Hellenistic religion

purported author of the Hermetic Corpus

methodology for cultural comparison

body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, containing magical spells, formulae, hymns, and rituals, dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE

late form of ancient Greek religion

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essay on the study of magic in the Greco-Roman world

An aretalogy (), from ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -logy,or aretology (from ancient Greek aretê, "excellence, virtue") in the strictest sense is a narrative about a divine figure's miraculous deeds where a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person. The equivalent term in Sanskrit is ātmastuti. There is no evidence that these narratives constituted a clearly defined genre but there exists a body of literature that contained praise for divine miracles. These literary works were usually associated with eastern cults.

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Imperial cult in Hellenistic ancient Egypt

text by Pseudo-Apuleius