1. Conceptualization

2. Attitudes towards animals

3. Egyptian animal worship

4. Animal worship as a national symbol

5. Cambyses and Apis

1. The conception of Egypt in the fifth century B. C

2. Herodotus' conception of Egypt

3. The conception of Egypt in the fourth century B. C

4. Herodotus' conception of animal worship

5. The conception of animal worship in the fourth century B. C

1. Graeco-Egyptian relations in Ptolemaic Egypt

2. Ptolemaic policy towards animal worship

3. Diodorus of Sicily's conception of Egypt

4. Diodorus of Sicily on animal worship

5. The flight of the gods before Typhon

1. Rabbinic opinions

2. Conceptualization of animal worship by Hellenistic-Jewish authors

1. Augustus and Egypt

2. The attitude of the Roman authorities towards Egypt and the Egyptian religion from the reign of Tiberius up to the third century

3. Travels to Egypt in Roman times

4. Aspects of the conceptualization of Egypt among Roman writers of the first and second century A. D.

5. The third and fourth centuries A. D

1. The age of Augustus

2. From Pliny to Plutarch

3. Juvenal and Lucian

4. Aelian and his contemporaries

5. The Neoplatonists and the circle around Julian

1. Animal worship as the lowest point of degeneracy

2. Animal worship as an argument in apologetics

3. Total rejection of animal worship

4. Animal worship in Old Testament exegesis