Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Vilius Bartninkas

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Vilius Bartninkas, Vilniaus Universitetas, Lithuania

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: April 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781009322638
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009322638
Creative Commons:: This content is Open Access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/creativelicenses

Subjects:: Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Classical Studies (General), Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
Series:: Cambridge Classical Studies

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This book sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods. A close reading of the later dialogues shows that the two families of gods are routinely deployed to organise and structure Plato's accounts of the origins of the universe and of humanity and its social institutions, and to illuminate the moral and political ideals of philosophical utopias. Vilius Bartninkas argues that the presence of the two kinds of gods creates a dynamic, yet productive, tension in Plato's thinking which is unmistakable and which is not resolved until the works of his students. Thus the book closes by exploring how the cosmological and religious ideas of Plato's later dialogues resurfaced in the Early Academy and how the debates initiated there ultimately led to the collapse of this theological distinction.

Winner, 2024 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise, Heidelberg University

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy
pp i-i

Cambridge Classical Studies - Series page
pp ii-ii

Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Figures and Tables
pp ix-x

Preface and Acknowledgements
pp xi-xiii

Abbreviations
pp xiv-xviii

Introduction
pp 1-27

Chapter 1 - Plato’s Theogony
pp 28-86

Chapter 2 - Plato’s Anthropogony and Politogony
pp 87-141

Chapter 3 - Plato on Divinity and Morality
pp 142-206

Chapter 4 - Cosmic Religion in the Early Academy
pp 207-248

Conclusions
pp 249-252

References
pp 253-267

Index Locorum
pp 268-282

Subject Index
pp 283-286

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