Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes

Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9789004443549
ISBN-13 : 9004443541
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Download or read book Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Platonist philosopher and priest of Apollo at Delphi, Plutarch (ca. 45-120 CE) covers in his vast oeuvre of miscellaneous writings and biographies of great men virtually every aspect of ancient religion, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Egyptian, Persian. This collection of essays takes the reader on a hike through Plutarch’s Religious Landscapes offering as a compass the philosopher’s considerations on issues of philosophical theology, cult, ethics, politics, natural sciences, hermeneutics, atheism, and life after death. Plutarch provides a unique vantage point to reconstruct and understand many of the interesting developments that were taking in the philosophical and religious world of the first centuries CE.


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