Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 343 p)
ISBN:
1417551909
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9004122648
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9047401069
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9781417551903
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9789004122642
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9789047401063
Series Statement:
Philosophia antiqua v. 89
Content:
Articles in this volume, orginally presented at the 1998 Symposium Hellenisticum in Lille, discuss theological questions that were central to the doctrines of the dominant schools in the Hellenistic age, such as the existence of the gods, their nature, and their concern for humankind
Content:
Introduction / Dorothea Frede et Andre Laks -- Aristotelian Theology after Aristotle / Robert Sharples -- The Origins of Stoic God / David Sedley -- Theodicy and Providential Care in Stoicism / Dorothea Frede -- God and Human Knowledge in Seneca's Natural Questions / Brad Inwood -- Epicurus as deus mortalis : Homoiosis theoi and Epicurean Selfcultivation / Michael Erler -- "All Gods are True" in Epicurus / Dirk Obbink -- Plutarch and God : Theodicy and Cosmogony in the Thought of Plutarch / John Dillon -- Sesto Empirico e l'astrologia / Emidio Spinelli -- The beginnings of the end : Philo of Alexandria and Hellenistic Theology / David Runia
Note:
Available to subscribing member institutions only
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Papers presented at the 8th Symposium Hellenisticum, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France, 1998
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Introd. in French; one paper in Italian
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004122648
Additional Edition:
Print version Traditions of theology Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789047401063
