Arthur Nock
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- Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
- PhD Classics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arthur Darby Nock was an English classicist and theologian, regarded as a leading scholar in the history of religion. He was a professor at Harvard University from 1930 until his death. Early life Nock was born in Portsmouth, England in 1902 to Cornelius and Alice Mary Ann Nock. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School.
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- Conversion: The Old and the New in Religion from Alexander the Great to Augustine of Hippo (reprint Brown Classics in Judaica, 1988) (1933) (161)
- Essays on religion and the ancient world (1972) (124)
- Cremation and Burial in the Roman Empire (1932) (93)
- The Roman Army and the Roman Religious Year (1952) (88)
- Sarcophagi and Symbolism (1946) (76)
- The Exegesis of Timaeus 28 C (1962) (68)
- Notes on Ruler-Cult, I–IV (59)
- The Gild of Zeus Hypsistos (1936) (55)
- Early Gentile Christianity and its Hellenistic background (1964) (51)
- Die Strategie in der hellenistischen Zeit (1954) (51)
- The Emperor's Divine Comes (1947) (42)
- A Vision of Mandulis Aion (1934) (42)
- The Cult of Heroes (1944) (42)
- Religious attitudes of the ancient Greeks (1942) (27)
- Studies in the Graeco-Roman Beliefs of the Empire (25)
- Hermetica. The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus, Volume II. Notes on the Corpus Hermeticum (1927) (24)
- A Diis Electa: a Chapter in the Religious History of the Third Century (1930) (23)
- Epochs of Greek and Roman BiographyStudien zum antiken Synkretismus aus Iran und Griechenland (22)
- Deification and Julian (1957) (18)
- Hellenistic Mysteries and Christian Sacraments (1952) (17)
- The Genius of Mithraism (1937) (14)
- Fatalisme et Liberte Dans L'Antiquite Grecque: Recherches sur la Survivance De L'Argumentation Morale Antifataliste De Carneade Chez Les Philosophes Grecs et les Theologiens Chretiens des Quatre Premiers Siecles (1947) (12)
- Excavations at Olynthus. Part XI, Necrolynthia: A Study in Greek Burial Customs and Anthropology (1943) (12)
- The Vocabulary of the New Testament (1933) (12)
- Poseidon und die Entstehung des griechischen Gotterglaubens (1952) (11)
- Reallexikon fur Antike und Christentum: Sachworterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der antiken Welt (1948) (11)
- The Oxford classical dictionary (1971) (8)
- The Mother Goddess (1925) (8)
- A Feature of Roman Religion (1939) (8)
- Hermetica (1927) (8)
- Orient und griechische Philosophie (1926) (7)
- A Cabiric Rite (1941) (7)
- Greek Magical Papyri 1 (1929) (7)
- THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS (1960) (6)
- Concerning the gods and the universe (6)
- The Christian Sacramentum in Pliny and A Pagan Counterpart (1924) (5)
- Orphism or Popular Philosophy? (1940) (5)
- The Lyra of Orpheus (1927) (5)
- The Proem of Lucan (1926) (5)
- Gnostiques et gnosticisme (1926) (5)
- The Attic orgeones . The cult of heroes (1944) (5)
- Gott und Holle (1934) (4)
- A Monument to Saint Jerome: Essays on Some Aspects of His Life, Works, and Influence (1953) (4)
- Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, Vol. III: Zeus, God of the Dark Sky (Earthquakes, Clouds, Wind, Dew, Rain, Meteorites). Arthur Bernard Cook (1943) (3)
- The Sources of Diodorus (1962) (3)
- Maledictions et Violations de Tombes (1941) (3)
- The Problem of Zoroaster (1949) (3)
- The Historical Importance of Cult-Associations (1924) (3)
- Euhemerus van Messene (1951) (2)
- Excavations at Nessana, II: Literary Papyri. Lionel Casson , Ernest L. Hettich (1951) (2)
- Excavations at Minturnae. Volume II, Inscriptions. Part I, Republican Magistri (1935) (2)
- A Traditional Form in Religious Language (1924) (2)
- Book Review:La religion des Cathares: Etude sur le gnosticisme de la basse antiquite et du moyen age Hans Soderberg (1950) (2)
- Eros the Child (1924) (2)
- The Offerings of the Hyperboreans (1928) (2)
- Notes on Beliefs and Myths (2)
