Our Divine Double / / Charles M. Stang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Stang, Charles M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 1 line illustration
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Narcissus and His Double --; 1. Reading Plato’s Many Doubles --; 2. Thomas, Who Is Called “Twin” --; 3. Syzygies, Twins, and Mirrors --; 4. Mani and His Twin - Companion --; 5. Plotinus and the Doubled Intellect --; 6. Whither the Divine Double? --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674970168; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674970168
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Charles M. Stang.

What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.