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Book: Chasing Down Religion

Chapter: Mithras in the Magical Papyri Religio-Historical Reflections on Various Magical Texts

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.22936

Blurb:

During the 'Second Hellenism' theologians and magicians accumulated the names of deities from different panthea in order to indicate the multiple powers of divinity, the same divinity that is analyzed by the great philosophers of this epoch. Ennio Sanzi analyzes different texts of the time.

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