Traditional and cosmic gods in later Plato and the early Academy / Vilius Bartninkas.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge classical studiesPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 286 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781009322638
- 113 23
- B398.C67 B3 2023
Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This volume sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods, which play a particularly important role in the later dialogues. This theological distinction ultimately collapsed as a result of debates about these ideas in the early Academy.
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