with human emotional traits ('smile-loving') and the gods possess 'counsel,' attributing human characteristics to the divine.

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Divine Providencetheology

Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.

Jason's journey is explicitly guided by the 'counsel of the ever-generating gods,' indicating a divine ordering of human events.

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Living Godtheology

The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.

The passage depicts deities like Aphrodite and the 'ever-generating gods' as actively intervening in human affairs through counsel and physical action.

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