Sarah Iles Johnston
Author of Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature
About the Author
Sarah Iles Johnston is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University. Her many books include Ancient Greek Divination and, with Fritz Graf, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets.
Works by Sarah Iles Johnston
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (1990) 114 copies, 3 reviews
Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece (1989) 102 copies, 1 review
Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art (1997) — Editor — 44 copies, 1 review
Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (2005) — Editor — 25 copies
Ethics and Law Codes 1 copy
Deities and Demons 1 copy
Sin, Pollution, and Purity 1 copy
Sacred Texts and Canonicity 1 copy
Myth 1 copy
Writing and Religion 1 copy
Crossroads 1 copy
Associated Works
Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) (2008) — Contributor — 25 copies
The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2010) — Contributor — 20 copies
Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World) (2019) — Contributor — 16 copies
Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (2003) — Contributor — 11 copies
Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean) (2018) — Contributor — 6 copies
Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus (2014) — Contributor — 4 copies
The world of ancient magic : papers from the first International Samson Eitrem Seminar at the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 4-8 May 1997 (1998) — Contributor — 4 copies
Reflections on religious individuality Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian texts and practices (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies
Arethusa (vol 48 no 2) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 48 no 3) — Contributor — 1 copy
Transactions of the American Philological Association. Volume 122 (1992) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 34 no 1) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 45 no 2) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 41 no 3) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- 1957
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- Education
- University of Kansas (BS|Journalism|1979)
University of Kansas (BA|Classics|1980)
Cornell University (MA|1983)
Cornell University (PhD|1987) - Nationality
- USA
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Reviews
A grab-bag of short historical and analytic treatments of the major ancient religions. The one on Zoroastrianism is particularly good.
This is an erudite volume that requires considerable background to grasp the complexity of ancient religion.
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies) by Sarah Iles Johnston
Instead of a review, a devotional "rhyme-poem" to thank the writer of this greatly researched book.
Key of virtue, poureth the soul, opener of gateways, chaser with demon-dogs,
Archeress of nekroi, drakaiana Artemis, blesser of the purified souls,
Red for divine fire, white for aethyr, black for hylic chtonic abysmal chaotic jaw,
When lions roared across the Tartarus, ‘tis formless eyeless chaos,
Marked me for a Saturnine spirit without a soul - wrapped in niger cloak
You were the first to show more open the shadows to the seer,
Isis after trials - unveiled the divine worlds,
Serpent of Eileithyia incised upon my neck, it ascends from water
Into the divine world’s embrace, Mithraic cross upon my forehead,
Magna Mater and Helios with Muses whisper thunderously:
“Thou shall be free”.
Mask of Hekate is shown only to a child, or a tormented devotee
For the profane she turns into swirling maelstorm of Physis’ terror
That casts them into ignorance of dealing with Gods,
Whereupon they are a mocking stock of everything they think they see.
Gods are seen in the sky, stars, heart and high intellect,
They manifest in great synthony of hopeless pain, great love,
And mystes’ constantly observant eyes.
If there is no chalice coined of a heroic life - how do you imagine
That wine is fulled with ambrosia by the immortal company?
They great Gods never manifest as luring tempting images of chtonic deceptions,
When you close your eyes at night. Or as simulacra and nightmares that torment some,
Let me give you an advice - when shadow terrorize you at night, catch the golden thread, do not be afraid, but follow the silver Pythagorean path,
Propitiated the Erynies’ dead, befriend the better part in demons,
Call for protection against the combustible, volatile part
And in apothropaic theurgy honor her, as her lilly’s grow with delight,
Isis will show you the path, once the ordeals are done,
Hekate will open the cosmic gateways, if verily thy desire
Is to cast the Earthly, the unworthy, the undivine,
And leave it to be devoured by the howling ones. show less
Key of virtue, poureth the soul, opener of gateways, chaser with demon-dogs,
Archeress of nekroi, drakaiana Artemis, blesser of the purified souls,
Red for divine fire, white for aethyr, black for hylic chtonic abysmal chaotic jaw,
When lions roared across the Tartarus, ‘tis formless eyeless chaos,
Marked me for a Saturnine spirit without a soul - wrapped in niger cloak
You were the first to show more open the shadows to the seer,
Isis after trials - unveiled the divine worlds,
Serpent of Eileithyia incised upon my neck, it ascends from water
Into the divine world’s embrace, Mithraic cross upon my forehead,
Magna Mater and Helios with Muses whisper thunderously:
“Thou shall be free”.
Mask of Hekate is shown only to a child, or a tormented devotee
For the profane she turns into swirling maelstorm of Physis’ terror
That casts them into ignorance of dealing with Gods,
Whereupon they are a mocking stock of everything they think they see.
