Category
page 1Hellenistic religion
Hermes Trismegistus
purported author of the Hermetic Corpus
interpretatio Graeca
methodology for cultural comparison
Greek Magical Papyri
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
Hellenistic religion
late form of ancient Greek religion
Abraham River
river in Lebanon
magic in the Greco-Roman world
essay on the study of magic in the Greco-Roman world
aretalogy
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.
Damour river
river in Lebanon
Ptolemaic cult of Alexander the Great
Imperial cult in Hellenistic ancient Egypt
Asclepius
text by Pseudo-Apuleius