Thespesius

And Thespesius 'kinsman told him that this was the way Dionysus went up to heaven by, and by which he afterwards took up Semele, and it was called the place of Oblivion.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Next Thespesius travelled as far in another direction, and seemed to see

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Then the kinsman of Thespesius (for there is nothing to prevent our calling the souls by the name of the persons), pointed out everything, and told him that Adrastea, the daughter of Necessity and Zeus, was placed in the highest position to punish all crimes, and no criminal was either so great or so small as to be able to escape her either by fraud or violence.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

At last he said he saw the soul of a relation, that he thought he knew but was not quite sure, as he died when he was a boy, which came up to him and said to him, "Welcome, Thespesius."

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

After he had said this, Thespesius 'kinsman hurried him at great speed through immense space, as it seemed to him, though he travelled as easily and straight as if he were carried on the wings of the sun's rays.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

And at first they saw only distressing and pitiable sights, but after that, Thespesius, little expecting it, found himself among his friends and acquaintances and kinsfolk who were being punished, and undergoing dreadful sufferings and hideous and bitter tortures, and who wept and wailed to him.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

After this Thespesius and his guide turned to see those that were undergoing punishment.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Palestine, where he studied rhetoric under Thespesius; and thence to

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

In Plutarch's account of what Thespesius saw when his soul was ravished away into hell for

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

Thespesius, and "the TA TONE PSEUCONE CROMATA," in the place of

Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851