(J.D.) Mikalson Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 302. £60. 9780199577835.

Tor, Shaul

doi:10.1017/s0075426912001036

J. Hell. Stud.

2012

DOI: 10.1017/s0075426912001036

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(J.D.) Mikalson Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 302. £60. 9780199577835.

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“…47 46 A synthesising approach is adopted in perhaps the most significant contemporary works on Plato and religion: Mikalson (2010); Van Riel (2013); Lefka (2013). See also Tor (2012), who has criticised Mikalson's work precisely for these reasons. It also means that I will generally tend to avoid referring to the author 'Plato', whilst exploring the dialogues.…”

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

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This book sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods. A close reading of the later dialogues shows that the two families of gods are routinely deployed to organise and structure Plato's accounts of the origins of the universe and of humanity and its social institutions, and to illuminate the moral and political ideals of philosophical utopias. Vilius Bartninkas argues that the presence of the two kinds of gods creates a dynamic, yet productive, tension in Plato's thinking which is unmistakable and which is not resolved until the works of his students. Thus the book closes by exploring how the cosmological and religious ideas of Plato's later dialogues resurfaced in the Early Academy and how the debates initiated there ultimately led to the collapse of this theological distinction.

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(J.D.) Mikalson Greek Popular Religion in Greek Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Pp. xii + 302. £60. 9780199577835.

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