Rethinking the Gods: Philosophical Readings of Religion in the Post-Hellenistic Period

ISBN: 9781139181204 出版年：2011 页码：284 Peter Van Nuffelen Cambridge University Press

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.