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Hellenistic religions : [electronic resource] the age of syncretism / edited, with an introduction, by Frederick C. Grant.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Library of liberal arts ; no. 134Publication details: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, c1953.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxxix, 196 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 067260342X (pbk.)
  • 9780672603426 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 292
LOC classification:
  • BL96 .H44 1953
Other classification:
  • 11.15
Online resources:
Contents:
Institutional religion. Sacred histories, foundations, and votive offerings ; Sacred laws : rules for priesthoods, initiations, and sacrifices ; Religious practices and beliefs -- The criticism of traditional religion -- Cults. Orphism ; Oriental cults ; Egyptian cults ; Attis and Mithras -- Religious ideas of the philosophers. Cleanthes ; Epictetus on providence ; Epicurus on human happiness and the gods ; Diogenes : a philosophical testament ; Dio Chrysostom's Olympic oration ; Alexander on topics in praise of God ; Maximus on the use of images ; Plotinus ; Hymns of Proclus ; Iamblichus ; Salustius concerning the gods and the universe.
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Institutional religion. Sacred histories, foundations, and votive offerings ; Sacred laws : rules for priesthoods, initiations, and sacrifices ; Religious practices and beliefs -- The criticism of traditional religion -- Cults. Orphism ; Oriental cults ; Egyptian cults ; Attis and Mithras -- Religious ideas of the philosophers. Cleanthes ; Epictetus on providence ; Epicurus on human happiness and the gods ; Diogenes : a philosophical testament ; Dio Chrysostom's Olympic oration ; Alexander on topics in praise of God ; Maximus on the use of images ; Plotinus ; Hymns of Proclus ; Iamblichus ; Salustius concerning the gods and the universe.

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