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SAPERE XXIX - In Praise of Asclepius
(Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2016)
In the middle decades of the second century AD, the acclaimed orator Aelius Aristides wrote a number (eight in all) of prose hymns to traditional Greek gods and thereby demonstrated that the cults of these gods had not yet ...
SAPERE XVI - On the daimonion of Socrates. Human liberation, divine guidance and philosophy
(Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2010)
Plutarch’s dialogue On the daimonion of Socrates is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion: A narrator from Boeotian Thebes tells his Athenian friend how ...
SAPERE XXIV - On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination
(Mohr Siebeck Verlag, 2014)
Synesius' essay De insomniis ('On Dreams') inquires into the meaning and importance of dreams for human beings and treats themes – most of all the relationship of humans to higher spheres –, which for religiously- and ...