Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies)

Oxford University Press

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UPC:
9781555404277
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
5/1/1990
Author:
Johnston, Sarah Iles
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Edition:
1
Pages:
200
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Hekate is best known to classicists and historians of religion as the horrific patroness of witches. But from the Hellenistic age onwards, some Greek and Roman philosophers and magicians portrayed her quite differently, allotting to her such duties as ensouling the cosmos and the individual men within it, forming the connective boundary between the divine and human worlds, and facilitating such communication between man and god as could lead eventually to the individual soul's release. She was celestial and potentially beneficent, rather than chthonic and threatening.