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Eidinow, Esther; Kindt, Julia; Osborne, Robin; Tor, Shaul

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“…The trend today is to stress that questioning religion and developing theology in ancient Greece is far more widespread as opposed to previously. Eidinow (2016) provides valuable discussions on how and why we actually can talk of theology in archaic and Classical Greece. The views of religion in Classical Athens, I would say, were much more diverse than what has been previously recognized and that makes room for the occurrence of atheism as well as deep personal devotion.…”

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“…In what follows, I side with a recent trend in the study of ancient Greek religion in which, the stereotype consisting of strictly regulated rituals contrasted to a virtually non-existent intellectual side is challenged. (Kindt 2012: 1-11;Osborne 2015;Kearns 2015;Harrison 2015;Eidinow et al 2016). As Osborne (2015) and Kearns (2015) remark, both ritual practice and belief-system were far more flexible than usual.…”

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Handbook of Leaving Religion

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“…4 Tor (2017) 2. Over the last few decades, scholarship on Greek religion and literature has been characterised by a pervasive tendency to separate cult and ritual (the so-called 'lived religion') from literary and philosophical theologies, which have been relegated to the status of purely artificial constructs with little or no bearing on Greek religious life (see Kindt (2016) 24-8 on this phenomenon). My analysis builds on a number of recent contributions which have challenged such categorisations of Greek religion, and called for a more textured approach to the question of the relationship between religion, literature and philosophy: see notably Harrison (2007), Gagné (2015), Kindt (2016), Tor (2017), and from a comparative perspective, Metcalf (2015).…”

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“…3I use the term ‘theology’ here in one of the stronger senses suggested by Eidinow et al (2016) 3–4, as signifying ‘determinate and explicit expressions of particular beliefs about gods’ (4). Because of the nature of the two poems analysed in this article, I shall focus particularly (but not exclusively) on the ethical dimension of theological discourse, that which concerns beliefs about the relationship between the gods and human life (rather than simply the nature of the divine itself).…”

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KNOWLEDGE, SUFFERING AND THE PERFORMANCE OF WISDOM IN SOLON'SELEGY TO THE MUSESAND THE BABYLONIANPOEM OF THE RIGHTEOUS SUFFERER

Johnston

2019

Camb. class. j.

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This article offers a comparative reading of Solon's Elegy to the Muses (fragment 13 West) and the Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, focusing on the interplay of literary form and theological content. It argues that in both poems, shifts in the identity and perspective of the poetic voice enable the speaker to act out, or perform, a particular vision of humanity and its relationship with the divine. The comparative analysis improves our understanding of both texts, showing for instance that Solon's elegy is a highly sophisticated attempt to articulate a coherent vision of divine justice and the human condition. It also sheds light on the particular modes in which ancient literature and theology interact in different contexts, and how this interaction could affect audiences.

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“… 53 On B93, see Tor (2016) with references to further scholarship. Robbiano (2006) 125–26 relates Parmenides’ talk of ‘signs’ in B8.2 to the mantic scheme of a divinity who issues signs that require interpretation. …”

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Language and doctrine in Parmenides’Way of Reality

Tor

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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As early as Plato and as recently as current scholarship, readers of Parmenides have diagnosed tensions of one sort or another between his ontological views and the language through which he expresses those views. In the first instance, this article examines earlier claims for such tensions and argues that they are predicated on problematic assumptions concerning Parmenides’ ontological commitments or his strictures regarding the use of language. In the second instance, however, it argues that Parmenides’ Way of Reality does indeed confront us with tensions between language and doctrine, that these tensions are more pointed and sustained than scholars generally recognize and that they can be identified independently of specific or determinate elaboration of Parmenides’ precise ontological views. This analysis discloses a reflective preoccupation with, and a consistent attitude towards, the scope and limitations of human language. Parmenides persistently evinces his awareness that his description of what-is proceeds through expressive measures that are imported with difficulty from a different domain and, consequently, are limited, indirect and often figurative. The article closes by pointing to a meaningful (but partial) affinity between Parmenides and those Platonists who placed their own ultimate philosophical and ontological principle beyond the expressive reach of words.

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