Note 437 — VII THE SUFFERINGS OF HELL AND METEMPSYCHOSIS
Reading edition
Punishment by fire is mentioned for the first time in Philodemos, Περὶ θεῶν, XIX, 16 ss. Philodemos being a Syrian, it is not unlikely that this tenet is of Oriental origin. Cf. Diels, Abhandl. Akad. Berlin, 1916, p. 80, n. 3.