- Neotera, queen or goddess? (1953) (2)
- A COPTIC LIBRARY OF GNOSTIC WRITINGS (1958) (2)
- Manichaische Handschriften der Sammlung A. Chester Beatty (1936) (1)
- Traités XIII-XVIII ; Asclepius (1960) (1)
- Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua III: Denkmaler aus dem Rauhen KilikienZenon Papyri in the University of Michigan CollectionMagical Texts from a Bilingual Papyrus in the British Museum (1932) (1)
- Recherches sur les Confessions de Saint Augustin . By Pierre Courcelle. Pp. 300. Paris: E. de Boccard, 1950. Fr. 850. (1951) (1)
- Josephus and Christ (1929) (1)
- Varro and Orpheus (1929) (1)
- Untersuchungen zu den Knabenweihen (1960) (1)
- Corpus Hermeticum, Traites I-XVIII (1948) (1)
- Sapor I and the Apollo of Bryaxis (1962) (1)
- Book Review:La supplication d' action de graces chez les Romains Leon Halkin (1954) (1)
- PAGAN BAPTISMS IN TERTULLIAN (1927) (1)
- A Cult Ordinance in Verse (1958) (1)
- Tertullian and the Ahori (1950) (1)
- The End of the Rhesus (1926) (1)
- Nymphs and Nereids (1960) (1)
- A New Edition of the Hermetic Writings (1925) (1)
- Magical Notes (1925) (1)
- Necrology: Campbell Bonner (1955) (1)
- Proclus on Theology (1934) (1)
- Studien uber den italischen und den romischen Mars (1941) (1)
- Propertius II. 12 (1929) (1)
- Die altchristliche Grabeskunst . Ein Versuch der Einheitiichen Auslegung. Von Professor Paul Styger. München: Rösel und Pustet, 1927. Pp. 123 and 30 illustrations. 12 marks. (0)
- Diatagma Kaisaros. Die Inschrift von Nazareth und das Neue Testament (1939) (0)
- Book Review:Laktanz und die Kosmogonie des spatantiken Synkretismus Konstantin Vilhelmson (1942) (0)
- Die Weltreichsidee Alexanders des Grossen. Walther Kolbe (1938) (0)
- Einführung in die alte Geschichte. Hermann Bengtson (1950) (0)
- Untersuchungen über das anonyme Buch de uiris illusiribus . Von Hugo Behrens. Pp. 71. Heidelberg: Carl Winters Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1923. Paper, 4s. (1924) (0)
- Franz Sauter, Der römische Kaiserkult bei Martial und Statius (Tübinger Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, herausgegeben von J. Mewaldt, W. Schmid, O. Weinreich, 21). Stuttgart-Berlin: Kohlhammer, 1934. Pp. 178 + ix. RM. 9. (1935) (0)
- Inscriptiones Latinae Christianae Veteres . Edidit Ernestus Diehl. Vol. II., fasc. vi, vii; Vol. III. Pp. i-x + 401–516, i-vi + 618. Berlin: Weidmann, 1927–1931. (1932) (0)
- Die Kosmologie des Plinius . Mit zwei Exkursen H. von Vogt. Von Wilhelm Kroll. (Abhandlungen der schlesischen Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur. Geisteswissen-schaftliche Reihe. 3. Heft.) Pp. 92. Breslau: Marcus, 1930. (1932) (0)
- Orphicorum fragmenta . Collegit Otto Kern. Pp. x + 407. Berlin: Weidmann, 1922. 5s. 6d. (1924) (0)
- Theocritus II. 38 (1925) (0)
- Fritz Saxl, Mithras: Typengeschichtliche Untersuchungen . Berlin: Verlag Heinrich Keller, 1931. Pp. xi + 125, with 48 plates. M. 40. (1933) (0)
- Poseidonios . Von Karl Reinhardt. Pp. 476. Munich: C. H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1921. - Kosmos und Sympathie . Neue Untersuchungen über Poseidonios von Karl Reinhardt. Pp. viii + 420. Munich: Beck, 1926. Unbound, M. 18; bound, M. 20. (1927) (0)
- Passio SS. Machabaeorum. Die antike lateinische Ubersetzung des IV Makkabaerbuches (1940) (0)
- Pindars Stil . Von Franz Dornseiff. Pp. vi + 135. Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1921. (1925) (0)
- Tertullian and the a h oR I (1950) (0)
- Aus altrömischen Priesterbüchern. Eduard Norden (1942) (0)
- The Praises of Antioch (1954) (0)
- Hyperborean Offerings (1929) (0)
- Conversion. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (1933) (0)
- HTR volume 37 issue 1 Front matter (1944) (0)
- Les Papyrus Bouriant. Par Paul Collart. Pp. 254, with 4 collotype plates. Paris: Champion, 1926. 160 frs. (1928) (0)
- Sibyls and Seers (1929) (0)
- Korybas of the Haemonians (1926) (0)
- Thackery's Lexicon to Josephus (1932) (0)
- Book Review:Some Hellenistic Elements in Primitive Christianity Wilfred L. Knox (1948) (0)
