Falsafa

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

    The Atlas·Places

    Memphis

    place · 3 works · 6 mentions · 12 anchored passages

    in the texts

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Egyptian city, seat of the temple of Hephaestus and site of pyramids, repeatedly used as a geographic reference point.

    This is the story which I heard from the priests of Hephaestus ' temple at Memphis;
    chapter 2
    In these mountains are the quarries that were hewn out for making the pyramids at Memphis.
    chapter 2
    for I have seen that Egypt projects into the sea beyond the neighboring land, and shells are exposed to view on the mountains, and things are coated with salt, so that even the pyramids show it, and the only sandy mountain in Egypt is that which is above Memphis;
    chapter 2

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    Memphis, the Egyptian city said to have been founded by Apis, king of Argos.

    And Apis, the king of Argos, founds Memphis, as Aristippus says in the first book of his Arcadica.
    book 1

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Ancient Egyptian city, setting of the closing anecdote about the musician and the tyrant.

    But when the tyrant of the Syrians came to Memphis, the Egyptians, being struck with awe of him, summoned the musician.
    oration 32