Ancient Pathways and Hidden Pursuits
Subtitle: Religion, Morals, and Magic in the Ancient World
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: May 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780472107902
Subjects: Ancient Greek religion; Sociology; History - General History; Occult Sciences; Body, Mind & Spirit; Rome; Parapsychology - General; Ancient - Greece; Anthropology - Cultural; History / Ancient / General; Sources; Civilization, Classical; Greece; History; Occultism
Description: "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.