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Rethinking the Gods : Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period.
Studies the dominant philosophical reflections on religion and the pantheon in the Post-Hellenistic period.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Greek culture in the Roman world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; RETHINKING THE GODS; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE; CHANGES IN RELIGIOUS MENTALITY?; 'ANCIENT WISDOM' AND 'COSMIC HIERARCHY'; PART I Ancient wisdom; CHAPTER 1 Tracing the origins: Ancients, philosophers and mystery cults; VARRO AND ANCIENT WISDOM; MYSTERY CULTS AND SECRECY; PHILOSOPHY AND ANCIENT WISDOM; CHAPTER 2 Plutarch of Chaeronea: 'History as a basis for a philosophy that has theology as its end'; ON THE FESTIVAL OF IMAGES AT PLATAEA; ON ISIS AND OSIRIS.
- THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND SUPERSTITIONCHAPTER 3 Numenius: Philosophy as a hidden mystery; MASTERS OF CONCEALMENT IN PHILOSOPHY; 'PEOPLE OF RENOWN'; CHAPTER 4 Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius and the rhetoric of ancient wisdom; DIO'S BORYSTHENITICUS; APULEIUS' METAMORPHOSES; PART II Cosmic hierarchy; CHAPTER 5 Towards the pantheon as the paradigm of order; POSIDONIUS AND THE NATURAL HIERARCHY; 'NATURAL RULERS'; KINGSHIP: VIRTUE AND HIERARCHY; THE PANTHEON AS THE IDEAL HIERARCHY; CHAPTER 6 The Great King of Persia and his satraps: Ideal and ideology; MAXIMUS OF TYRE; PSEUDO-ARISTOTLE, ON THE WORLD.
- AELIUS ARISTIDES AND THE 'ARCHIMAGE' OF THE GREAT KINGCHAPTER 7 Dio Chrysostom: Virtue and structure in the kingship orations; THE THIRD KINGSHIP ORATION; FIRST KINGSHIP ORATION; CHAPTER 8 Plutarch: A benevolent hierarchy of gods and men; METAPHYSICAL AND POLITICAL ORDER; DEMONS: TOP-DOWN AND BOTTOM-UP INTERPRETATIONS; SUPERSTITION: GOD IS NOT A TYRANT; THE PERSIAN GREAT KING AND ANTI-STOIC POLEMIC; PART III Polemic and prejudice: challenging the discourse; CHAPTER 9 Lucian, Epicureanism and strategies of satire; EPICUREAN ATHEISM.
- EXPLOITING STEREOTYPES FOR SATIRE: ALEXANDER THE FALSE PROPHET AND ICAROMENIPPUSA DISORDERED WORLD; CHAPTER 10 Philo of Alexandria: Challenging Graeco-Roman culture; MYSTERY CULTS AND TRUTH; THE GREAT KING OF PERSIA AND HIS SATRAPS; JOSEPH AS A NATURAL LEADER; CHAPTER 11 Celsus and Christian superstition; CHRISTIANITY AND THE 'LEAGUE OF NATIONS'; IGNORANCE AND VICE; THE COSMIC HIERARCHY; Epilogue; THE POST-HELLENISTIC CONCEPT OF RELIGION; BEYOND THE POST-HELLENISTIC DISCOURSE ON RELIGION; Bibliography; SOURCES; MODERN LITERATURE; Index.