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Reprint of the 1909 ed. published by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, which was issued as v. 26-27 of Books on Egypt and Chaldaea.

Examines the philosophical and spiritual climate of the Roman Empire during the period between the accession of Marcus Aurelius and the conversion of Constantine. During this period, material decline was steepest and the ferment of new religious…