This presents several texts dealing with the philosophic view of The Gods and their providential relationship with manifestation. It includes, – Sallust, On The Gods and the World; The Pythagoric Sentences of Demophilus; Taurus, On the Eternity of the World; The Thema Mundi of Julius Firmicus Maternus; Ocellus Lucanus On the Nature of the Universe and On Laws; The Emperor Julian’s Oration to the Mother of the Gods; and To the Sovereign Sun; Theorems of Proclus, Synesius’ On Providence; and two essays by Taylor, On the Mythology of the Greeks; and On the Theology of the Greeks. An indispensable and accessible introduction to Greek theology.

Translated by Thomas Taylor