Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Groups

    Bacchae

    group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages

    the Bacchae

    spoken of as

    1 expression

    the Bacchae1 mention

    Stromata (Greek)

    Truth, then, being one (for falsehood has ten thousand byways), the schools of philosophy, both the barbarian and the Greek, like the Bacchae tearing apart the limbs of Pentheus, each boasts of the part it has obtained as though it were the whole truth;
    book 1

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Female devotees of Dionysus who, in myth, tear apart Pentheus; used as a simile for the fragmentation of philosophy.

    Truth, then, being one (for falsehood has ten thousand byways), the schools of philosophy, both the barbarian and the Greek, like the Bacchae tearing apart the limbs of Pentheus, each boasts of the part it has obtained as though it were the whole truth;
    book 1

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Female worshippers of Dionysus, invoked as a comparison for admiring young men.

    When many young men at leisure marvel at one, leaping about, as the Bacchae about Dionysus, it is altogether necessary that this man, in no long time, seem to many of the rest to say something.
    oration 35