Plato and Divination

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Departmental Papers (Classical Studies)
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Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity
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Classical Literature and Philology
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Plato uses the idea of divinatory knowledge as a metaphorical descriptor for a variety of kinds of daytime, waking knowing. What unites these examples is that they all include discussion of a kind of knowing that cannot account for itself, and that is tentative, imagistic and non-discursive. These metaphorical uses can further be illuminated by his more detailed discussion of divinatory knowledge itself in Timeaus.

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2014-01-01
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Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
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