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Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Series page 4 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Dedication 7 Contents 9 List of Figures and Tables 11 Preface and Acknowledgements 12 List of Abbreviations 16 Introduction 21 0.1 Religion and Gods 23 0.2 Cosmology and Gods 29 0.3 The Aims and Scope of This Book 40 Chapter 1 Plato’s Theogony 48 1.1 The Two Theogonies of the Timaeus 49 1.2 Introducing the Ouranian God 57 1.3 Ouranos and the Origins of the Cosmic Gods 64 1.4 The Cosmic Cult-Image 71 1.5 The Traditional Gods and the Biological Framework 74 1.6 Timaeus, the Poets and the Orphics 82 1.7 The Double Identity of Gods in Later Plato 87 1.8 Conclusions 104 Chapter 2 Plato’s Anthropogony and Politogony 107 2.1 To Whom Does the Demiurge Speak? 108 2.2 The Younger Gods and Anthropogony in the Timaeus 116 2.3 Plato’s Society of Gods 124 2.4 Critias the Mythmaker 127 2.5 The Patron Gods and Politogony in the Critias 137 2.6 Divine Legislation in the Laws 151 2.7 Conclusions 159 Chapter 3 Plato on Divinity and Morality 162 3.1 The Elitist Ideal of Godlikeness in the Timaeus 163 3.2 The Egalitarian Ideal of Godlikeness in the Laws 177 3.3 Moral Virtues and Cult Practice in Magnesia 182 3.4 The Traditional Gods

Author

VILIUS BARTNINKAS

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