New Light on the “Chaldaean Oracles”
HANS LEWY's posthumous book, the fruit of many years' devoted study, should arouse fresh interest in one of the most tantalizingly obscure of ancient Greek texts. The Chaldaean Oracles were a divine revelation in bad hexameter verse; its authors were believed to be gods (speaking through the lips of entranced mediums?), but it was given to the world, as Lobeck guessed and Bidez finally proved, by one "Julianus the theurgist," who lived under Marcus Aurelius. It is of serious concern to historians
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