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Contents 6 Introduction 8 Notes 21 Bibliography 23 Part One: Myth, Divination, and the Pre-Platonic 26 Chapter One Was Homer’s Circe a Witch? 28 Circe the Goddess and Magic 29 Homer and Magic? 31 The Rhabdoi 33 The Pharmaka 35 Circe’s Beasts 40 Circe: Deeds and Descriptions 42 Circe’s Morality 45 Drug Morality 47 Necromancy 48 Sexual Morality 50 Our Conception of a Witch? 53 Conclusion 56 Notes 57 Bibliography 63 Chapter Two The Oracle as Intermediary 66 The Reason of Myth 68 The Oracle at Delphi 75 Expropriation 78 Conclusion 83 Notes 84 Bibliography 89 Chapter Three The Roots of Life and Death in the Homeric Hymns and Presocratic Philosophy 94 The Tension of the Lyre: The Ambiguous, Living Logos of Apollo and Hermes 97 Generative Liminality: Demeter, Persephone, and Aphrodite 103 Notes 118 Bibliography 123 Chapter Four The Intelligibility of Difference: Anaxagoras’ and Lugones’ Ontologies of Separation 128 Introduction 128 Anaxagoras’ Holistic Pluralism 130 Nous and the Problem of Dualism 133 Nous and the Two Moments of Cosmogenesis 134 Atemporal Cosmology 136 Models for Separation and Mixture in Anaxagoras 140 Curdled Emulsion: Lugones’s Model of Difference without Split-Separat

Author

Jessica Elbert Decker,Danielle A. Layne,and Monica Vilhauer

Language

EN