- Book Review:Studies in Roman Literature, Culture and Religion H. Wagenvoort (1958) (0)
- Some Latin Spells. (1925) (0)
- Whittaker's Macrobius (1924) (0)
- Clarian Apollo (1929) (0)
- The Institution of the Imperial Cult in the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire (1937) (0)
- Philonis Alexandrini In Flaccum . Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, by Herbert Box. Pp. lxii+129. London, &c.: Oxford University Press, 1939. Cloth, 12s. 6d. (1940) (0)
- CORNFORD, F. M. Principium Sapientiae: The Origins of Greek Philosophical Thought. Edited by W. K. C. Guthrie. Pp. viii, 271. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1952. $5.00 (1953) (0)
- Corpus Hermeticum, Tome III: Fragments extraits de Stobee (I-XXII) (1955) (0)
- The Rhesus (1930) (0)
- Book Review:The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship Calvin W. McEwan (1936) (0)
- A Monument to Saint Jerome: Essays on Some Aspects of His Life, Works, and Influence. Edited by Francis X. Murphy, C.SS.R. Foreword by Cardinal Tisserant. (New York: Sheed and Ward. 1952. Pp. xv, 295. $4.50.) (1953) (0)
- A NOTE ON EP. AD DIOGNETUM X § I (1927) (0)
- H. J. Rose, Modern Methods in Classical Mythology. Three lectures delivered at University College, London, in February, 1930. St. Andrews: W. C. Henderson & Son, Ltd., University Press, 1930. Pp. 50. 2s. 6d. (1932) (0)
- C. Marót: Refrigerium (Acta Litterarum ac Scientiarum Reg. Universitatis Hung. Francisco-Josephinae. Sectio Geographica-Historica. Tom. III. Fasc. 2. Pp. 95–163). Szeged, 1937. Paper, P. 2. (1938) (0)
- Joseph Christiaan Antonius Van Herten. Θρησκε α Ε λ εια κ της. Bijdrage tot de kennis der religieuze terminologie in het Grieksch : with a summary in English. Pp. 105. Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1934. Paper. (1935) (0)
- Volume Information (1965) (0)
- A New Magical Papyrus (1926) (0)
- The Oxford Classical Dictionary: Classical Studies at the Mid-Century. A Review (1951) (0)
- Anna Elizabeth Wilhelm-Hooijbergh, Peccatum: Sin and Guilt in Ancient Rome (Diss. Utrecht). Groningen, Djakarta: J. B. Wolters, 1954. Pp. XI + 125. Price not stated. (1955) (0)
- Philo , with an English translation by F. H. Colson. Vol. VI. Pp. xviii + 6II. (Loeb Classical Library.) London: Heinemann, 1935. Cloth, 10s. (leather, 12s. 6d.). (1936) (0)
- Old Christian Inscriptions (1927) (0)
- Cyril Bailey, Religion in Virgil . Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1935. Pp. 337. 15s. (1936) (0)
- The Loeb Philo (1943) (0)
- Book Review:The Epistle to Diognetus: The Greek Text with Introduction, Translation, and Notes Henry G. Meecham (1951) (0)
- De memoria alterius libri Maccabaeorum . By V. Kappler. Pp. 68. Göttingen: Dieterich, 1929. (1932) (0)
- Bibliography: Graeco-Roman Egypt A. Papyri (1924—1926) (1927) (0)
- The Art of Terence. By G. Norwood. Blackwell: Oxford, 1923. pp. 156. 7s. 6d. net. (1922) (0)
- Book Review:Opuscula selecta, linguis Anglica, Francogallica, Germanica conscripta Martin P. Nilsson (1953) (0)
- Philo . With an English translation by F. H. Colson and G. H. Whittaker. In ten volumes. Volume IV. Pp. vii + 582. (Loeb Classical Library.) London: Heinemann, 1932. Cloth, 10s. (leather, 12s. 6d.). (1934) (0)
- Johanna Christine Bolkestein: Οσιος en E σεβ ς. Bijdrage tut de godsdienstige en sedelijke Terminologie de Grieken. Avecun résumé en français. Pp. 225. Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1936. Paper. (1938) (0)
- Elizabeth Visser: Göiter und Kulte im Ptolemäischen Alexandrien . Pp. 131. (Allard Pierson Stichting. Archaeologisch-historische Bijdragen, V.) Amsterdam: Noordhollandsche Uitgevers Mij., 1938. Cloth. (1939) (0)
- The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Ed. M. Cary, J. D. Denniston, J. Wight Duff, A. D. Nock, W. D. Ross and H. H. Scullard. Pp. xix + 971. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949. 50s. (1949) (0)
- Pagan Regeneration: A study of mystery initiations in the Graeco-Roman world. By Harold R. Willoughby. Chicago, Ill. : Chicago University Press, 1929. Pp. xi + 307. 13s. 6d. (0)
