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000847376 050_4 $$aB171$$b.N84 2011
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000847376 1001_ $$aNuffelen, Peter van.
000847376 24510 $$aRethinking the gods$$h[electronic resource] :$$bphilosophical readings of religion in the post-Hellenistic period /$$cPeter van Nuffelen.
000847376 260__ $$aCambridge ;$$aNew York :$$bCambridge University Press,$$c2011.
000847376 300__ $$aviii, 273 p.
000847376 4901_ $$aGreek culture in the Roman world
000847376 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000847376 5058_ $$aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Ancient Wisdom: 1. Tracing the origins: ancients, philosophers, and mystery cults; 2. Plutarch of Chaeronea: 'History as a basis for a philosophy that has theology as its end'; 3. Numenius: philosophy as a hidden mystery; 4. Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius and the rhetoric of ancient wisdom; Part II. Cosmic Hierarchy: 5. Towards the pantheon as the paradigm of order; 6. The Great King of Persia and his satraps: ideal and ideology; 7. Dio Chrysostom: virtue and structure in the Kingship Orations; 8. Plutarch: a benevolent hierarchy of gods and men; Part III. Polemic and Prejudice: Challenging the Discourse: 9. Lucian, Epicureanism and strategies of satire; 10. Philo of Alexandria: challenging Greco-Roman culture; 11. Celsus and Christian superstition; Epilogue.
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000847376 520__ $$a"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"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000847376 650_0 $$aPhilosophy, Ancient$$xHistory.
000847376 650_0 $$aReligion$$xPhilosophy$$xHistory.
000847376 830_0 $$aGreek culture in the Roman world.
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