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Superstitions & Folk Belief

Inventing Superstition

From the Hippocratics to the Christians

by Dale B. Martin

A study of how Greek and Roman intellectuals constructed the idea of superstition, as fear of malevolent gods or daimones, and how Christians inherited and transformed it. Martin treats the concept as a product of elite philosophy and politics.

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