Traditions of the Magi : Zoroastrianism in Greek and Latin literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jong, Albert de, 1966-
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1997.
Series:	Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 133.
Subjects:	Zoroastrianism > History. Zoroastrianism in literature. Classical literature > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Preliminary questions. 1. The classical texts on Iranian religions in Western scholarship. 2. A double unknown: problems and prospects. 3. Alterity and classical Orientalism: Persians in Graeco-Roman literature. 4. The interpretatio graeca of Iranian divinities. 5. Pseudo-zoroastrian literature and the Mages hellenises
2. Views of Zoroastrian history. 1. Introduction: the problem. 2. Fragmentising views. 3. Harmonising views. 4. Diversifying views. 5. The three approaches compared: the status of Zurvanism. 6. Oral religious traditions and the specialisation of knowledge
3. A commentary on five selected longer passages. 1. Herodotus, Histories 1.131-132. 2. Strabo, Geography 15.3.13-15. 3. Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 46-47 (369D-370C). 4. Diogenes Laertius 1.6-9. 5. Agathias, Histories 2.23-25
4. Thematic inventory of the Greek and Latin texts. 1. The Pantheon. 2. The Pandemonium. 3. Zoroaster. 4. Theology and doctrine. 5. Temple and cult. 6. Ritual. 7. Priests.
8. Social and ethical codes
5. Final observations.