@article{847376,
      recid = {847376},
      author = {Nuffelen, Peter van.},
      title = {Rethinking the gods philosophical readings of religion in  the post-Hellenistic period / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge ;},
      pages = {viii, 273 p.},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Ancient philosophers had always been fascinated by  religion. From the first century BC onwards the  traditionally hostile attitude of Greek and Roman  philosophy was abandoned in favour of the view that  religion was a source of philosophical knowledge. This book  studies that change, not from the usual perspective of the  history of religion, but as part of the wider tendency of  Post-Hellenistic philosophy to open up to external,  non-philosophical sources of knowledge and authority. It  situates two key themes, ancient wisdom and cosmic  hierarchy, in the context of Post-Hellenistic philosophy  and traces their reconfigurations in contemporary  literature and in the polemic between Jews, Christians and  pagans. Overall, Post-Hellenistic philosophy displayed a  relatively high degree of unity in its ideas on religion,  which should not be reduced to a preparation for  Neoplatonism"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/847376},
}