Rethinking the gods : philosophical readings of religion in the post-Hellenistic period
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Nuffelen, Peter van.
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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viii, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
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Greek culture in the Roman world
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| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Ancient Wisdom: 1. Tracing the origins: ancients, philosophers, and mystery cults; 2. Plutarch of Chaeronea: 'History as a basis for a philosophy that has theology as its end'; 3. Numenius: philosophy as a hidden mystery; 4. Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius and the rhetoric of ancient wisdom; Part II. Cosmic Hierarchy: 5. Towards the pantheon as the paradigm of order; 6. The Great King of Persia and his satraps: ideal and ideology; 7. Dio Chrysostom: virtue and structure in the Kingship Orations; 8. Plutarch: a benevolent hierarchy of gods and men; Part III. Polemic and Prejudice: Challenging the Discourse: 9. Lucian, Epicureanism and strategies of satire; 10. Philo of Alexandria: challenging Greco-Roman culture; 11. Celsus and Christian superstition; Epilogue.
