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Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 9 Introduction 10 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE 15 CHANGES IN RELIGIOUS MENTALITY? 20 'ANCIENT WISDOM’ AND 'COSMIC HIERARCHY’ 23 PART I Ancient wisdom 34 CHAPTER 1 Tracing the origins: Ancients, philosophers and mystery cults 36 VARRO AND ANCIENT WISDOM 38 MYSTERY CULTS AND SECRECY 46 PHILOSOPHY AND ANCIENT WISDOM 54 CHAPTER 2 Plutarch of Chaeronea: ‘History as a basis for a philosophy that has theology as its end’ 57 ON THE FESTIVAL OF IMAGES AT PLATAEA 59 ON ISIS AND OSIRIS 64 THE HISTORY OF RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION 74 CHAPTER 3 Numenius: Philosophy as a hidden mystery 81 MASTERS OF CONCEALMENT IN PHILOSOPHY 82 'PEOPLE OF RENOWN’ 87 CHAPTER 4 Dio Chrysostom, Apuleius and the rhetoric of ancient wisdom 93 DIO'S BORYSTHENITICUS 94 APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES 99 PART II Cosmic hierarchy 108 CHAPTER 5 Towards the pantheon as the paradigm of order 110 POSIDONIUS AND THE NATURAL HIERARCHY 118 'NATURAL RULERS’ 121 KINGSHIP: VIRTUE AND HIERARCHY 123 THE PANTHEON AS THE IDEAL HIERARCHY 127 CHAPTER 6 The Great King of Persia and his satraps: Ideal and ideology 131 MAXIMUS OF TYRE 134 PSEUDO-ARISTOTLE, ON THE WORLD 142 AELIUS ARIS

Author

PETER VAN NUFFELEN

Published

2011

Language

EN