Publication
Imprint: Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill, c1953. Series: Library of liberal arts, 134. Responsibility: edited, with an introduction, by Frederick C. Grant. Physical: Text : 1 volume : xxxix, 196 pages ; 21 cm.
Call number
History / Grant
ISBN
067260342X / 9780672603426
Collections
CSS Library Notes
Table of 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.
FY1991 /
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.
FY1991 /
Physical description
xxxix, 196 p.; 21 cm
Language
Original language
English
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