TY - BOOK
AU - Nuffelen, Peter van
TI - Rethinking the gods philosophical readings of religion in the Post-Hellenistic period
ET - 1. publ.
PB - Cambridge Univ. Press
SN - 9781107012035
KW - Philosophy, Ancient
KW - Religion Philosophy History
KW - Religion
KW - Kosmologie
KW - Philosophie
KW - Geschichte 200 v.Chr. - 100
KW - Philosophy
KW - Church history
KW - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW - Kosmogonie
KW - Geschichte 200 v. Chr.-100
PY - 2011
N2 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-268) and index
N2 - 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.
BT - Greek culture in the Roman world
CY - Cambridge [u.a.]
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
ER -
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