How One Should Behave toward the Gods
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Date: c. 120 C.E.
Hierocles' treatise on how one should behave toward the gods, preserved as fragments in Stobaeus' Anthology (1.3.53 and 2.9.7). Hierocles, a Stoic philosopher active under Hadrian (around 117 to 138 CE), argues that the gods are unchanging and never the cause of evil for human beings. The English text is based on Thomas Taylor's 1822 translation, with archaic language lightly modernized.
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