- Neotera (1948) (0)
- The Significant Name in Terence . By James Curtiss Austin (University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, VII. 4; November, 1921). Pp. 130. University of Illinois Press. Paper, $2. (1924) (0)
- Philo , with an English translation by F. H. Colson. In nine volumes. Volume 7. Pp. xviii + 641. (Loeb Classical Library.) London: Heinemann (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), 1937. Cloth, Ios. (1938) (0)
- Philo with an English translation by F. H. Colson, in ten volumes. Volume VIII. Pp. xxi+458. (Loeb Classical Library.) London: Heinemann, 1939. Cloth, 10s. (leather, 125. 6d.). (1940) (0)
- Philo , with an English translation by F. H. Colson and G. H. Whittaker. In nine volumes. V. Pp. vii + 626. London: Heinemann, 1934. Cloth, 10s. (leather, 12s. 6d.). (1935) (0)
- A Greek Cryptogram . by Arthur S. Hunt. (From Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. XV.) Pp. 10, with one plate. London: Milford. Paper, 2s. net. (1929) (0)
- Two Attic Epitaphs (0)
- Torture By Vinegar (1927) (0)
- Gnosticism (1964) (0)
- Select Passages Illustrating Mithraism (1927) (0)
- The Acts of the Pagan Martyrs: Ada Alexandrinorum. Edited with commentary by Herbert A. Musurillo, S.J. Pp. xiii + 299. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. 35s. (1956) (0)
- Later Greek Religion (1928) (0)
- The Politics of Philo (1940) (0)
- Book Review: The Date of Easter and Other Christian Festivals (1928) (0)
- Old Christian Inscriptions in Latin (1925) (0)
- F. H. Colson: Philo. With an English translation. Volume x: The Embassy to Gaius ; Indexes to volumes i–x. Pp. xxxviii+520. London: Heinemann, 1962. Cloth, 18s. net. (1963) (0)
- The Augustan Restoration (1925) (0)
- Downey’s Antioch : A Review (1963) (0)
- Religious Development from Vespasian to Trajan (1928) (0)
- HTR volume 25 issue 4 Front matter (1932) (0)
- Book Review:Asclepius: A Collection and Interpretation of the Testimonies Emma J. Edelstein, Ludwig Edelstein (1950) (0)
- Franz Cumont, Lux Perpetua . Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1949. Pp. XXXIII + 524 with frontispiece and 9 illustrations. Price not stated (c. £2 5s.). (1950) (0)
- TWO NOTES ON THE ASCLEPIUS (0)
- De fragmenti Suetoniani de Grammaticis et Rhetoribus codicum nexu et fide . By Rodney Potter Robinson ( University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature , V. 4; November, 1920). Large 8vo. Pp. 195. 1922. Paper, $2. (1924) (0)
- Traités I-XII (1960) (0)
- C. Suetoni Tranquilli de grammaticis et rhetoribus. Edidit apparatu et commentario criticis instruxit Rodney Potter Robinson. Pp. x + 80. Paris: Édouard Champion, 1925. (1927) (0)
- Flavius Josèphe: Contre Apion . Texte établi et annoté par Théodore Reinach et traduit par I.Éon Blum. Pp. xxxix+264. Paris: ‘Les Belles Lettres,’ 1930. Paper, 28 fr. (1932) (0)
- Book Review:Le culte imperial dans la peninsule iberique d'Auguste a Diocletien Robert Etienne (1962) (0)
- Book Review: C. Callewaert, J.C.D. Liturgicae Institutiones. Tractatus Primus. De Sacra Liturgia Universum (1928) (0)
- Jérôme Carcopino, Aspects Mystiques de la Rome Païenne . Paris: L'Artisan du Livre, 1941. Pp. 315 with 4 figs. (1948) (0)
- Dominique Sourdel, Les Cultes du Hauran à l'Époque romaine (Institut français d'archéologie de Beyrouth: Bibliothèque archéologique et historique, Tome LIII). Paris: Geuthner, 1952. Pp. vi, 136 and 6 plates. No price stated. (1953) (0)
- Joseph Bidez et Franz Cumont, Les Mages hellénisés. Zoroastre, Ostanès et Hystaspe d'après la Tradition grecque . Tome I, Introduction. Tome II, Les Textes. Paris : Société d'Éditions ‘Les Belles Lettres’, 1938. Pp. xii, 297, 412. 120 francs. (1940) (0)
- Les cultes indigènes en Carie. Alfred Laumonier (1960) (0)
- Jupiter Heliopolitain, Nova et Vetera (1939) (0)
- Usener und Wilamowltz. Ein Briefwechsel 1870–1905. Pp. 70. Leipzig: Teubner, 1934. Paper, M. 3.60. (1935) (0)
- Hermes der Seelenfuehrer: das Mythologem vom maennlichen Lebensursprung (1948) (0)
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