Pagan Ideas of Immortality During the Early Roman Empire

by Clifford Herschel Moore

[28.] Eph. Arch., iii (1883), p. 81, 8.

[29.] On these and other oriental gods, see F. Cumont, The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism, Chicago, 1911; also G. Showerman, The Great Mother of the Gods, 1901; Hepding, Attis, 1903; W. Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, 2 vols., 1911; G. A. Reisner, The Egyptian Conception of Immortality, Ingersoll Lecture for 1911; F. Cumont, Textes et Monuments relatifs aux Mystères de Mithra, 2 vols., 1894-1900; Id., Les Mystères de Mithra, 2 ed., 1902; English translation, 1910.

[30.] Apuleius, Metamorphoses, xi, 23.

[31.] Enn., iv, 7.

[32.] Cf. Plato, Rep., 364 B ff.; Demosth., xviii, 259; Apul., Met., viii, 24 ff.

[33.] R. H. Charles, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life in Israel, in Judaism, and in Christianity, London, 1899, is a convenient book, but one which must be used with caution.

[34.] A. Harnack, Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte, i, 4th ed., 1909; English translation from the third German edition, 1901; G. B. Stevens, The Theology of the New Testament, 1903; H. Holtzmann, Lehrbuch der neutestamentlichen Theologie, 2 vols., 2d ed., 1911.

[35.] Rep., ii, 363 D.

[36.] Apol., 41.

[37.] It should be said that even in the earliest period Christian baptism had certain magical notions attached to it; not, however, the belief that it secured immortality.