Ancient pathways and hidden pursuits : religion, morals, and magic in the ancient world / Georg Luck.
2000
BF1421 .L83 2000 (Mapit)
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Title
Ancient pathways and hidden pursuits : religion, morals, and magic in the ancient world / Georg Luck.
Author
Luck, Georg, 1926-2013.
ISBN
0472107909 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472107902 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780472107902 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press, ©2000.
Language
English
Description
xii, 314 pages ; 25 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
9780472107902
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BF1421 .L83 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
133/.0938
Summary
"Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuits collects essays by classicist Georg Luck, published over the years in periodicals and handbooks. They deal with the various aspects of Greco-Roman life and thought, especially with religious beliefs, occult practices, psychology, and morals. The book is a companion to Luck's Arcana Mundi, an annotated translation of ancient texts on magic and the occult."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-281) and indexes.
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Table of Contents
Review of E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational
King Midas and the Orphic Mysteries
Virgil and the Mystery Religious
Review of Paul Rabbow, Seelenfuhrung: Methodik der Exerzitien in der Antike
Panaetius and Menander
Epicurus and His Gods
Was Lucretius Really Mad?
The Muses in Roman Poetry
Notes on the History of Lat Sapientia
Studia Divina in Vita Humana: On Cicero's Dream of Scipio and Its Place in Graeco-Roman Philosophy
On Cicero De fato 5 and Related Passages
A Stoic Cosmogony in Manilius (1.149-72)
Theurgy and Forms of Worship in Neoplatonism
The "Way Out": Philological Notes on the Transfiguration of Jesus
The Literary Form of Suetonius' Biographies and the Early Lives of Saints
Notes on the Vita Macrinae of Gregory of Nyssa
The Doctrine of Salvation in the Hermetic Writings
Recent Work on Ancient Magic
Magic, Miracle, and Salvation: The Spiritual Journey of Apuleius
Palladas: Christian or Pagan?
Two Predictions of the End of Paganism
Humor in Pagan Culture and in the Early Church.
King Midas and the Orphic Mysteries
Virgil and the Mystery Religious
Review of Paul Rabbow, Seelenfuhrung: Methodik der Exerzitien in der Antike
Panaetius and Menander
Epicurus and His Gods
Was Lucretius Really Mad?
The Muses in Roman Poetry
Notes on the History of Lat Sapientia
Studia Divina in Vita Humana: On Cicero's Dream of Scipio and Its Place in Graeco-Roman Philosophy
On Cicero De fato 5 and Related Passages
A Stoic Cosmogony in Manilius (1.149-72)
Theurgy and Forms of Worship in Neoplatonism
The "Way Out": Philological Notes on the Transfiguration of Jesus
The Literary Form of Suetonius' Biographies and the Early Lives of Saints
Notes on the Vita Macrinae of Gregory of Nyssa
The Doctrine of Salvation in the Hermetic Writings
Recent Work on Ancient Magic
Magic, Miracle, and Salvation: The Spiritual Journey of Apuleius
Palladas: Christian or Pagan?
Two Predictions of the End of Paganism
Humor in Pagan Culture and in the Early Church.