Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuits: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient World

Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuits: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient World

Occultism -- Greece -- History -- Sources
Occultism -- Rome -- History -- Sources
Civilization, Classical -- Sources

"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.

Georg Luck

Ann Arbor, MI : University of Michigan Press

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.

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