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die jeder seelische Vorgang ?d?pend Diana herself he thinks it likely that
?troitement de la mati?re? (44; vgl. da she was originally ?a protective
gegen Arist. De an. 403a 15 . . . jaer? goddess of the woods and wilds?
a uaro?). Aber wenn man auch hier (p. 10) and that her other functions
eine letzte ?berzeugende Deutung der developed from this. Early Helleni
x?&agoi? aus dem Ganzen des aristo zation of her cult, as suggested most
telischen Denkens heraus vermi?t, so recently by Altheim, Griech. G?tter,
wird man doch vor allem in dem p. 93sqq., he thinks most unlikely,
Kapitel ?La th?orie de la Catharsis? suggesting the fifth century as a
einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Physio tentative date for its beginnings
logie des Aristoteles mit Dank an (p. 12). Of Egeria and Virbius he has
erkennen. little to say, refusing to be drawn
Frankfurt (Main) into long discussions of the often
Hermann Langerbeck fantastic theories concerning the latter.
The rex nemorensis is dealt with on
pp. 18?19; he somewhat inclines
towards the suggestion that he re
A. E. Gordon: The Cults of Aricia. presents a survival of a rex sacrorum,
Berkeley, California: Univ. of Cali and thinks, a little improbably, that
fornia Press 1934. VIII, 20 S. in classical times his functions were
(University of California Publi only ?a kind of police work, dealing
cations in Classical Archaeology.
2, 1.) with the beggars who are said to
have lined the cliuus Aricinus?. The
Professor Gordon's work is marked,
remaining cults and priesthoods, offi
as usual, by good sense and insistence
cial and other, are dealt with very
upon known facts rather than un briefly (pp. 14?17; 19sq.), the evi
proved, if plausible and ingenious, dence for them being slight.
hypotheses. This little monograph, St. Andrews H. J. Rose
which is a first instalment of a larger
work to deal with the cults of Latium
(Vetus and Adiectum) may claim to
Max Wellmann : Marcellus von Side
be a fairly complete sketch of what als Arzt und die Koiraniden
we definitely know about Aricia and des Hermes Trismegistos. Leip
its neighbourhood, so far as the cults zig: Dieterich 1934. 50 S. 4,50 M.
are concerned; it also includes a brief (Philologus. Suppl. 27, 2.)
mention of some of the leading ex In den letzten Jahren seines Lebens
planations offered by various scholars hat sich Max Wellmann, von der
of the more difficult points. sp?tantiken Medizin ausgehend, immer
After a brief account of the geo mehr mit der Erforschung der auf
graphy and history of the neigh magische Erkenntnis und Beherr
bourhood, the author deals with the schung der Natur gerichteten Literatur
cult of Diana. Here he stresses especi besch?ftigt, wie sie von hellenistischen
ally the archaeological data, including Kreisen aus im sp?ten Altertum, bei
the evidence (p. 7) that neither the den Arabern und bis ins abendl?ndi
temple nor any permanent structure sche Mittelalter sich verbreitet hat.
on that site is likely to antedate the Neben kleineren Aufs?tzen verdanken
fourth century B. C. He allows, how dieser Besch?ftigung vor allem seine
ever, that a grove and altar may Abhandlungen ?ber die Georgika des
have existed since the sixth, as indi Demokritos (AbhBerl. 1921, 4), die
cated by Cato op. Priscian (GL. 2, Physika des Bolos Demokritos (Abh
129, 11 == Orig. 2, 21 Jord.). Of Berl. 1928, 7) und den Physiologos
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