Gods are seen in the sky, stars, heart and high intellect,
They manifest in great synthony of hopeless pain, great love,
And mystes’ constantly observant eyes.
If there is no chalice coined of a heroic life - how do you imagine
That wine is fulled with ambrosia by the immortal company?
They great Gods never manifest as luring tempting images of chtonic deceptions,
When you close your eyes at night. Or as simulacra and nightmares that torment some,
Let me give you an advice - when shadow terrorize you at night, catch the golden thread, do not be afraid, but follow the silver Pythagorean path,
Propitiated the Erynies’ dead, befriend the better part in demons,
Call for protection against the combustible, volatile part
And in apothropaic theurgy honor her, as her lilly’s grow with delight,
Isis will show you the path, once the ordeals are done,
Hekate will open the cosmic gateways, if verily thy desire
Is to cast the Earthly, the unworthy, the undivine,
And leave it to be devoured by the howling ones. show less
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (Homage Series) (American Philological Association American Classical Studies Series, Band 21) by Sarah Iles Johnston
Instead of a review, a devotional "rhyme-poem" to thank the writer of this greatly researched book.
Key of virtue, poureth the soul, opener of gateways, chaser with demon-dogs,
Archeress of nekroi, drakaiana Artemis, blesser of the purified souls,
Red for divine fire, white for aethyr, black for hylic chtonic abysmal chaotic jaw,
When lions roared across the Tartarus, ‘tis formless eyeless chaos,
Marked me for a Saturnine spirit without a soul - wrapped in niger cloak
You were the first to show more open the shadows to the seer,
Isis after trials - unveiled the divine worlds,
Serpent of Eileithyia incised upon my neck, it ascends from water
Into the divine world’s embrace, Mithraic cross upon my forehead,
Magna Mater and Helios with Muses whisper thunderously:
“Thou shall be free”.
Mask of Hekate is shown only to a child, or a tormented devotee
For the profane she turns into swirling maelstorm of Physis’ terror
That casts them into ignorance of dealing with Gods,
Whereupon they are a mocking stock of everything they think they see.
Gods are seen in the sky, stars, heart and high intellect,
They manifest in great synthony of hopeless pain, great love,
And mystes’ constantly observant eyes.
If there is no chalice coined of a heroic life - how do you imagine
That wine is fulled with ambrosia by the immortal company?
They great Gods never manifest as luring tempting images of chtonic deceptions,
When you close your eyes at night. Or as simulacra and nightmares that torment some,
Let me give you an advice - when shadow terrorize you at night, catch the golden thread, do not be afraid, but follow the silver Pythagorean path,
Propitiated the Erynies’ dead, befriend the better part in demons,
Call for protection against the combustible, volatile part
And in apothropaic theurgy honor her, as her lilly’s grow with delight,
Isis will show you the path, once the ordeals are done,
Hekate will open the cosmic gateways, if verily thy desire
Is to cast the Earthly, the unworthy, the undivine,
And leave it to be devoured by the howling ones. show less
Key of virtue, poureth the soul, opener of gateways, chaser with demon-dogs,
Archeress of nekroi, drakaiana Artemis, blesser of the purified souls,
Red for divine fire, white for aethyr, black for hylic chtonic abysmal chaotic jaw,
When lions roared across the Tartarus, ‘tis formless eyeless chaos,
Marked me for a Saturnine spirit without a soul - wrapped in niger cloak
You were the first to show more open the shadows to the seer,
Isis after trials - unveiled the divine worlds,
Serpent of Eileithyia incised upon my neck, it ascends from water
Into the divine world’s embrace, Mithraic cross upon my forehead,
Magna Mater and Helios with Muses whisper thunderously:
“Thou shall be free”.
Mask of Hekate is shown only to a child, or a tormented devotee
For the profane she turns into swirling maelstorm of Physis’ terror
That casts them into ignorance of dealing with Gods,
Whereupon they are a mocking stock of everything they think they see.
Gods are seen in the sky, stars, heart and high intellect,
They manifest in great synthony of hopeless pain, great love,
And mystes’ constantly observant eyes.
If there is no chalice coined of a heroic life - how do you imagine
That wine is fulled with ambrosia by the immortal company?
They great Gods never manifest as luring tempting images of chtonic deceptions,
When you close your eyes at night. Or as simulacra and nightmares that torment some,
Let me give you an advice - when shadow terrorize you at night, catch the golden thread, do not be afraid, but follow the silver Pythagorean path,
Propitiated the Erynies’ dead, befriend the better part in demons,
Call for protection against the combustible, volatile part
And in apothropaic theurgy honor her, as her lilly’s grow with delight,
Isis will show you the path, once the ordeals are done,
Hekate will open the cosmic gateways, if verily thy desire
Is to cast the Earthly, the unworthy, the undivine,
And leave it to be devoured by the howling ones. show less
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