Philosophy and Salvation in Greek Religion / / ed. by Vishwa Adluri.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Adluri, Vishwa,; Bernabé, Alberto,; Brisson, Luc,; Burkert, Walter,; Bussanich, John,; Finamore, John,; Herrero de Jáuregui, Miguel,; Lenz, John,; Menn, Stephen,; Sattler, Barbara,; Schmitt, Arbogast,; Slaveva-Griffin, Svetla,
• HerausgeberIn: Adluri, Vishwa,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten , 60
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 p.)

Ever since Vlastos’ “Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought,” scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention to its theological, cosmological and soteriological dimensions remains onesided. Yet, philosophers continue to discuss thinkers such as Parmenides an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Contents
• Philosophy, Salvation, and the Mortal Condition
• Salvation for the Wanderer: Odysseus, the Gold Leaves, and Empedocles
• Self-Determination and Freedom: The Relationship of God and Man in Homer
• Parmenides’ Proem and Pythagoras’ Descent
• Ὁ Πλάτων παρωιδεῖ τὰ Ὀρφέως Plato’s Transposition of Orphic Netherworld Imagery
• The Eleusinian Mysteries in Pre-Platonic Thought: Metaphor, Practice and Imagery for Plato’s Symposium
• Plato’s Soteriology?
• From Politics to Salvation through Philosophy: Herodotus’ Histories and Plato’s Republic
• Rebirth Eschatology in Plato and Plotinus
• Memory and the Soul’s Destiny in Plotinus
• Between the Two Realms: Plotinus’ Pure Soul
• Iamblichus, Theurgy, and the Soul’s Ascent
• About the Contributors
• Bibliography
• Index of terms