Edwyn Bevan

Consequently, I have added a new chapter at this point and raised the number of stages to five.

My friend, Mr. E.E. Genner, has kindly enabled me to correct two or three errors in the first edition, and I owe special thanks to my old pupil, Professor E.R. Dodds, for several interesting observations and criticisms on points connected with Plotinus and Sallustius.

Otherwise, I have altered little.

I am only sorry to have left the book so long out of print.

And even where we get away from fragments and reconstructions and reach definite treatises with or without authors' names, I cannot pretend to feel anything like the same clearness about the true meaning of a passage in Philo or the Corpus Hermeticum that one normally feels in a writer of the classical period.

Consequently, in this essay I think I have hugged my modern authorities rather close and seldom expressed an opinion for which I could not find some fairly authoritative backing, my debt being particularly great to Reitzenstein, Bousset, and the brilliant Hellenistische Römische Kultur of P. Wendland.

I must also thank my old pupil, Mr. Edwin Bevan, who was kind enough to read this book in proof for some valuable criticisms.

The subject is one of such extraordinary interest that I offer no apology for calling further attention to it.

Consequently, I have added a new chapter at this point and raised the number of stages to five.

My friend, Mr. E.E. Genner, has kindly enabled me to correct two or three errors in the first edition, and I owe special thanks to my old pupil, Professor E.R. Dodds, for several interesting observations and criticisms on points connected with Plotinus and Sallustius.

Otherwise, I have altered little.

I am only sorry to have left the book so long out of print.

And even where we get away from fragments and reconstructions and reach definite treatises with or without authors' names, I cannot pretend to feel anything like the same clearness about the true meaning of a passage in Philo or the Corpus Hermeticum that one normally feels in a writer of the classical period.

Consequently, in this essay I think I have hugged my modern authorities rather close, and seldom expressed an opinion for which I could not find some fairly authoritative backing, my debt being particularly great to Reitzenstein, Bousset, and the brilliant Hellenistische Röhmische Kultur of P. Wendland.

I must also thank my old pupil, Mr. Edwin Bevan, who was kind enough to read this book in proof, for some valuable criticisms.

The subject is one of such extraordinary interest that I offer no apology for calling further attention to it.

Consequently, I have added a new chapter at this point and raised the number of stages to five.

My friend, Mr. E. E. Genner, has kindly enabled me to correct two or three errors in the first edition; and I owe special thanks to my old pupil, Professor E. R. Dodds, for several interesting observations and criticisms on points connected with Plotinus and Sallustius.

Otherwise I have altered little.

I am only sorry to have left the book so long out of print.

And even where we get away from fragments and reconstructions and reach definite treatises with or without authors' names, I cannot pretend to feel anything like the same clearness about the true meaning of a passage in Philo or the Corpus Hermeticum that one normally feels in a writer of the classical period.

Consequently, in this essay I think I have hugged my modern authorities rather close and seldom expressed an opinion for which I could not find some fairly authoritative backing, my debt being particularly great to Reitzenstein, Bousset, and the brilliant Hellenistische Romische Kultur of P. Wendland.

I must also thank my old pupil, Mr. Edwin Bevan, who was kind enough to read this book in proof, for some valuable criticisms.

The subject is one of such extraordinary interest that I offer no apology for calling further attention to it.

Consequently, I have added a new chapter at this point and raised the number of stages to five.

My friend, Mr. E.E. Genner, has kindly enabled me to correct two or three errors in the first edition, and I owe special thanks to my old pupil, Professor E.R. Dodds, for several interesting observations and criticisms on points connected with Plotinus and Sallustius.

Otherwise, I have altered little.

I am only sorry to have left the book so long out of print.

Yet the subject is a very difficult one, owing to the scattered and chaotic nature of the sources, and even where we get away from fragments and reconstructions and reach definite treatises with or without authors' names, I cannot pretend to feel anything like the same clearness about the true meaning of a passage in Philo or the Corpus Hermeticum that one normally feels in a writer of the classical period.

Consequently, in this essay I think I have hugged my modern authorities rather close, and seldom expressed an opinion for which I could not find some fairly authoritative backing, my debt being particularly great to Reitzenstein, Bousset, and the brilliant Hellenistische Römishe Kultur of P. Wendland.

I must also thank my old pupil, Mr. Edwin Bevan, who was kind enough to read this book in proof, for some valuable criticisms.

The subject is one of such extraordinary interest that I offer no apology for calling further attention to it.

Consequently, I have added a new chapter at this point and raised the number of stages to five.

My friend, Mr. E. E. Genner, has kindly enabled me to correct two or three errors in the first edition, and I owe special thanks to my old pupil, Professor E. R. Dodds, for several interesting observations and criticisms on points connected with Plotinus and Sallustius.

Otherwise, I have altered little.

I am only sorry to have left the book so long out of print.

Consequently, in this essay I think I have hugged my modern authorities rather close and seldom expressed an opinion for which I could not find some fairly authoritative backing, my debt being particularly great to Reitzenstein, Bousset.

and the brilliant Hellenistische-Römische Kultur of P. Wendland.

I must also thank my old pupil, Mr. Edwin Bevan, who was kind enough to read this book in proof, for some valuable criticisms.

The subject is one of such extraordinary interest that I offer no apology for calling further attention to it.

Consequently, I have added a new chapter at this point and raised the number of stages to five.

My friend, Mr. E. E. Genner, has kindly enabled me to correct two or three errors in the first edition, and I owe special thanks to my old pupil, Professor E. R. Dodds, for several interesting observations and criticisms on points connected with Plotinus and Sallustius.

Otherwise, I have altered little.

I am only sorry to have left the book so long out of print.

And even where we get away from fragments and reconstructions and reach definite treatises with or without authors' names, I cannot pretend to feel anything like the same clearness about the true meaning of a passage in Philo or the Corpus Hermeticum that one normally feels in a writer of the classical period.

Consequently, in this essay I think I have hugged my modern authorities rather close and seldom expressed an opinion for which I could not find some fairly authoritative backing, my debt being particularly great to Reitzenstein, Bousset, and the brilliant Hellenistische-Römische Kultur of P. Wendland.

I must also thank my old pupil, Mr. Edwin Bevan, who was kind enough to read this book in proof, for some valuable criticisms.

The subject is one of such extraordinary interest that I offer no apology for calling further attention to it.