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Our divine double /

What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, providing a distinctive understanding of the sel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stang, Charles M., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Narcissus and his double
  • Reading Plato's many doubles
  • Thomas, who is called "twin"
  • Syzygies, twins, and mirrors
  • Mani and his twin-companion
  • Plotinus and the doubled intellect
  • Whither the divine double?