CHAPTER I
Illustrations of Belief in Magic in Mediaeval and in Early Modern Times
CHAPTER II
Magic: Its Origins and Relations to Science
CHAPTER III
Pliny’s Natural History
I. The character of the work
II. Pliny’s discussion of magic
III. Illustrations of Pliny’s fundamental belief in magic
CHAPTER IV
Some Antecedents of the Belief in Magic in the Roman Empire
CHAPTER V
Belief in Magic in the Empire
I. General attitude
II. Philo of Alexandria and allegorical interpretation
III. Seneca’s Problems of Nature and divination
IV. Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos and astrology
V. The Hermetic Books and Occidtism
CHAPTER VI
Critics of Magic
I. Opponents of astrology
II. Cicero’s attack upon divination
CHAPTER VII
The Last Century of the Empire
CHAPTER VIII
Conclusion