Classical Mediterranean spirituality : Egyptian, Greek, Roman

Contents: Histories. The faith of the pharonic period / J. Gwyn Griffiths ; The great Egyptian cults of oecumenical spiritual significance / J. Gwyn Griffiths ; The ancient and continuing pieties of the Greek world / A.H. Armstrong ; The spirituality of Socrates and Plato / J.B. Skemp ; Aristotle / Patrick Atherton ; Epicureans and Stoics / A.A. Long ; Roman spirituality / John Pinsent ; The piety and prayers of ordinary men and women in late antiquity / H.D. Saffrey ; Plutarch and second century Platonism / J.M. Dillon ; Neoplatonist spirituality -- Themes. Monotheistic and polytheistic elements in classical Mediterranean spirituality / John Peter Kenney ; The love of beauty and the love of God / Werner Beierwaltes ; The city in ancient religious experience / Patrick Atherton ; The self in ancient religious experience / Frederick M. Schroeder ; Body and soul in ancient religious experience / K. Corrigan ; The religious experience of time and eternity / Peter Manchester ; Cosmic piety / Jean Pépin ; The spiritual guide / I. Hadot ; The spiritual importance of not knowing / R.T. Wallis ; In praise of nonsense / Patricia Cox Miller.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Set in 11-point Garamond Antiqua.
Brown pictorial dust jacket over black cloth-covered boards, gilt on spine, black and white endbands.
Lower right corner of front cover bumped. Short tear head of back dust jacket flap. Foxing at edges of textblock, especially head and top of foreedge.