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Notes

  1. See Kroll 1895; Des Places 1971; Majercik 1989.

  2. Smith 1993, F303 = Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, IV.7.

  3. I am indebted to Graham John Wheeler (2020) for information on the exciting afterlife of the Oracles. Among the more charming episodes noted by Wheeler was Éliphas Lévi’s 1854 attempt to summon the soul of the neo-Pythagorean philosopher and wonder-worker Apollonius of Tyana through a ritual employing formulas drawn from the Oracles.

  4. Cf. Iamblichus, De Myst. III.20, see Clarke et al. 2003, p.171.

  5. Diomedes, Ars Grammatica (Grammatici Latini, ed. H Keil (Leipzig 1857–80) 1), 299.19–23. Cited and translated in Browning 2000, p.858.

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Baltzly, D. Jamming with the Gods—Reflections on Writing the History of Late Antique Platonism. SOPHIA 60, 225–231 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-020-00821-5

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