The Chaldean Oracles
- Date of account
- late 2nd century CE
- Location
- Greek-speaking eastern Roman world
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Chaldean Oracles are fragmentary Greek theological verses associated with Julian the Theurgist and his father, active in the second century CE. Later Neoplatonists treated them as authoritative revelation concerning divine intellect, soul, matter, ritual ascent, and theurgy. The fragments matter for comparing prophetic authority, ritual philosophy, and the reception of esoteric poetry within late antique intellectual culture. No complete original text survives, and much of the wording is known through quotations and commentary. Traditional titles and attributions are therefore part of a complicated transmission history.
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