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Guide to Lactantius of northern Africa
This post is a guide for reading through ethnographic passages in Divine Institutes by Lactantius of northern Africa (late third-early fourth century CE): Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian wisdom from Hermes Trimegistos and the Sibyls – Divine Institutes 1.6 (link) Taurians, Gauls, and Romans engaging in human sacrifice – 1.21 (link) Persian Magians as deceivers – 2.14, […]
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