Later Greek religion

Preface

GRATEFUL acknowledgment is due to the authors and publishers of the following translations for permission to insert extracts from them in the present volume:

Sir James Frazer, Pausanias’s Description of Greece (Macmillan); Dr. G. H. Rendall, Marcus Aurelius Antonius, To Himself (Macmillan); Mr. P. E. Matheson, Epictetus (Oxford University Press); Mr. H. W. Fowler, Lucian (Oxford University Press); Professor Gilbert Murray, translation of passage of Lucretius in Five

Stages of Greek Religion (Oxford University Press).

I have also to thank Messrs, Macmillan for permission to insert the translation of Cleanthes’s Hymn by Walter Pater in Plato and Platonism, and an extract from E, 5. Shuckburgh’s Po/ybius, and to thank the Oxford University Press for permission to insert an extract from the late Mr. Walter Scott’s translation in his Hermetica.

Finally I have to thank Mr. Stephen Mackenna for allowing me to include some passages from his translation of Plotinus, and Mr. E. R. Debenham, who has an interest in the copyright of Mr. Mackenna’s translation.

Contents

INTRODUCTION .

. THE Earty Stoics:

(1) Zeno of Citium