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Hesiod forerunner of Greek cosmogonies of the evolutionary type As long as the renewal ritual peculiar to all creation myths persisted, it was impossible to escape from a mythical and circular time which implied an eternal recurrence of the same events. In comparing Hesiod's "Theogony" with the "Enuma Elish" myth, one notices that in Hesiod for the first time, the events unfold in a linear time and sequence, that which renders possible the disappearance of the renewal ritual. By that, Hesiod is the forerunner of the evolutionary cosmogonies of the Presocratics.

The Dreams of Atia and Octavius. A Note about the Relations between Augustus and Egypt In Suetonius ("Divus Augustus", 94, 4-5) and Dio Cassius (45, 1, 2-3) are preserved two versions of a narrative borrowed from a lost book, the "Theolegumena" by Asclepiades of Mendes, narrative introducing Octavius, in the same time, as the son of Apollo, as a replica of Alexander and as an Egyptian Pharaoh. It is probably a text written in Egypt between 30 & 27 ВС, to serve there as an ideological vindication of the roman conquest, but perhaps equally used in Italy by Octavius, ca. 28, for propaganda purposes. The reasons of its writing are compared to the ones having probably inspired Alexander's pilgrimage to Siwa and the elaboration of the narrative preserved in Alexander's "Romance", I, 1-14.

Buddhist anthropology vis-à-vis modern philosophy and contemporary neurophysiology The author reminds us the outlines of Buddhist doctrine. Then he examines how a Buddhist reader could react to some examples of Modern Philosophy (Descartes) and also Analytical Philosophy (Wittgenstein). Besides he points out the new prospects of contemporary neurophysiology, such as they are depicted in Prof. Changeux's recent book, "Neuronal Man" (New York, Pantheon Books, 1985). This provides us with a different idea of man. What a Buddhist monk will say, will he raise some objection of principle or not ? Given that we usually think of religion and spiritualism as closely linked to each other, the answer to this question is both unexpected and enlightening.