BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Foreword.
Chapter 2.Pliny’s Natural History.
I.Its place in the history of science.
II.Its experimental tendency.
III.Pliny’s account of magic.
IV.The science of the Magi.
V.Pliny’s magical science.
Chapter 3.Seneca and Ptolemy: Natural Divination and Astrology.
Chapter 4.Galen.
I.The man and his times.
II.His medicine and experimental science.
III.His attitude toward magic.
Chapter 5.Ancient Applied Science and Magic.
Chapter 6.Plutarch’s Essays.
Chapter 7.Apuleius of Madaura.
Chapter 8.Philostratus’s Life of Apollonius of Tyana.
Chapter 9.Literary and Philosophical Attacks upon Superstition.
Chapter 10.The Spurious Mystic Writings of Hermes, Orpheus, and Zoroaster.
Chapter 11.Neo-Platonism and its Relations to Astrology and Theurgy.
Chapter 12.Aelian, Solinus, and Horapollo.

BOOK I. THE ROMAN EMPIRE